Resolution EBS Receives Key Patent Grant; Covers First Business Rule Technology to Provide Dynamic Interaction.

AUSTIN, Texas -- Resolution EBS, the provider of the only business rules engine (BRE) built from the ground up for highly interactive processes and applications that reduce costs and raise revenue opportunities, today announced that the U.S. Patent Office has issued a patent for Resolution's groundbreaking work in developing the industry's first business rule solution with dynamic interactive capabilities. Taking more than 10 years to develop, it is the first major breakthrough in business rule technology in 20 years.

Resolution's Patent No. 6,965,887, "Rule Processing Methods for Automating a Decision and Assessing Satisfiability of Rule-based Decision Diagrams" describes and protects the innovative approach Resolution has developed to provide this completely new type of business rule solution, the basis for its Resolution Interactive Rules Platform(TM). The priority date for the patent is March 2001.

Patents granted to the company cover the highly original work done in applying an entire branch of mathematics, known as Directed Graph Combinatorics (DGC), to provide an interactive business rule solution that also sports the industry's fastest engine and smallest footprint.

Leading financial services companies, healthcare insurers and manufacturers use Resolution's patented solution to add dynamic interactive capabilities to their call centers, web sites, portals and business processes.

Combinatorics not code

Combinatorics challenges the basic assumption that logic means "If/Then" statements. It is the same branch of mathematics scientists applied to hardware logic, helping them to successfully combine thousands and thousands of logic circuits automatically and efficiently onto tiny pieces of silicon. This breakthrough approach led to the explosive growth of the semiconductor industry and, by extension, the entire computing industry. It also plays a role in the thinking behind the 1965 Moore's Law prediction that chips would continually become smaller, faster and more powerful.

Like chip scientists before them, Resolution used a combinatorics approach, applying it to business logic. The result is that, for the first time ever, business logic can be expressed as data. This enables the logic to be manipulated mathematically: It can be analyzed, organized and combined automatically using patented algorithms. It is complex logic that looks very simple but provides significant benefits that, until now, were unattainable: 360 degrees of interactivity; a small, compact engine that can be deployed on the smallest devices; and a speed of execution that outrivals all competing solutions. No other business rule technology can provide these benefits because they are all based on linear, rigid code.

The strategic importance of dynamic interaction

As companies look to compete in the face of accelerating market, financial, technological and regulatory changes, they are turning to strategies that will give them the flexibility and speed they need to react quickly and intelligently. One such move is to push out organizational operations and applications to the edge of the organization, where customers, partners, vendors and other organizational stakeholders can interact directly with the business. This can significantly reduce the costs of doing business, enhance customer satisfaction as well as create opportunities to increase revenue.

Resolution's patented technology provides 360-degree agility -- Dynamic Interaction(TM) -- within an application or process. This not only provides total mobility within an application or process but also offers guided advice that takes the user to the best choice. Thus, users can "start anywhere and go anywhere," virtually enabling an application to respond to the needs of the individual user. This, in effect, solves edge issues such as the "abandoned cart" dilemma, because the flexibility it provides corresponds to how people actually interact with technology.

Besides flexibility, Resolution offers faster deployment of applications based on its rules technology. Business users create and maintain rules with a much higher degree of independence from IT than ever before. That's because the rules business users generate are, on creation, 100 percent accurate and breakproof. As a consequence, deployment time from rule creation to rule execution is quick, giving companies the speed they need to run responsive, timely, competitive organizations. Resolution's extremely small engine and flexible manager make it the ideal rules solution for ISVs looking to add interactive, easily brandable capabilities to their offerings, without adding a heavy infrastructure requiring massive maintenance, cost and support.

About Resolution EBS

Resolution EBS, Inc., www.resolutionebs.com, enables companies to raise profitability and service levels through its Resolution Interactive Rules Platform (Resolution iR). Resolution provides the unique and patented ability to rapidly provide flexible front office rules-based processes and applications without requiring an army of coders to build and maintain them. Not only is rule creation intuitive and easy, Resolution takes it one step further by totally eliminating code-based rules. By getting rid of rules code, Resolution has eliminated the high cost of managing and deploying that code -- all barriers to organizational agility. With the patented Resolution Interactive Rules Platform, companies streamline mission-critical interactive business activities that have previously eluded automation because of overwhelming, complicated or frequently changing decision logic. Protected by more than 90 patents, Resolution iR enables decision logic to be more understandable and maintainable for the business analyst, scalable and easily integrated for IT, and interactive and portable for the end user.

Resolution, Resolution EBS, Resolution Interactive Rules Platform, iR Platform, iR Manager and iR Engine are trademarks of Resolution EBS, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are used only for identification and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.