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Monday, 1 March 2005

IDIOM positioned in the niche player quadrant in the Magic Quadrant* for Business Rules Engines

Idiom Ltd, a member of the Investors Guaranty Global Alliance, is pleased to announce its debut in the Niche Player quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s 2005 Business Rules Engine Magic Quadrant. According to Gartner, 'Niche Players' focus on a particular segment of the client base, as defined by characteristics such as size or vertical or project complexity. Gartner also notes that the vendor's ability to outperform or innovate may be impacted by this narrow focus.

Idiom Ltd is a leading participant in the rapidly developing `decision automation' niche (or 'decisioning' as some commentators now refer to it), which recognises that automation of business decision making is a powerful enabler of business agility. Idiom was the first in the industry to develop products specifically to support this important niche. Mark Norton, CEO of Idiom Ltd, comments "We believe that Idiom has led the charge on decision automation as a concept, and, with the IDIOM Decision Suite v3.1, we have the tools and development approaches in the market to demonstrate this".

One particularly important aspect of the 'decisioning' concept is that the decision expert is usually a non-technical user, often culturally or physically remote from the development shop, and perhapa even in another organization. The `decisioning' tool must allow the business user to develop and manage decision rules quite independently from the development of systems and technology, and regardless of the execution environment.

Idiom's 'Decision Manager' is targeted at this specialist non-technical user, and is an easy-to-use self-documenting tool with high user appeal. As Patrick Power, CEO of Power Solutions DTD Ltd (a developer of award-winning health management applications; www.powersolutions.com.au), has recently said - "It's more fun than playing golf!"

IDIOM Decision Manager also meets the demanding technical requirements of IT developers by automatically generating the rules as optimised computer code targeted to the platform of choice, so that even 'performance critical' customers like Cicada Corp. (a global supplier of data management technology and services for major banks, fund managers and stock exchanges; www.cicadacorp.com) are able to implement IDIOM-generated code directly into their high performance systems.

* Magic Quadrant Disclaimer

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted February 2005 by Gartner Inc. and is re-used with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant and does not advise technology users to select only those vedors placed in the `Leaders' quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended soley as a research tool and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner Research 'Magic Quadrant for Business Rule Engines, 2005' by Jim Sinur, February 8, 2005

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