Acta and Actuate Announce Strategic Technology Partnership; Joint Solution Unlocks SAP Data for Real-Time Business Information Delivery Over the Internet.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000 Actuate(R) Corp. (Nasdaq:ACTU ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions ACTU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit (Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri) ACTU Association of Catholic Trade Unionists ACTU Australian Capital Territory Union ), the leader in e.Reporting(TM) for e.Business, today announced a strategic technology partnership with Acta Technology, the first and only provider of a data platform specifically designed to package and accelerate the delivery of data for B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business e.Commerce. The goal of the partnership is to provide Fortune 1000 customers a powerful solution for delivering business information from SAP R/3 data sources to the Web. Actuate and Acta made the announcement at the America's SAP Users Group (ASUG ASUG America's SAP Users' Group ASUG Australian Shipping User Group ) 2000 conference in Atlanta. "Our partnership with Actuate will enable the SAP installed base of more than 30,000 accounts to unlock high-value business information contained within SAP systems and publish it through the Web for use by customers, partners and employees," said Acta CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president Carol Mills Baldwin. "By building the solution on the Acta eCommerce Data Platform, we intend to give SAP users a better means to manage, publish and distribute personalized, interactive business information." "Acta provides the right SAP data management software solutions and also extensive SAP experience and the technical knowledge required to close business and guarantee successful customer installations," said Pete Cittadini, president and COO, Actuate. "Close integration of Acta and Actuate products enables both companies to better address the needs of customers requiring a comprehensive SAP-to-Internet business information delivery solution." Acta's data platform, announced in April, consists of 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, and ActaWorksRealTime(TM), an award-winning data movement-and-management server. Actuate's e.Reporting solution is a critical component of the e-business software infrastructure, and is the leading technology for delivering business information over the Internet. The Acta/Actuate technology partnership was formed to allow the rapid deployment of business information over the Internet in the form of rich, interactive Web pages for customers who run their business with SAP applications. The joint solution will offer companies rapid and frequent access to the "heavy data" locked away in multiple back-office systems -- e.g., order status, inventory, product availability, year-to-date purchases, open invoices, related early-payment incentives, and other critical information. As a pioneer in the extraction and movement of enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) data, Acta has helped over 130 companies to liberate their back-office data to compete in the most competitive business markets. Actuate has more than 1,000 customers and its e.Reporting solution is used today by several million people, many of whom are in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and telecommunications industries. e.Reporting is an increasingly common solution within B2B e-business applications and Web sites. About Acta Technology 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 eAnalytic solutions. The company's 140+ customers include IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , 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. About Actuate Corp. Actuate Corp. has established e.Reporting as the practice of publishing high-value business information on a Web site for use by customers, partners and employees. e.Reporting enables a company to enhance its e.Business site -- beyond brochureware A Web site that advertises a product but contains only the equivalent of a paper brochure with no interactivity. The Web is not encumbered by the size of paper and offers the ability to show endless views and details of a product, make recommendations based on user input, download demos and transaction capabilities-with post-transaction content such as client stock portfolio reports, client statements and performance metrics, for the purpose of creating a more loyal customer base. A critical component of the Internet infrastructure, Actuate powers e.Business sites for Global 2000 companies and Internet start-ups including Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Charles Schwab, American Express, MCI/Worldcom, US West, HotJobs.com and Healtheon. Internet vendors reselling Actuate include Ariba, Aspect Development, BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. , Clarify, PeopleSoft and Siebel. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, and has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at http://www.actuate.com. Note to Editors: Actuate, Live Report Documents, Report Encyclopedia and ReportCast are registered trademarks of Actuate Corp. e.Report, e.Reporting, Live Report Extensions, ReportBlast, SmartSearch, Transporter, Virtual Report Distribution and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Reports are trademarks of Actuate Corp. All other products and corporate names referenced are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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