Actuate Announces General Availability of New Information Delivery Solution.

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2001

Actuate Ships e.Reporting Suite 5, Stresses Easy Integration with

E-Business Platforms and Support for Java, LDAP and XML 

Actuate(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTU), the Information Delivery market leader, today announced the general availability of Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5, the industry's most powerful and complete Information Delivery product line.

Actuate 5 allows companies implementing an e-Business strategy to streamline business processes and build stronger relationships with customers, partners and employees. Actuate 5 provides new and enhanced features including support for Java, LDAP, XML, additional scalability, and advanced tools for making content more interactive and actionable.

"Information Delivery is critical to a company's e-Business strategy and one of four components in an e-Business platform, along with content management systems, application servers and databases," said David Yockelson, SVP of Electronic Business Strategies at META Group. "Moreover, the ability to capture critical data from a variety of sources and publish it to any medium and to any number of users (both inside and outside the enterprise) while making it actionable will separate leaders from followers."

Organizations today are shifting an increasing number of business processes to the Web. To build e-Business applications that meet the needs of customers, partners and employees, companies are relying on an emerging set of interconnected components and services that constitute the e-Business platform. Today's e-Business platform includes a Content Management system (for publishing documents and images such as online brochures and one-to-one marketing), an Application Server (for processing transactions), and an Information Delivery solution (for delivering interactive and actionable operational data).

"Actuate 5 has allowed us to improve our performance by utilizing the compression feature -- we have been able to reduce our report rendering time by 40 percent," said Darren Lamb, project manager for California Independent System Operator's (California ISO) e-Business Information Delivery undertaking known as OASIS. "This is essential to our users, as we have energy markets that are updated every ten minutes. Our clients use this information to make business decisions. Our ability to do timely report rendering was a big factor in choosing Actuate.

"We have also utilized the browser scripting control to allow for high-quality graph rendering," said Lamb. "This allows our clients to track the current conditions of the electrical system load and compare forecasted, scheduled, and actual system load data. This data is used by our clients in many ways, including historical tracking to use for future purchasing and scheduling decisions."

Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5

Actuate 5 is the key Information Delivery component of a company's e-Business platform. Actuate 5 allows you to create, manage and deliver secure, perfectly formatted content that is seamlessly integrated with the rest of a company's Web site using operational data from multiple sources (e.g. RDBMS, EJBs, data warehouse, application objects, legacy systems, EAI, etc.). Actuate is used to deliver content such as service level information, transaction histories, performance metrics, manufacturing and distribution status, and customer account information.

Actuate 5 offers a combination of new features that differentiate it from other products on the market:

-- Actuate 5 includes 100% Pure Java content creation and management
facilities;

-- Actuate 5 can call Java Objects, including EJBs, directly;

-- Actuate 5 supports hundreds of thousands (100,000s) of end users;

-- Actuate 5 enables tighter integration with existing LDAP and other
centralized directories to minimize administration expenses even as the
population of users grows rapidly;

-- Actuate 5's e.Analysis option increases the end user's ability to manipulate
and analyze information without the complexity usually associated with analysis
tools;

-- Actuate 5 makes content more interactive and actionable, allowing users to
initiate transactions directly from e.Reports;

-- Actuate 5 delivers information to people via browser without a download (via
DHTML), to a printer (via PDF), or to another application (via XML) -- all from
a single content specification.

"Actuate now offers the most comprehensive product line for developing Information Delivery solutions within an e-Business platform," said Pete Cittadini, Actuate CEO. "The Actuate 5 product line can help companies complete projects ranging from focused e-Business applications to complex and robust mission-critical Information Delivery systems. We combine the advanced technology and expert consulting and implementation services necessary to ease any Information Delivery pain that a company could have. Actuate remains committed to providing the industry's most powerful and functional Information Delivery solution available, and supporting the needs of customer's whose businesses demand an integrated e-Business platform."

Pricing and Deployment Offerings

Pricing for Actuate 5 ranges from $5,000 to $50,000 per CPU depending on the functionality. With Release 5, Actuate has broadened its server-based deployment offerings to cover a full range of customer needs. For example, customers may select the Java reporting engine for embedding in an application server or a more robust solution that supports the ability to deploy large, cached reports including attendant scheduling, archiving, and LDAP-based security. A still more powerful system could support analytic, interactive and actionable content, while the most sophisticated Information Delivery solution would do all of the above plus personalized content deliverable to 100,000s of users.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies, Internet start-ups and packaged application software vendors. Actuate builds solutions for customer applications including e-CRM, e-Procurement and Net marketplaces. Actuate's Information Delivery solutions make it easy to extract operational data from disparate systems and publish secure, interactive and perfectly formatted content that is seamlessly integrated with the rest of a company's Web site. By instantly delivering personalized content to 100,000s of end users -- without downloads -- companies using Actuate can increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer service. Actuate has over 1,000 direct customers and over 100 OEM partners including American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, BMC Software, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Clarify, Enron, Lucent Technologies, WorldCom, PeopleSoft and Siebel.

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.

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