Actuate Offers First Unified Business Intelligence Platform to Serve 100% of the Enterprise.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2003

Actuate 7 Allows Organizations to Meet a Variety of Employee,

Customer and Partner Information Requirements through the Deployment

of a Single Unified Platform

Actuate Corporation (Nasdaq:ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting, today announced that with the addition of Actuate Analytics, (see related announcement 'Actuate Delivers Multidimensional Analytics to Support Power Users' 12/15/03) Actuate 7 offers organizations the industry's first unified Enterprise Reporting Applications platform to centrally manage and deliver multidimensional cubes, ad-hoc queries, interactive spreadsheets and Web reports. This powerful new platform facilitates broad user adoption of reporting and analytic applications while centralizing the deployment and management of multiple Enterprise Reporting applications, thereby reducing hardware, software and maintenance costs.

Increasing employee productivity, improving corporate accountability and growing revenue are top priorities for most organizations today. A company's ability to quickly disseminate critical information to employees, customers, and partners can directly affect the performance of every department in an organization. Until now, companies have needed to deploy multiple Business Intelligence tools to effectively satisfy the diverse information needs of all employees, customers and business partners. Users have been required to learn how to use complex analytic tools and/or traverse multiple technology solutions in order to obtain meaningful information.

Actuate 7 is an Enterprise Reporting Application Platform that allows IT departments to develop multiple reporting and analytic applications that effectively meet the information requirements of users with vastly different roles and skills sets. With the recent addition of Actuate Analytics, Actuate 7 enables employees, customers and partners to access and interact with critical information using their preferred format, including interactive Web reports, fully functional spreadsheets, ad-hoc queries and multidimensional analytics. Through a single-platform approach that can be deployed on a single server or a cluster of servers, organizations are able to cost-effectively distribute personalized information to a diverse user base, which in turn can improve corporate performance.

"Using Actuate's Information Application Platform, Gyrus ENT was able to solve two major business problems," said Beth Barnes, IT Business Process Manager for Gyrus ENT. "We have a remote sales force that needs up-to-date information about customers, what their sales are, and how they are performing versus quota. By utilizing Actuate's technology for web-based reporting, we have enabled our sales force to have access to this information. We have also been able to replace paper reports, which were expensive to mail. The second problem was that we wanted to produce a consistent view of data across different departments, allowing a broad base of users to see a 'single version of the truth.' Through the flexibility of the Actuate solution, we are able to deliver Excel spreadsheets and enterprise reports via a single BI infrastructure, ensuring consistency while lowering our BI deployment costs."

"Employees, customers, partners and executives have a vast spectrum of information needs," said Nobby Akiha, vice president of marketing for Actuate Corporation. "In order for IT departments to meet all of the reporting and analytic demands on an organization, companies need to be able to serve up a collection of Enterprise Reporting Applications that users want. Our unified platform delivers critical information in an array of formats appropriate for all users while reducing IT expenditures."

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting. 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 create reporting and analytics applications that scale to empower 100 percent of their user community, inside and outside the firewall. Enterprise Reporting Applications improve operational performance across a range of business functions including financial management, sales, human resource management, and customer self-service. Enterprise Reporting Applications built with Actuate enable companies to improve their visibility into business processes, enhance productivity, and increase revenues while leveraging existing technology assets. 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 2,200 direct customers and 300 OEM 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. 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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