Actuate 6 Wins Worldwide Cross-Industry Adoption; Flexible Platform Supports Applications Spanning 50+ Vertical Industries.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)--Feb. 11, 2003 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 ), provider of the leading Information Application platform, today announced that Actuate 6, the current version of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , has found strong global market acceptance in industries as diverse as automotive and healthcare. Actuate 6 is a platform upon which customers develop and deploy sophisticated information-based applications -- such as KPI KPI Key Performance Indicator KPI Kuwait Petroleum International KPI Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine) KPI Kernel Programming Interface KPI King Pin Inclination (vehicle steering geometry angle) dashboards, BPM analytics or information portals -- that help to lower operational costs and improve operational efficiency across 100% of the corporate enterprise. Within its first six months of availability, Actuate 6 attracted more than 200 new global customers, many with annual revenues greater than $1 billion. During Actuate 6's lifecycle, the company has won multiple individual orders for software and services greater than $1 million. Its customer base now spans a wide variety of industry segments, including: -- Automotive: General Motors, Johnson Controls, Tower Automotive -- Chemicals: Eastman Chemical -- Education: The College Board, Educational Testing Service, University of Pennsylvania -- Entertainment: Vivendi Universal -- Financial services: Deloitte & Touche, ING Aetna Financial, MassMutual Financial Group, UBS Paine Webber -- Government: Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Reserve Bank, State of Wyoming -- Technology: Halifax Corporation, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lockheed Martin -- Healthcare: Baxter International, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Maryland Hospital Association -- Manufacturing: 3M, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Unilever Bestfoods -- Travel: Choice Hotels International, Marriott International, Sabre Holdings -- Utilities: Kansas City Power and Light Many corporations have ultimately deployed multiple mission-critical applications on the Actuate technology platform, often serving separate internal and external user constituencies with differing functionality. Customers on this list include American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. , 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. , Bayer Diagnostics, Citibank, Johnson & Johnson, Marriott Corporation, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Nordstrom, Pacific Gas & Electric, Prudential, Rite-Aid, TRX TRX Transceiver TRX Transaction TRx Total Prescription TRX Token Ring Switch TRX Transmit and Receive , Visa and Wells Fargo Wells Fargo armored carriers of bullion. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1147] See : Protectiveness Wells Fargo company that handled express service to western states; often robbed. [Am. Hist. , among other companies. Actuate 6 was introduced in May 2002 and rapidly became the industry's leading platform for Information Delivery -- providing access, analysis and delivery of corporate information throughout the enterprise and beyond. Actuate 6 is the only platform that can meet the demands of millions of information consumers with high scalability, high performance, 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. . For example, Sabre Holdings Sabre Holdings or Sabre, Inc. is an American travel technology company, encompassing several brands in three global travel distribution channels: travel agency, airline, and direct to consumer. These areas are serviced by TSG's three main business groups. recently selected Actuate 6 because it was the only solution to meet the performance, scalability and reliability requirements needed to serve 400 hosted airlines and more than 60,000 travel agents in 100 countries. Actuate 7, the next generation of Actuate's Information Application platform, is scheduled for release this Spring. About Actuate 6 Actuate 6 enables organizations to provide all their users with the enterprise information they need in the form in which they need it, in a secure, timely, and cost-effective manner. It consists of server products, which enable the generation, management, and secure delivery of reporting content throughout the extended enterprise, and designer products, which enable both professional developers and power users to create reports. Actuate's platform addresses the needs of global corporations as well as packaged application vendors. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation provides the leading Information Application Platform upon which Global 9000 organizations and packaged software vendors create mission-critical Information Applications. These applications include Business Performance Management (BPM) dashboards, Information Portals as well as business analytic, enterprise reporting and spreadsheet reporting applications. Information Applications built with Actuate empower 100% of an organization's user community inside and outside the firewall, and thereby allow companies to increase their business agility, improve customer and partner relationships, adhere to corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. policies, and increase revenues while leveraging existing technology assets. When tested against other alternatives, Actuate's Information Application Platform has been proven to offer the best performance, highest scale and lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 2,000 direct customers and 300 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 in the financial services, pharmaceutical, insurance, logistics and government industries among other sectors. The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California South San Francisco is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 60,552 at the 2000 census. with operations around the globe. Note to Editors: Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. e.Reporting and e.Spreadsheet are registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation. All other products and corporate names referenced are trademarks of their respective companies. 2003, Actuate Corporation |
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