Actuate Names Mark Coggins as New Senior Vice President of Engineering; Key Executive Appointment to Accelerate Technology Vision and Product Roadmap.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)--Oct. 20, 2003 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 world leader in scalable Business Intelligence Applications, today announced that it has named Mark Coggins to the position of senior vice president of engineering. Coggins will report to Pete Cittadini, Actuate's 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. and president, and will be responsible for global product development, product management, quality engineering and developer communications. Coggins brings over 20 years of software development and product management experience to Actuate. Most recently, he was a vice president of engineering at VeriSign, where he was responsible for VeriSign's core Public Key Infrastructure platform and associated applications. Prior to that, he was founding vice president of engineering of a start-up in the customer relationship marketing (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) space, later assuming responsibility for all product management and marketing activities as vice president of products. Mr. Coggins also served as vice president of development and product marketing at Interactive Development Environments (IDE) where he brought seven major products to market, garnering three product-of-the-year awards in the process. He has held other positions in engineering and marketing management at software firms including Netscape Communications and Hewlett-Packard Company. He has earned two degrees and a Phi Beta Kappa Phi Beta Kappa: see fraternity. Phi Beta Kappa Leading academic honour society in the U.S., which draws its membership from college and university students. The oldest Greek-letter society in the U.S. Key from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. and is the author of two mystery novels set in the Silicon Valley. "Actuate has an impressive track record of industry firsts, including server-managed spreadsheet reporting, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. reporting and complete Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. support that have delivered clear value to customers, and I look forward to continuing that technology legacy," said Coggins. "The opportunity for Actuate's Information Application Platform to be ubiquitous is huge because the underlying infrastructure is easily integrated into every corporation's technology stack A Technology stack refers to the layers of components or services that are used to provide a software solution or application. Traditional examples include the OSI seven layer model, the TCP/IP model and the W3C technology stack. ." "Mark brings to Actuate a wealth of experience in bringing leading-edge technology to market that effectively addresses the pain of the customer base," said Pete Cittadini, Actuate's CEO and president. "Mark's seasoned experience and technology vision will play a key role in continuing to accelerate the adoption and strengthen the leadership of Actuate's Information Application Platform." 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 Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. 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, lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 2,100 direct customers and 300 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 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. Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. e.Reporting and e.Spreadsheet are trademarks of Actuate Corporation. Other company names and trademarks are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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