Actuate Debuts SmartSheet Security to Customize Spreadsheets for Mass Distribution.

Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet Cost-Effectively Generates Customized Spreadsheet Reports That Are Securely Delivered to Millions of Users Inside and Outside the Enterprise

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance, today announced the availability of Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet, including the new SmartSheet Security Option. Actuate continues its industry leadership in spreadsheet automation and reporting by creating the first solution to cost-effectively secure and distribute analysis-ready, customized spreadsheets which can be delivered to millions of users both inside and outside the enterprise.

Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet gives users information in a format that can be immediately analyzed and helps eliminate mistakes and errors resulting from each user manually inputting data into Microsoft Excel. Companies can use this capability to package and productize information in spreadsheets, offering business partners and customers a value-added service that strengthens their relationships and enhances efficiencies.

"Many of our customers and brokers want to receive information from us in the form of spreadsheets," said Mike Hader, director of IT at Odom's Tennessee Pride. "This is their preferred format for performing in-depth analysis. We have to be able to implement spreadsheets outside the firewall and still ensure that the data is secure. Deploying Actuate e.Spreadsheets give us this capability. End-users, both internal and external, have told us how much faster they are able to do their jobs because they don't have to spend time cutting and pasting information into spreadsheets or creating formulas to perform their analysis."

Building on the company's years of experience providing innovative reporting tools, as well as expertise in creating server-based spreadsheets, Actuate e.Spreadsheet addresses the information quality, information consistency and scalability issues associated with the manual generation of spreadsheets and spreadsheet plug-in solutions. Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet combines the power of an enterprise report writer with the strong foundation of a repeatable blueprint to expand the audience served by analysis-ready spreadsheets.

"Corporations today need data governance whether government regulations require compliance or not," said Dan Everett, research director, business intelligence at Ventana Research. "Although spreadsheets are an essential business tool, their uncontrolled exponential growth makes it difficult for organizations to guarantee the lineage, integrity, and security of data. Actuate e.Spreadsheet enables organizations to centrally manage the data in spreadsheets, which helps companies reduce risks, increase consistency and enforce control policies."

"Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet is truly a breakthrough in spreadsheet automation and scalability," said Jeff Morris, director of product marketing at Actuate Corporation. "Our new SmartSheets securely produce mass customized, data-driven workbooks for millions of users. The architecture is elegantly simple. A single spreadsheet design blueprint drives the queries against source systems in one pass, creating a single master spreadsheet staged on the server. This master catalogue contains the definitions and data for millions of personalized spreadsheets, which users can access on-demand. The result is a solution that generates fully-functional, analysis-ready Excel files without undermining the goals of IT for data control and consistency."

Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet introduces the SmartSheet Security Option, a breakthrough scalable architecture to produce data-driven workbooks. The SmartSheet Security Option executes one query set against enterprise data sources and then manufactures one master catalogue that custom-generates spreadsheets upon request, to support millions of users.

The Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet Designer provides ease-of-use and powerful functionality for Excel power users tasked with supplying spreadsheets to large numbers of users. New features include the Data Range Editor to define dynamic workbook design blueprints and the Data Explorer to simplify data access. The Data Range Editor enables proper expansion, replication and reproduction of formulas and references in each spreadsheet as data expands and contracts. It automates the use of e.Spreadsheet's report functions and creates security locks against groups, ranges and worksheets to establish the permissions for each recipient. The Data Explorer simplifies the definition of queries with runtime and view-time parameters that shape the spreadsheet data.

Availability and Pricing

Actuate 9 e.Spreadsheet includes e.Spreadsheet Designer, e.Spreadsheet Server Option, SmartSheet Security Option and the Actuate iServer Enterprise Reporting Platform. It is available as part of Actuate 9 and pricing starts at $7,500 for 10 users.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance. Actuate provides the most scalable, reliable, flexible and high-performing reporting capabilities for every application in the enterprise. Customers use Actuate to deliver information in context to users inside and outside the firewall as Performance Management and Customer Self-Service applications, managed spreadsheet applications and Java reporting applications.

Actuate has over 3,500 customers globally in a range of industries including banking, insurance, manufacturing, communications, and government. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com.

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