Actuate Appoints Matt Kuckuk Vice President of e.Services for North American Operations.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)--Aug. 6, 2001 Appointment Signals Actuate's Commitment to Helping Customers Increase Value of Information Delivery Investments 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, today announced the appointment of Matthew D. Kuckuk to vice president of e.Services for North American Operations North American operation Surgical oncology Radical surgery of a 'frozen pelvis', consisting of radical en bloc resection of the uterus and urinary bladder. See 'Frozen pelvis.'. Cf 'All-American' and 'South American' operations. . The selection of Kuckuk, a veteran professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. consultant in the software industry, comes at a time when customers are deploying more high-value, revenue-driving projects and extending the use of Information Delivery solutions throughout the enterprise. In his new role, Kuckuk is tasked with helping Actuate's base of more than 1,300 direct customers maximize the value of their Information Delivery investment. Kuckuk has better than 16 years' experience building successful services organizations; he will report to Ilene Vogt, senior vice president of Actuate North American Operations. "Matt brings to Actuate a proven track record for success, including a long history of running profitable professional services organizations that have grown rapidly in size and scale," said Vogt. "Most recently as vice president of Professional Services at MarketFirst, Matt tripled the group's revenue in just 18 months. Prior to MarketFirst, Matt was a vice president at American Management Systems American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was founded in 1970 as a technology and management consulting firm. It was founded by a group of five former United States Department of Defense officials who worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson , where he built the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. practice from startup in 1992 to one of the major practice groups in this $1.5 billion technology consulting company. He has a wealth of experience with Internet software and CRM applications, and many of his past clients are Actuate partners or in our market niche." "Actuate customers are building advanced, revenue-driving e-Business applications that require a robust Information Delivery solution," said Kuckuk. "To get these projects up-and-running quickly, Actuate provides customers a trained and experienced staff of professional services consultants. We want to lead the market in the skills necessary to work effectively with customers on all their Information Delivery needs, from report design to business process automation to enterprise systems integration." Actuate has seen in recent months a strong, growing customer demand for its e.Services consultants, particularly among financial services customers, such as Merrill Lynch and Metlife, professional services firms, including EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. and Watson Wyatt, and a wide range of government agencies. More customers are engaging Acutate's services consultants to design and deliver integration projects that link Actuate Information Delivery capabilities with their enterprise systems. Typical e.Services projects involve advising customers on the best ways to configure and use Information Delivery technology, and working with them to build more powerful applications based on their business goals. "Matt has extensive experience delivering expert professional services, from management consulting to technology deployment," said Pete Cittadini, Actuate 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. . "The Actuate product line is very horizontal, in that every application aimed at increasing revenue, streamlining business processes or improving customer retention, has a need for Information Delivery. We see huge opportunities for our consultants to use their expertise in Actuate products to help customers turn their data into actionable -- and valuable -- information. Robust services demand is an indicator of the growing awareness in the market for the strategic value of Information Delivery to Global 2000 organizations. Under Matt's leadership, we look forward to an e.Services business that increases in profitability, scale and dependable infrastructure." Kuckuk holds an M.S. in Operations Research operations research Application of scientific methods to management and administration of military, government, commercial, and industrial systems. It began during World War II in Britain when teams of scientists worked with the Royal Air Force to improve radar detection of from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). -- Berkeley and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies and packaged application software vendors. Actuate builds solutions for customer applications including 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, 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. Actuate content can also be printed, exchange data with other applications and accessed using Excel spreadsheets. 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 1,300 direct customers and over 170 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 American Express, AT&T, 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. , BMC Software, Chase Manhattan Corporation The Chase Manhattan Corporation was a bank holding company formed as parent of the Chase Manhattan Bank. During its time as the parent company, it was led in succession by David Rockefeller, Willard C. Butcher, and Thomas G. Labrecque. , Clarify, 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. Note to Editors: Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. e.Reporting is a trademark of Actuate Corporation. |
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