Acta's B2B Data Platform Selected by Industry Leaders; Global Leaders Adopt Acta for Data Integration.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000

Acta Technology, Inc., the leader in business-to-business (B2B) data caching, announced today that it continues to see rapid global adoption of its eCommerce Data Platform, the first and only solution designed to packaged and speed the delivery of the back-office data essential for B2B eCommerce and analytic applications.

Companies who have recently purchased components in the platform include Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, McDATA Corporation, Moore Business Forms, Inc, Samsung Semiconductor, and Valero Corporate Services Company. Acta's worldwide success in selling its platform underscores the growing need for B2B data integration, a key technology component for businesses which are buying, selling and collaborating online. Industry analysts have sized the market for B2B data integration at $15 billion (cumulative) by 2005.

"While continuing to process core transactions, e-business excellence requires that both aggregate and near real-time data be readily available to trading partners," said Barry Wilderman, Senior Vice President of META Group's Application Delivery Strategies service. "We believe that vendors like Acta, with its eCommerce Data Platform, are introducing a required new generation of data caching and analytics."

First to Market in Emerging Category

The Acta platform resolves one of the principle issues in eBusiness today: that back-office systems were not designed to meet the data demands of B2B eCommerce and analytic solutions. Those demands include speed, scalability, and access to both the real-time and historical data locked away in multiple back-office systems. By staging real-time and historical data from multiple systems in data caches, the Acta platform allows companies to deliver the data that is needed, when it is needed, both inside and outside the enterprise.

The Acta platform consists of ActaWorks(tm) an award-winning data movement-and-management server, and eCaches(tm), a suite of packaged data caches that speed the delivery of back-office data in specific subject areas of eCommerce and business intelligence. The solution thus provides a single platform for rapidly and scalably delivering key enterprise data both inside and outside the enterprise.

Acta is the recipient of three recent industry honors. Acta was recently chosen by UPSIDE Magazine as one of the industry's Hot 100, its annual list of the world's best private companies. Additionally, Acta won a DM Review World Class Solutions Award for its work with Albemarle Corporation, a leading chemical company. Hurwitz Group, a leading research firm, recently ranked Acta as the leading vendor for moving and managing enterprise resource planning (ERP) data from SAP (NYSE:SAP).

About Acta Technology, Inc.

The Acta eCommerce Data Platform is the first and only solution designed to make enterprise data eCommerce-ready for all channels in the Networked Economy. With Acta's highly scalable data platform, enterprises can maintain a real-time, online dialogue with customers and partners- providing them the critical information they need for transactions and business analysis.

Acta partners with leading vendors offering enterprise resource planning (ERP), front-end eCommerce, and analytic solutions. The company's 150+ customers include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Shell, Monsanto, and other leaders in the Global 1000. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Acta has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, the Netherlands, and Zurich. Sales and partnership inquiries should be directed to Acta's toll-free phone number 888/613-3282. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.acta.com.

eCache and ActaWorks are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.