Acta Technology Announces Expansion of Data Management Access for a Broad Range of Enterprise Uses.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2001

Acta Extending Data Integration Solutions for Oracle

Applications, Siebel, J.D. Edwards OneWorld, SAP R/3

and Supply Chain Management Applications

Acta Technology, Inc., provider of the first real-time data integration platform that provides enterprise data for analytic, supply chain, eCommerce, customer relationship management and eProcurement uses, today announced data management solutions that deliver fast deployment and quick Return-on-Investment (ROI) for users of Oracle Applications, Siebel, J.D. Edwards OneWorld, SAP R/3 and supply chain management solutions, further expanding the breadth of Acta's data integration platform.

Acta provides a suite of pre-packaged data applications, called eCaches, that cache critical data and business logic providing bi-directional, content-specific data and the relevant business rules for functional uses across an enterprise. New eCaches from Acta include:

-- The Sales eCache for Oracle Applications supports analysis of information
such as revenue by product and geography, sales trend and forecasting, customer
behavior and sales campaign effectiveness allowing for better decision-making
through increased business understanding.

-- The Siebel eCache delivers rich data integration capabilities between Siebel
applications and SAP R/3, including orders, customers, products, deliveries,
invoices, and their reference data to reduce implementation timescales and
enable a single view of customer information.

-- The Production Planning eCache for analysis and identification of
bottlenecks and constraints in the factory, compare and track historical
production metrics to better manage scheduling, balancing and execution in
manufacturing facilities.

-- The Strategic Sourcing eCache for insight into supplier performance,
enabling effective supplier selection and volume allocation, and eases
purchasing management to effectively manage supplier contracts. Combined, the
Production Planning and Strategic Sourcing eCaches improve Supplier
Relationship Management (SRM) and drive supply chain efficiencies.

Acta has expanded their ability to extract, integrate, manage, cache and provide data from a wide variety of enterprise systems, including Oracle Applications, Siebel, SAP R/3, J.D. Edwards OneWorld, legacy, PeopleSoft, and a range of enterprise application integration (EAI) solutions. This breadth enables Acta to provide batch and real-time data from a single environment for use in business intelligence, data warehousing, analytics, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and eCommerce applications.

Benefits of Cached Data

Acta customers cite the following benefits of cached data:

-- Improved performance times for customer queries

-- Secure, reliable data access outside of their critical

enterprise systems

-- Lower cost of deployment and maintenance as Acta's

solutions are easy to customize and manage allowing

internal resources to be used more efficiently

-- Real-time or batch data management choices to meet

specific data management needs

"Using our proven caching technology has provided huge returns for our customers in areas of faster responses to customer queries, using fewer resources to deploy and manage solutions, and delivering data management solutions to their end users faster than any other possible method," stated Phil Brotherton, Acta Vice President of Marketing. "To minimize time to deployment and deliver a high performance, reliable and secure solution, customers are deploying proven best-in-class solutions, like Acta, for seamless integration and to turn their corporate data into a business asset. They are making better decisions and reacting to changing business requirements faster, increasing their competitiveness in the marketplace."

Acta eCaches -- an Integral Part of a Complete Data Integration

Platform

The Acta Data Integration 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 and integration of back-office data in the areas of sales and marketing, finance and operations, inventory and purchasing and manufacturing and distribution. Acta's data integration platform combines the benefits of data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) with the real-time aspect of a direct-connect solution and Acta's proven data caching capability.

About Acta Technology, Inc.

Acta provides the industry's first and only real-time data integration platform to drive today's new generation of real-time analytic, supply chain management and sell-side eCommerce applications. With Acta's highly scalable data platform, enterprises can maintain a real-time, online dialogue with customers, suppliers, employees and partners, providing them with the critical information they need for transactions and business analysis.

Acta partners with system integrators and leading vendors offering enterprise resource planning (ERP), sell-side eCommerce, analytic and enterprise application solutions. The company's 200+ customers include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Shell, Monsanto and other leaders in the Global 1000. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., Acta has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Rotterdam and Zurich. Sales and partnership inquiries should be directed to Acta's toll-free phone number 1-888/613-3282. For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.acta.com.

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