Actuate Inks Partnership with Quantum Secure; Partnership Delivers Integrated Reporting on Physical and IT Security Functions Across Thousands of Legacy Devices, Systems, and Locations.

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting Applications, today announced that it has partnered with Quantum Secure, the San Jose, CA based producer of the innovative SAFE Enterprise Physical Security Management solution to deliver extensive reporting capabilities within the mySAFE Portal.

The additional insight stemming from Actuate-based reporting will help organizations to standardize and fine tune corporate-wide physical security policies that affect underlying physical security systems. This visibility will be delivered in a dashboard format to help corporations to mitigate risks in their daily operations, limit inconsistent manual management of cardholder's identities and credentials, ensure compliance with corporate & government regulations and foster integration of IT and physical security in a seamless manner. End users for these reports include Global Crisis Management Teams, CSOs, CIOs, CFOs, Risk Managers and Human Resources Managers.

"By its very nature, Physical Security in any corporate environment is disjointed with multiple technologies and diverse legacy systems. Quantum Secure's partnership with Actuate will ensure a global executive dashboard view of the operating environment seamlessly bringing information from all sources and facilities in a common context," said Ajay Jain, president and CEO of Quantum Secure. "This effective management of corporate risk will result in rapid decision making with significantly less financial and human cost."

Quantum Secure's patent-pending SAFE System is comprised of a suite of six core applications that deliver a wide range of operational capabilities. The applications include Actuate powered mySAFE Portal, a personalized "dashboard" offering easy system monitoring and control and providing analytics with fast & easy report creation functionality. The suite allows users to establish rules, constraints and system preferences for integrated physical security systems such as access control, visitor management, video surveillance, Fire/HVAC systems human resources and information technologies.

"We are pleased to be partnering with Quantum Secure to apply Actuate's flexible reporting technology to the crisis and risk management space," said Nobby Akiha, VP of Marketing at Actuate Corporation. "Disaster recovery, crisis management and security violation tend to be unpredictable areas where 100% adoption of relevant information is crucial in minimizing corporate risk. Actuate's strengths as a company that provides scalable reporting that can be intuitively adopted by anyone are highlighted by this application."

About Quantum Secure

Quantum Secure was founded to satisfy the emerging demand to integrate, coordinate, and strengthen the management of physical security across large enterprises with established infrastructure through a standardized system. As the leading authority in policy based physical security management, the San Jose, CA based company developed its SAFE System which enables users to centrally define, document, deploy and enforce physical security policies across multiple sites and systems. For more information on Quantum Secure, Inc. visit www.quantumsecure.com, e-mail [e-mail], or call (408)-687-4587.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting Applications that ensure 100% adoption by users. Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform is the foundation on which Global 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors develop intuitive, Web portal-like reporting and analytic applications that empower 100% of users with decision-making information. These applications are deployed inside and outside the firewall to improve corporate performance across a range of business functions including financial management, sales, human resource management, and customer self-service. When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform has been proven to offer industry-leading scalability and the lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 3,000 customers globally 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. 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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