Acta Technology's Data Integration Platform Selected by De Beers; De Beers Selects Acta as Global Standard for Integrating Data.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2002

Acta Technology, the creator of the first data integration platform to combine real-time and batch data movement, announced today that De Beers, the largest diamond mining company in the world, has implemented ActaWorks(TM), an extraction, transformation and loading tool and the core component of Acta's Data Integration Platform, to deliver business intelligence from a multitude of systems in a deal worth more than $700,000.

De Beers, headquartered in South Africa, selected Acta as part of its commitment to install a standard data platform across its global enterprise.

"The decision to use ActaWorks as the key data integration platform will impact a number of strategic initiatives within the Group and positively affect the delivery capabilities of IT, helping to provide the correct information wherever and whenever it is needed," said Kevin Burford, IT executive, De Beers.

"De Beers intends to use ActaWorks to ensure enterprise wide data integrity and consistency, regardless of back-end or front-end systems," said Marc Scheepbouwer, marketing director at GBI, Acta Technology's African distributor. "De Beers did not want to be constrained by its choice of technology at the front-end or back-end. By choosing ActaWorks and installing it as a critical architectural component, De Beers gains freedom of choice when selecting solutions, as well as a platform to facilitate the integration of legacy or other system data."

"De Beers' primary interest in ActaWorks is its dynamic warehousing capabilities, inheriting data structure logic regardless of the source; its ability to access the application layer of multiple ERPs including JD Edwards and its ability to conduct secure transactions within the ERP system on a real-time basis using the Internet," said Tim Daniels, VP EMEA, Acta Technology. "These are our core strengths and have been recognized as pivotal to delivering business benefits to our other customers including Unilever, IBM and Hitachi Europe."

The Acta Data Integration Platform consists of ActaWorks, a powerful next generation extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool with industry-leading performance, and eCaches(TM), a product suite of pre-packaged batch and real-time data movement and business logic for analytics and other data intensive integration projects like customer relationship management and supply chain management. Acta eCaches focus on Finance and Operations, Sales and Marketing, Manufacturing and Distribution, Purchasing and Inventory.

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 (OTC:CRZBY) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Monsanto (NYSE:MON), 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, Calif., and international headquarters in London, Frankfurt, and Paris.

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