Acta Technology Announces Worldwide Certified Systems Integrator Network; Acta Establishes Partnerships With Industry-leading ERP Data Warehousing Systems Integrators.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 1999--

Acta Technology, Inc., a leading provider of data warehousing solutions for ERP applications, announced today the formation of its worldwide Certified Systems Integrator (CSI) Program aimed at providing system integration and consulting services for all phases of Acta system implementations including strategy definition, project management, integration of Acta's products with ERP applications as well as end-user knowledge transfer.

The CSI program complements Acta's Professional Services organization and enriches its customer offerings by leveraging the domain expertise of consulting companies, providing knowledge of business issues unique to geographic regions, as well as providing end-to-end solutions and integrations. System integration partners that have completed Acta's certification program include BASE Consulting Group, Oakland, Calif.; Ernst & Young LLP, with offices worldwide; Intelligent Solutions, Birmingham, England; Root Consulting, Iselin, N.J.; Sense Consulting, St. Louis, Mo.; and Sysix Technologies, Chicago, Ill.

"Acta is the clear market leader in ETL solutions for businesses with extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) applications such as SAP R/3 and PeopleSoft," said Phil Maloney, vice president of sales for Sysix Technologies, a full-service integrator of information technology (IT) solutions. "Based upon ease of use, cost, and most importantly, satisfied customer references, Sysix chose Acta to complement its data warehouse solutions by adding Acta's best-of-breed technology to its portfolio," Maloney said. "By utilizing Acta's product line, Sysix has clearly demonstrated its ability to offer quicker-to-market data warehousing solutions to our clients."

Added Jim Wirth, co-founder and managing director of sales and marketing at BASE Consulting Group, "The demand for better access to the data being processed and stored by ERP packages is significant. Acta's products have been very well received in the marketplace as a solution for providing access to this data, and we look forward to working with our clients to rapidly implement ERP-based data warehouse solutions."

As a Certified Systems Integrator partner, companies receive extensive training on ActaWorks, Acta's award-winning ERP-to-data warehousing ETL tool, as well as Acta's RapidMarts, prepackaged, "out-of-the-box" warehouse solutions that include a target schema, source-to-target mappings and transformations that handle change data capture, hierarchy extraction, error recovery and other complex data warehouse processes.

"Acta's CSI program complements our Professional Services group and enriches our customer offerings by leveraging specific domain expertise of companies who understand the business and technical challenges of successful data extraction, transformation, and warehousing solutions," said Opinder Bawa, Acta's senior director of Professional Services. "The program is designed to provide our customers with access to the support and expertise required during every phase of the implementation process and beyond, with the end goal of delivering complete, end-to-end decision support solutions that customers can use to extend their competitive advantage. CSI's are an integral part of our successes, helping our customers build sound business solutions while Acta provides the core expertise of our product lines."

About Acta Technology

Founded in October 1996, and headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Acta Technology is the data warehouse industry's first vendor focused exclusively on providing enterprise data warehouse solutions for packaged client/server applications. Initially focused on SAP AG (NYSE:SAP) and PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT), Acta's solutions, which have been purchased by over 60 companies in eight countries, include pre-packaged data marts, called RapidMarts, built around the industry's only extraction, transformation and loading tool, ActaWorks, architected from inception to be very tightly integrated with ERP systems. Acta is an independent software vendor (ISV) participating in the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP) and PeopleSoft's Global Alliance Program.

Privately held, Acta is funded by Greylock Limited Partnerships, Norwest Venture Partners and US Venture Partners. Acta customers include Chevron, Church & Dwight, the Arm & Hammer Company; FX Meiller, Guinness Maxtor, Monsanto, Sanofi Winthrop, S-B Power Tools, a division of Bosch GmbH; and Shell Chemical and Company. For more information, visit Acta's World Wide Web site at http://www.acta.com.

Acta, ActaWorks and RapidMart are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. SAP, R/3 and all SAP product and service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.