Acta Technology Reaches 75th Customer Milestone.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 1999--

Bayer Inc., Hitachi, Marconi Communications and

Siemens Medical Systems are among the latest companies

to select Acta's ERP-to-data warehousing solutions

for use with SAP(TM)R/3(TM) and PeopleSoft(TM)

Acta Technology, Inc., a leading provider of packaged ERP data warehousing solutions announced today it has more than 75 customers.

Acta reached this milestone after just 15 months of shipping product. In the past quarter alone, Acta secured 25 new Fortune 1000 customers, setting a single quarter record for the company. Customers who recently purchased Acta's solutions include Bayer Inc., Marconi Communications and Siemens Medical Systems in North America and Hitachi, Post and Telekom Austria and Weleda AG in Europe.

Acta's ERP-to-data warehouse software solutions consist of RapidMarts, packaged data warehouses that can be rapidly deployed to address specific areas of business analysis such as sales or cost analysis. RapidMarts provide an "out-of-the-box" solution that includes a target schema, source-to-target mappings and transformations that handle change data capture, hierarchy extraction, error recovery and other complex data warehouse processes.

As an active partner in the SAP (NYSE:SAP) Complementary Software Program and the PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT) Global Alliance Program, Acta products tightly integrate with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. In addition, Acta closely partners with leading Business Intelligence and OLAP (BI/OLAP) vendors.

"Partnering with BI/OLAP leaders such as Hyperion, Cognos, Business Objects and Brio was pivotal to our reaching this milestone so quickly," said Acta President and CEO Carol Mills Baldwin. "We partner with a BI/OLAP vendor in virtually every one of our customer opportunities. Our SAP and PeopleSoft customers benefit from end-to-end ERP-to-OLAP metadata integration and the resulting rapidly deployable reporting and analytic solutions," said Baldwin.

"Acta and Hyperion have taken the lead in helping customers maximize their return on investment in SAP R/3 by leveraging integration between Hyperion Essbase and Acta RapidMarts for a wide range of analytic applications," said Bill Clark, senior vice president of marketing for Hyperion (Nasdaq:HYSL), http://www.hyperion.com. "Acta's customer milestone illustrates growing customer demand for our tightly integrated solution, as corporations intensify efforts to transform their operational data into actionable business information."

"Acta was early to recognize that SAP R/3 users need to consolidate data from R/3 and other sources into data warehouses or marts to enable data analysis for competitive advantage," said Sam Clark, Research Analyst in Meta Group's Application Development Strategies Service. "Acta's packaged solution delivers business value to R/3 installations by enabling rapid deployment of R/3-based decision support systems," Clark said.

About Acta Technology

Acta Technology is the data warehouse industry's first vendor focused exclusively on providing packaged ERP data warehouse solutions. Initially focused on SAP AG and PeopleSoft, Acta's solutions include packaged data warehouses, 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. ActaWorks has been certified by PeopleSoft and SAP BW interface certified by SAP.

Acta is privately held with international headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., and regional headquarters in Frankfurt, London and Paris. Acta's customer list of over 75 Fortune 1000 companies in 8 countries includes 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 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. Hyperion and Essbase are registered trademarks and Hyperion and Hyperion Essbase are trademarks of Hyperion Solutions Corporation. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.