Tuesday November 26, 9:05 am ET

ESI and Business Rule Solutions Partner: Methodology Meets Implementation

Alliance Provides the First Full Aspect Design & Deployment Environment Helps Customers Reduce Development Time, Offers Support, Tools

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 26, 2002-- Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS), whose Proteus(TM) methodology is a recognized leader in the analysis and design stages of business rules systems, and ESI - Expert Solutions International, a leading user-oriented business rules platform vendor, today announced an alliance partnership to provide customers with a combined environment to apply the BRS methodology including RuleSpeak(TM) with ESI's LOGIST rules-based implementation software.

The announcement was made at the 5th Business Rules Forum, where both companies are sponsors and active participants.

The partnership provides organizations with a comprehensive, standardized approach to planning, defining and implementing business rules in their software applications. BRS provides enterprise customers, government agencies and software vendors with proven, business-driven techniques for identifying and documenting business rules as part of a software solution strategy. ESI's LOGIST provides either Business users or even end users, the tools to implement these business rules in production systems with powerful editing, execution, and maintenance tools that are fully compatible with the BRS methodology. ESI and BRS will offer training and guidance highlighting the use of this combined approach to rules in business applications. Both business and technical personnel within an organization can benefit from the combined approach to designing and working with business rules to automate, manage, and personalize business processes effectively.

"Partnering with BRS helps an organization streamline the design and development processes using business rules, and is a significant, strategic step for ESI," said Yoram Romem, President & CEO, ESI. "The combination of BRS' Proteus(TM) well-organized roadmap for business rules requirements and development and ESI's Logist user-oriented rules implementation and management technology, allows customers to easily build the right system and build it fast."

"This partnership reflects our longstanding commitment to provide business-driven, end-to-end solutions based on the business rule approach," said Ronald G. Ross, Principal and co-founder of BRS. "We are very pleased to be working more closely with ESI to exploit the natural fit between the BRS methodology and ESI's Logist, to provide our customers a most advanced unified business rules platform."

About ESI - Expert Solutions International
ESI (www.esi-knowledge.com) is a provider of knowledge-based business optimization and workforce management products. Partnering with major global software vendors worldwide, ESI is an affiliated company of Formula Vision Technologies (TASE:FVT), a spin-off from Formula Systems (Nasdaq: FORTY - news) and a member of the Formula Group, a large IT software group, operating in more than 50 countries.

About Business Rule Solutions, LLC
Business Rule Solutions, LLC (www.BRSolutions.com) is a recognized world leader in the advancement of the business rule approach. Its co-founders, Ronald G. Ross and Gladys S.W. Lam, are internationally acclaimed as the foremost experts and practitioners of business rule techniques and methodology. BRS provides advice, education, consulting, publication and tools for organizations seeking to apply the business rule approach.

Contact:
ESI
Angie Urbach, 877/238-0312
angie@esi-knowledge.com