Actuate 7 Provides Business Users with Seamless Access to SAP Solution Data.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2003

Business Users Query, Analyze and View Reports Containing

SAP Data without Requiring Training

Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTU), the world leader in scalable Business Intelligence Applications, today announced the certification of Actuate 7 for use with SAP(R) Business Information Warehouse 3.0 (SAP BW) via the OLAP BAPI interface (BW-OBI). OLAP BAPIs provide an industry-standard method for accessing SAP BW data via third-party front-end presentation tools and enable connecting the SAP BW server to a wide range of applications with varying OLAP architectures.

Actuate 7 provides access to 100% of SAP solution-based data in SAP BW and mySAP(TM) Business Suite applications, allowing business users to utilize the full potential of the mySAP Business Suite when executing ad hoc queries, creating server-managed web reports or viewing data from portal applications. In addition, Actuate 7 offers Business Intelligence solutions that combine data from multiple SAP and non-SAP sources. Organizations using Actuate's Information Application Platform in conjunction with the mySAP Business Suite are able to increase employee productivity, improve customer relationships and improve the flow of information throughout the organization and beyond. Today's announcement was made at SAPPHIRE(R) 2003 Orlando, SAP's international customer conference.

The current economic climate demands that corporations operate at full efficiency with less staff and provide management with constant visibility into the performance of the organization. These business needs have increased the demand on IT departments to provide timely, accurate data from multiple sources to a broad set of users throughout the enterprise and beyond.

Business managers and executives can use Actuate's self-service interfaces to instantly query current sales data, create interactive reports within minutes, or view real-time business performance dashboards based on SAP and non-SAP solution data. At the same time, Actuate 7 allows IT departments to maintain control over data integrity, security and system performance through the use of Actuate's Information Object Designer.

"A 2002-03 recent META Group survey of 'SAP BW best practices' at Global 2000 enterprises identified a continuing need for more robust reporting," explains Aaron Zornes, senior VP, META Group. "Specifically, our research pointed to pent-up demand for solution alternatives that access the valuable data that has been cleansed, aggregated, and stored in SAP BW. This represents a huge after-market as our research confirms that SAP BW is the largest install base of any full spectrum data warehouse product in the world -- over 5,500 installations in less than 3 years."

The Actuate integration with SAP solutions has been based on SAP integration technologies Actuate's GUIs allow intuitive access to all SAP solution-based data across all functional applications. Actuate 7 gives users access to all data, whether it is standard SAP solution data or a heavily modified version with specific custom tables, which can be combined with data from non-SAP systems. Actuate 7 enables IT managers to more easily create reports, which reduces time-to-market and associated development costs.

"Actuate 7's certification for BW-OBI and its overall integration with SAP BW makes it possible for enterprises to extend their existing SAP solution-based platform by allowing a broader set of users to access valuable SAP information," said Rich Guth, senior director of solutions marketing at Actuate. "In addition, IT departments are off-loaded from the daily requests to develop custom, one-off reports containing SAP solution data. Actuate's Information Application Platform puts the power directly in the hands of the users through self-service access to information they need."

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the world leader in scalable Business Intelligence Applications. Actuate's Information Application Platform is the foundation on which Global 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors create reporting and analytics applications that scale to empower 100 percent of their user community inside and outside the firewall. These Information 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 enable companies to increase their business agility, improve customer and partner relationships, adhere to corporate governance policies, and increase revenues while leveraging existing technology assets. When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's Information Application Platform has been proven to offer industry-leading scalability, the best performance, and lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 2,000 direct customers and 300 OEM partners in a range of industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and distribution services, as well as the government sector.

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 http://www.actuate.com.

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