Acta Technology Announces Siebel Validation; Acta Successfully Integrates ActaWorks With Siebel eBusiness Applications.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Acta Technology, the creator of the first data integration platform to combine batch and real-time data movement, today announced that the integration between ActaWorks version 5.2 and Siebel 7, the latest release of Siebel eBusiness Applications, has been successfully validated by Siebel Systems. Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SEBL) is the world's leading provider of eBusiness applications software. This integrated solution allows enterprises to more easily leverage corporate data from multiple systems across analysis, reporting, and other projects and to ensure data consistency across enterprise applications.

ActaWorks is a powerful next-generation extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool and is the foundation of the Acta Data Integration Platform. ActaWorks enables enterprises to rapidly design, deploy, and deliver data warehousing and integration projects across any enterprise data source for business intelligence, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and eCommerce applications.

Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness applications software enabling multichannel sales, marketing, and customer service systems to be deployed over the Web, in call centers, in the field, through reseller channels, and across retail and dealer networks. With this validation, customers of Siebel Systems and Acta can more efficiently integrate data between Siebel eBusiness Applications and their other key systems. Using these solutions together, enterprises are able to simplify complex data warehousing, data migration, and application-to-application data integration to deliver a rapid return on investment by minimizing design, deployment, and maintenance times.

Available today, ActaWorks version 5.2 enables rich, rapid data integration for Siebel eBusiness Applications with other enterprise systems using all available types of data interfaces: metadata, bulk, and real-time. ActaWorks provides a code-free graphical designer interface for all tasks involved in designing, debugging, testing, modifying, and maintaining data integration projects for both batch and real-time. ActaWorks version 5.2 provides the industry's widest selection of prepackaged adapters and native interfaces and reduces the need to write code for data integration projects.

"As a customer of Siebel Systems since 1999, Acta has first-hand knowledge of how Siebel eBusiness Applications enable companies to build dynamic customer relationships," said Carol Mills Baldwin, CEO and President of Acta Technology. "Acta's data integration software enables Siebel Systems' customers to more quickly and cost-effectively integrate their applications and develop data warehouses across the enterprise."

"We believe that with the addition of Acta's data integration capabilities, Siebel Systems' customers will benefit by having a strong tool to integrate Siebel eBusiness Applications with other key systems throughout the enterprise," said Michael Straub, Technical Director of Alliances for Siebel Systems.

Siebel Systems forms alliances with proven technology leaders to deliver tangible business benefits throughout the enterprise. By choosing Siebel eBusiness Applications and validated partner solutions, Siebel Systems' customers can pursue a best-of-class software acquisition strategy and quickly deploy the very best solution available. The Siebel Validation Program applies rigorous technical scrutiny to evaluate the integration of third-party solutions with Siebel eBusiness Applications. Integrations that meet the rigorous standards of Siebel Systems' testing criteria are validated and documented by the Siebel Alliance Program.

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.

Acta's more than 230 customers include Alcatel (NYSE:ALA), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), CommerzBank (OTC:CRZBY), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (NYSE:MGM), Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT), Pirelli (OTC:PIREY), 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), and Siebel Systems (NASDAQ:SEBL). Established in 1996, Acta has corporate headquarters in Mountain View, CA, and international headquarters in London, Frankfurt, and Paris.

Siebel is a trademark of Siebel Systems, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. ActaWorks is a trademark of Acta Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.