Acta Technology Reports Continued Revenue Growth -- 82% Year-to-year Growth.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2001

Demand continues for enterprise-wide data integration; company

announces new reseller and technology partnerships and aligns sales

team to drive focused partner initiatives

Acta Technology, Inc., provider of the first real-time data integration platform that provides enterprise data for analytic, eCommerce, supply chain and customer relationship management uses, today announced third quarter 2001 revenue growth results, citing 82% growth over the same nine-month period last year. Acta, a privately held, venture-backed company, also reported a revenue increase in the third quarter 2001 over the third quarter of 2000.

"We continue to see demand from companies worldwide for our data integration solutions -- in fact, we received the biggest contract in the history of the company this quarter," stated Carol Mills Baldwin, CEO and President for Acta Technology. "Both current customers and prospects are telling us they must integrate more than just transactions between applications -- they need to integrate the critical data in them -- to fully realize the potential of these enterprise applications."

By using Acta's data integration platform, companies can lower the cost, speed the deployment and improve the business value of CRM, eCommerce, SCM and analytic initiatives. Acta's data integration platform utilizes the power of data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) technology for batch data requirements, and applies it to real-time environments -- all within a single platform. Acta's data caching assures high-performance data access that is always available. Acta also provides pre-packaged data applications that enable rapid, low-risk implementations and deployments.

In Q3, Acta has also announced reseller and technology-based agreements with several partners, which are expected to drive significant future revenue opportunities, including:

-- An agreement with Manugistics, a leading provider of supply chain and
revenue optimization solutions, to integrate and resell ActaWorks the core
integration technology in WebConnect Integrate High Volume Edition (HVE) for
large-scale data transfers for application-to-application integration and data
warehousing

-- An agreement with Business Objects to integrate and resell ActaWorks(TM),
Acta's data movement-and-management server, with the BusinessObjects(TM)
Application Foundation, the new analytic applications framework from Business
Objects

-- A development and technology partnership with Infogain to develop additional
software adapters, using Acta's Adapter SDK, further broadening the integration
capabilities of ActaWorks to enterprise applications and technologies.

Aligning with Partners for Growth

Additionally, Acta has re-aligned their sales teams worldwide, reflecting the growing importance of their System Integrators (SIs), technology and reseller partnerships. Recent changes include:

-- A restructure of the European and North American sales teams

to better align with geographies and leverage ongoing

partnerships throughout Europe.

-- The appointment of John Burns as Senior Vice President of

Business Development, where he will be responsible for

agreements with worldwide partners, focusing on application

growth areas of customer relationship management, supply chain

management and business intelligence.

-- Bill Vergantino will be promoted to Vice President of Global

Sales, replacing Burns. Vergantino has been with Acta for

three years, serving as Senior Director of Sales and Director

of Sales and Business Development. He will have direct

responsibility for the Acta worldwide field organization.

"We're fortunate to have a strong, established presence in Europe with strong demand for real-time data integration. By closely aligning our structure with key partners, we are perfectly positioned to deliver upon the growth opportunity in global accounts," added Mills Baldwin. "Our proven technology delivers long-term business benefits to our customers and partners by enabling them to leverage existing systems and other application investments for lasting, long-term value."

Positioned for Continued Success

Acta's continued success in selling its data integration platform around the globe underscores the growing need for enterprise data integration, a key technology component for businesses who are buying, selling and collaborating online. Analysts have sized the data integration market at $15 billion (cumulative) by 2005.

Companies today are seeing an explosion of data being generated by applications including supply chain, CRM, eCommerce, business intelligence and more. According to the Gartner Group, by 2005 the average enterprise will need to manage 100 terabytes of data and very large enterprises will have to manage over 500 terabytes. Gartner Group also projects that 30 to 40% of IT budgets are being used to integrate applications.

"Our customers are realizing value by increasing their supply chain efficiencies, streamlining their business processes with customers and partners and creating a better understanding of their own business through data analytics for improved decision-making on costs structures, inventory levels, capital management and more," said Mills Baldwin. "The data integration requirements are just now beginning to hit major corporations."

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, eCommerce and customer relationship management 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, CA, Acta has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Rotterdam. 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.

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