Actuate 6 Earns Microsoft Certification Through VeriTest; Ensures Product Reliability and High Availability.Business/Technology Editors 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. & WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE) Oct. 21, 2002-- Actuate Achieves Microsoft Certified for Windows Advanced Server Certification and Prepares for Windows .NET Server 2003 Certification Actuate Corporation (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 Information Delivery market leader, and VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:LIOX) today announced that Actuate's Information Delivery platform, Actuate 6, meets the strict enterprise-level reliability and high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. specifications necessary to earn the Microsoft Certified for Windows 2000 Advanced Server designation. Actuate also has announced early intentions to register for Windows .NET Server certification for Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter Editions. As the exclusive provider of independent testing for Microsoft's Certified for Windows program, VeriTest tested Actuate's Information Delivery platform to ensure it meets Microsoft's strict manageability, reliability and availability requirements for achieving the Microsoft Certified for Windows logo for Advanced Server. Actuate provides the most effective platform for retrieving business information from corporate databases and delivering interactive Web pages and Excel spreadsheets to customers, partners, and employees. Its infrastructure software is the foundation for applications such as client reporting, financial reporting, executive dashboards, business analytics, and e-billing. "Earning Microsoft's Windows 2000 Advanced Server certification allows Actuate to give their customers a high degree of confidence when making these large-scale purchasing decisions," said Ed Adams, Vice President of Product Certification Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance and/or quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in regulations such as a building code and nationally accredited test standards, , VeriTest. "Now that Actuate is certified for Windows 2000 Advanced Server, they are well prepared to undergo testing for Microsoft's new Windows .NET Server 2003 logo. As the exclusive provider of independent testing for Microsoft's Certified for Windows .NET Server program, we look forward to working with Actuate again to certify their product for the Windows .NET Server 2003 platform." Certification results for e.Reporting are available at http://www.veritest.com/go.asp?actuate1. "Actuate 6 is designed to take advantage of the Microsoft 2000 Advanced Server environment's flexibility, offering our customers solutions that can be effectively leveraged across their entire range of Internet properties," said Nobby nob·by adj. nob·bi·er, nob·bi·est Fashionable; stylish. [From nob2.] Akiha, vice president of marketing at Actuate. "This certification is yet another proof point illustrating that Actuate delivers the most interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. Information Delivery platform for companies who need to meet the demands of Information Consumers throughout the enterprise and beyond." "Industry-leading solution providers such as Actuate know their customers look for an independent validation of reliability," said Bob Ellsworth, Director of Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Marketing, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . "Microsoft meets that need with the rigorous Certified for Windows program, ensuring that both Windows 2000 and Windows .NET Server 2003 platforms will provide the best return on investment possible." About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies and packaged application software vendors. Actuate provides the most effective platform for retrieving business information from corporate databases and delivering interactive Web pages and Excel spreadsheets to customers, prospects, partners and employees. Its infrastructure software is the foundation for applications such as client reporting, key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. , CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and e-Procurement that deliver information to communities of information consumers ranging from tens to millions. Actuate content is seamlessly integrated into corporate Web sites and packaged applications and can be printed and used to exchange data with other applications. By instantly delivering personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. content over Web to -- without downloads -- companies using Actuate can increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer service. Actuate has over 1,800 direct customers and over 250 OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, including almost thirty percent of the Fortune 1000. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com. About VeriTest Services from Lionbridge VeriTest, the testing division of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:LIOX), is the premium provider of testing services that enable technology companies to release proven enterprise-scale applications on a worldwide basis. With datacenter-equipped labs in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe and Asia, VeriTest delivers test consulting, test plan development, and test execution services. With VeriTest services from Lionbridge, customers have a single global partner for outsourcing specialized technical services associated with global product releases, including software localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. , quality testing, usability, benchmarking and logo certification. Visit www.veritest.com/mslogos/cfw for more information on Microsoft's Certified for Windows program, provided exclusively by VeriTest. Note to Editors: Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. e.Reporting is a trademark of Actuate Corporation. Other company names and trademarks are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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