Crowe Chizek Selects Corticon as Their Standard for Business Rules Management; Corticon Enhances Crowe Chizek's Straight Through Processing Solution for Risk Management and Compliance in Financial Services.

INDIANAPOLIS & SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Corticon(R) Technologies, a leading provider of business rules management software, today announced that Crowe Chizek and Company LLC has selected Corticon as the integrated Business Rules Management System (BRMS) for Crowe's Straight Through Processing (STP) solution. Crowe Chizek is a part of Crowe Group LLP, one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the United States. In selecting Corticon, Crowe Chizek cited its ability to enable quick, safe, and accurate changes to customers' business rules and processes. E[acute accent]Crowe Chizek's STP solution is designed to increase the amount of automation in core financial services processes such as commercial loan processing. Crowe's STP reduces the time-to-completion and cost-to-completion for work through core bank processes while it reduces error rates and increases customer satisfaction through faster, more reliable processing and approval cycles. Financial services organizations have chosen Crowe Chizek's STP solution so they can gain these operational benefits while simultaneously ensuring that they address operational risk issues such as compliance. Automation of business decisions is a cornerstone to process automation. Crowe Chizek's STP solution utilizes Corticon's Business Rules Management System to automate and manage the business decisions and rules that underlie an organization's processes. E[acute accent]"Corticon is the natural choice for business rules management in our Straight Through Processing solution," said Rory McClure, executive of Crowe Chizek. "Business rules are 1 of the 5 key technology pillars in our STP solution. Business agility and control were key criteria, and Corticon was rated best at safely enabling fast and accurate change in our customers' business rules and processes. As we assessed alternatives, Corticon was the product that our business users found was the easiest to use." E[acute accent]Ranked recently by Gartner in the leader quadrant for business rules management software, Corticon enables business users to create rules using spreadsheet-like models instead of programming code. Corticon is the only business rules management software that provides friendly tools for the business user to analyze the integrity of business rules, find missing business rules, and help eliminate conflicting business rules. As financial institutions and businesses rely more on automation, the demand for business rules management software that business users can control with minimal IT support is increasing. E[acute accent]Corticon's software solution has delivered measurable results in reducing operational costs and risk as well as in increasing organizational agility. In recent projects, this has translated into a ten-fold average reduction in development costs for business decision logic, a ninety-five percent reduction in coding errors, and reducing elapsed time-to-market by eighty-five percent. On a dollar basis, reduced cost-per-transmission has amounted to over $10 million annually while reduced time-to-market and cost per change has amounted to savings of over half a million. A decrease in coding errors has saved as much as $6.5 million annually for clients. E[acute accent]"Our selection by Crowe Chizek as an integral part of their Straight Through Processing solution is particularly rewarding because we were selected after a very thorough competitive analysis," said Mark Allen, co-founder and CEO of Corticon Technologies. "Our new collaboration has already realized field-level success, helping Crowe Chizek win new projects, including major banks on the East Coast."

E[acute accent]About Crowe Chizek -- Under its core purpose of "Building Value with Values(r)," Crowe Chizek and Company LLC (www.crowechizek.com) provides innovative business solutions in the areas of assurance, benefit plan services, financial advisory, forensic services, performance services, risk consulting, and tax consulting. Crowe Chizek, a Crowe Group LLP entity, was founded in 1942. One of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the United States, Crowe also serves clients worldwide as a leading independent member of the Horwath International global professional services organization.

E[acute accent]About Corticon Technologies, Inc. -- Corticon's Business Rules Management System (BRMS) helps organizations eliminate their policy-execution gap; the gap between what executives need to happen ("policy") and what actually occurs ("execution"). Many of the world's most successful organizations rely on Corticon-powered solutions to eliminate operational risk, reduce operational cost, and improve operational agility. Corticon's patent-pending BRMS delivers the industry's only business rules modeling, analysis, and automation that can ensure the consistent, efficient, and reliable execution of a company's business rules and policies. Unlike competitive products that require skilled programmers, Corticon BRMS is as easy to use as a spreadsheet, thus empowering business users and lowering total cost of ownership. Acknowledgement of Corticon's industry-changing solution includes Gartner's positioning of Corticon in the Leaders' Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Business Rules Engines, 2005. E[acute accent]To learn more about Corticon's products, customers, and partners, visit us at www.corticon.com or contact us at 1-650-212-2424.