Acta Technology, Business Objects and Satyam to Host Free Online Seminar On Implementing Management Dashboards On February 26, 2002.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Mountain View, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2002

Seminar to Focus On How a Dashboard Can Integrate the Latest

Reporting, Analytic and Data Integration Software

Into an Enterprise Wide Solution

Acta Technology, the creator of the first data integration platform to combine batch and real-time data movement, and Business Objects, (Nasdaq:BOBJ), the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced today a free webcast on implementing management dashboards. The webcast, which will take place on Feb. 26, 2002 at 8:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, will also include content from Satyam Computer Services, (NYSE:SAY), a diverse end-to-end IT solutions provider. During the webcast, attendees will learn how a management dashboard enables enterprises to perform strategic analysis on large amounts of data from data warehouses and also monitor real-time alerts on critical changes in their business delivered via email, mobile phones or PDAs.

The webcast, entitled "Management Dashboards: Combining Business Intelligence and Data Integration" was designed for IT executives, CIOs, and program managers and will detail how a management dashboard can integrate the latest reporting, analytic and data integration software into a solution that can be delivered in just 60 days. Attendees will learn how a chemicals company increased customer satisfaction by deploying a "Customer Connect Dashboard" that provides real-time data feeds to customers; how a leading disk drive manufacturer uses 3 times-a-day updates to their corporate dashboards to adjust worldwide manufacturing and shipping; and how an imaging company delivered a bi-directional distributor portal, updated daily, as a key component to optimizing their supply chain, saving $4 million in their first year for a 10x ROI.

Jeffrey Coombs, vice president of Market Development for Acta and Leasa Joos, Product Marketing manager for Business Objects will lead the interactive seminar on the critical drivers for implementing a management dashboard.

    --  What:   "Management Dashboards: Combining Business
                Intelligence and Data Integration" online seminar

    --  Who:    Acta Technology's Vice President of Market
                Development, Jeffrey Coombs
                Business Objects Product Marketing Manager,
                Leasa Joos
                Satyam Computer Services' Vice President of Data
                Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Harish Gala

    --  When:   Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2002, 8:30 a.m. Pacific Standard
                Time

    --  How:    Register on the Web now at
                www.acta.com/webcast/wc02010103.htm

About Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions. Business intelligence lets organizations access, analyze, and share information internally with employees and externally with customers, suppliers, and partners. Business intelligence helps organizations improve operational efficiency, build profitable customer relationships, and develop differentiated product offerings.

The company's products include BusinessObjects 2000, the industry's leading integrated business intelligence toolset and platform, and BusinessObjects Analytics, an integrated suite of enterprise analytic applications.

Business Objects pioneered the modern BI industry in 1990 by inventing a patented "semantic layer" that insulates users from the complexity of databases. In 1995, the company was first to focus on enterprise-scale BI deployments and today supports customers with more than 20,000 users. The company moved aggressively to the Internet in 1997 by pioneering the market for BI extranets, a market that it continues to lead today. In 2000, the company delivered the industry's first interactive wireless BI solution. Today, Business Objects continues to innovate, creating and delivering a unique vision for enterprise analytic applications.

Business Objects has more than 15,000 customers in over 80 countries. The company's stock is publicly traded under the ticker symbols NASDAQ: BOBJ and Euronext Paris: code Euroclear France 12074, and included in the SBF 120 and IT CAC 50 French stock market indexes. Business Objects can be reached at 408/953-6000 and www.businessobjects.com

About Acta Technology, Inc.

Acta provides the industry's first and only batch and real-time data integration platform expanding extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) technology beyond its traditional data warehousing role to more effectively integrate business intelligence (BI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and eCommerce solutions. With Acta's highly scalable data integration software, enterprises can rapidly design and deploy data flows that provide customers, suppliers, employees, and partners with the critical information they need, faster and at lower cost.

Since announcing the Acta Data Integration Platform in 2000, the company has received honors from DM Review (DM Review Top 100), Software Magazine (Software 500), Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal (100 Fastest Growing Private Companies list), Computerworld (Top 100 Emerging Companies), Crossroads 2001 A-List award, Upside Magazine (Hot 100 private companies), DM Review (Winner, World Class Solutions), eWeek (Best Practices Award -- B2B Category, Finalist) and Intelligent Enterprise (RealWare Awards -- B2B Category, Finalist)

Acta's more than 230 customers include Alcatel (NYSE:ALA), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), CommerzBank, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Monsanto (NYSE:MON), Shell, Unilever (NYSE:UL), and other leaders in the Global 2000. The company partners with leading systems integrators and enterprise software vendors including IBM, Accenture (NYSE:ACN), Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), Manugistics (Nasdaq:MANU), PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Siebel Systems (Nasdaq:SEBL). Established in 1996, Acta has corporate headquarters in Mountain View and international headquarters in London, Frankfurt, and Paris.

About Satyam Computer Services, Ltd.

Satyam Computer Services Ltd., a diverse end-to-end IT solutions provider, offers a range of expertise aimed at helping customers re-engineer and re-invent their businesses to compete successfully in an ever-changing marketplace. The dedicated and highly skilled IT professionals at Satyam, its subsidiaries and joint ventures work onsite, offshore or offsite to provide customized IT solutions for companies in several industry sectors. Satyam's ideas and products have resulted in technology-intensive transformations that have met the most stringent of international quality standards. Satyam development centers in India, USA, UK, Europe, Japan, Singapore and Australia serve 300 global companies of which nearly 50 are Fortune 500 corporations. The Satyam marketing network spans 35 countries across five continents. Satyam's strategic technology and marketing partnerships, and the need-driven deployment of domain and technology expertise, bring to the customer a range of products and solutions that enhance performance and competitiveness. For more information, please visit www.satyam.com.

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