Acta Technology Announces New Agreements With Global Customers; First to Market in Emerging Category, Acta Sells eCommerce Data Platform Throughout the U.S. and Europe.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000

Acta Technology, Inc., the first and only provider of a data platform designed to speed the delivery of data essential for both business-to-business (B2B) eCommerce and analytic solutions, announced today that it signed sales agreements in the second quarter with customers in the U.S., Denmark, France and Germany. Among its customers are Alcatel (in France and Italy), the Baylor School of Medicine, Centocor (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)), ADP (France), Enron (NYSE:ENE), IBM (NYSE:IBM; in the U.S. and Denmark), Knoll (Germany), MGM (NYSE:MGM), Montblanc (Germany), and Resonant Commerce.

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.

"Acta's success stems from bringing together two exciting areas--real-time data staging and eCommerce," said Colin White, founder of Data Base Associates. "These combined technologies enable companies to use critical real-time information resources not only for internal analytics to optimize operations across the extended supply chain, but also to provide tighter integration with customers and trading partners for B2B eCommerce. In order to succeed as an eBusiness, companies need to do both."

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.

"Our global sales continue to validate the great need for an eCommerce data platform," said Acta CEO and President Carol Mills Baldwin. "A growing number of businesses worldwide are recognizing the strategic value of being able to share their enterprise information assets--rapidly and scalably--both inside and outside the extended enterprise."

Recent Honors--Leader in B2B eCommerce and data management

Acta is the recipient of three recent industry honors. In June, UPSIDE 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, a leading chemical company. HurwitzGroup, 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 140+ 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, the Netherlands, 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 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.