Actuate Signs Strategic OEM Agreement With ChemWare; Actuate Information Delivery Solution Provides Analytical Laboratories with Valuable Business Data from HORIZON.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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 signing of a strategic 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 agreement with ChemWare, Inc. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the agreement, ChemWare will integrate Actuate with its HORIZON(R) Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS LIMS Laboratory Information Management System LIMS Library Information Management System LIMS Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere LIMS Land Information Management System (Canada) LIMS Logistics Information Management System ). "Having Actuate allows the laboratories to take advantage of best-in-class, web-based Information Delivery technology," said Robert Whitehead, vice president of ChemWare. "Actuate is unique among Information Delivery providers in its ability to integrate seamlessly and deliver secure and personalized information to tens of thousands of users. As the laboratory industry faces enormously competitive pressures and a changing informatics landscape, the value of ChemWare's offering is further leveraged through Actuate." HORIZON LIMS already provides a single, unified data repository for all laboratory records, paving the way for the paperless laboratory. HORIZON offers a convenient, built-in mechanism for mining these records, called the HORIZON PowerGrid(TM). On the backend, Actuate puts advanced data filtering and formatting tools directly in the hands of the end-user. ChemWare's customer laboratories generate as many as 5,000 test reports each day. "ChemWare selected Actuate for its web-based, logic-driven reporting," Whitehead added, "as well as its ability to automate the production and delivery of highly technical, compound documents containing both graphics and text." "The HORIZON LIMS application provides laboratories with the ability to focus on analytical chemistry and not custom programming, with a complete solution for the most highly regulated drug testing communtiy (labs requiring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), an operating division of the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), was established in 1992 by the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act (Pub. L. No. 102-321). , or SAMHSA SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration certification), and among the technology leaders in the broader full-service environmental and clinical testing industries," said John Bow, vice president of the Actuate OEM business unit. "ChemWare solutions provide the necessary flexibility to configure to the needs of the customer to provide critical, timely and personalized data. As a leader in analytic solutions for laboratories, ChemWare's choice to use Actuate as their analytic reporting engine continues to validate Actuate as the vertical market leader in Information Delivery technology across industries." Actuate has more than 250 OEM customers whose products range from applications for electronic marketplaces to customer relationship management to professional services automation See PSA. . These e.Business leaders and packaged software vendors choose Actuate because its software represents the latest in Information Delivery technology, and its e.Services group enables easy integration with existing application infrastructure, thus speeding time-to-market for new products. Further, Actuate's commitment to industry standards, including Java, LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. and 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. , ensures its product will be compatible with today's most prevalent e-Business applications. About ChemWare ChemWare, a North Carolina-based software development company, has provided advanced automation solutions to analytical laboratories since 1987. HORIZON LIMS, ChemWare's flagship product, is an off-the-shelf system pre-configured with industry-specific test methods, instrument interfaces and regulatory reports. HORIZON version 8.0 will be released in October 2002. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies and packaged application software vendors. Actuate provides the most effective platform for retrieving business information from corporate databases and delivering interactive Web pages and Excel spreadsheets to customers, prospects, partners and employees. Its infrastructure software is the foundation for applications such as 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 (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and e-Procurement. Actuate content is seamlessly integrated into corporate Web sites and packaged applications and can be printed and used to exchange data with other applications. By instantly delivering personalized content from tens to millions of end-users - without downloads - companies using Actuate can increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer service. Actuate has over 1,700 direct customers and over 250 OEM partners, including almost thirty percent of the Fortune 1000. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in 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., 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 and e.Spreadsheet are trademarks of Actuate Corporation. Other company names and trademarks are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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