Acta Bolsters Worldwide Growth With Three Key Appointments; First Mover in Emerging B2B Category Announces New VPs for Engineering, North American Sales, and Worldwide Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000 Acta Technology, Inc., the first and only provider of a data platform designed to deliver the back-office data essential for business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) eCommerce and analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. , announced today three key management appointments. Acta, which recently announced second quarter sales for its platform throughout the U.S. and in Europe, announced new Vice Presidents for Engineering, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Sales, and Worldwide Services:
-- Chuck Altomare (Vice President of Engineering). Altomare
comes to Acta with more than 20 years of engineering and
leadership experience. Prior to joining Acta, he worked for
ten years at Informix Software, Inc., where he managed over
400 employees. Chuck will drive Acta's engineering department
to build a world-class team.
-- Jeff Fiedler (Vice President of North American Sales).
Fiedler brings more than 20 years experience in sales
management and operations in the electronics, biotechnology
and computer industries. As Vice President of North American
Sales, Jeff will head Acta's sales efforts in that region.
Fiedler has filled two director-level regional staffing
positions to complete Acta's sales management team.
-- Ken Breit (Vice President of Worldwide Services). Breit
will drive Acta's professional service relationships with
customers globally. He was most recently Director of
Professional Services at Visionael where he managed the
company's worldwide efforts for professional services,
pre-sales engineering, technical support, and training.
"Our three new VP appointments signal our ongoing commitment to securing the resources we need for rapid worldwide growth," said Acta CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Carol Mills Baldwin. "Altomare, Fiedler and Breit bring a wealth of talent and experience in their respective domains. These announcements complete our executive team." 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 an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics. 2. Expert in or using analysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner. 3. Psychoanalytic. solutions. Those demands include speed, scalability, and access to both the real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. 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. Acta is the recipient of three recent industry honors. In June, Upside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside Magazine chose Acta for the Hot 100, its annual list of the world's best private companies. Also in June, Acta won a DM Review World Class Solutions Award for its work with Albemarle Corporation Albemarle Corporation is chemical company with corporate headquarters in Richmond, Virginia and operation headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is a globally recognized specialty chemical manufacturing enterprise. , a leading chemical company. HurwitzGroup, a leading research firm, recently ranked Acta as the leading vendor for moving and managing enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) data from SAP (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :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. Headquartered in Mountain View, Acta have 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. |
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