Actuate Strengthens Leadership in Asia; Appointments of Two Industry Veterans Brings Deep Industry Knowledge to Actuate's Japan and Asia-Pacific Regions.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)--April 8, 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 empowering enterprise users with Information Applications, today announced the appointment of Yasuhide Kojima to Actuate Country Manager for Japan, and David Runacres to Actuate Sales Director for Asia Pacific. These key appointments signal Actuate's increasing commitment to supporting the company's Asian customer base and further developing Asian operations. In his new role, Kojima is tasked with adding key Japanese prospects to Actuate Japan's strong customer list as well as strengthening relationships with the leading Japanese IT vendors. Kojima has over 33 years of experience in high technology in Japan, and has built successful sales organizations for the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Japan Kansai Region “Kansai” redirects here. For the airport, see Kansai International Airport. The Kansai region (関西地方 and JDEdwards, Japan. Kojima most recently served as president of Mercury Interactive For another company with a similar name, see Mercury Computer Systems. HP Mercury (formerly Mercury Interactive) is a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard that is a market leader in automated software quality assurance and offers products in other areas such as diagnostics, , Japan. He will report to Ilene Vogt, Actuate's senior vice president of worldwide operations. Kojima holds a degree in Physics from Nagoya University Nagoya University (名古屋大学 Nagoya daigaku , Japan. Runacres comes to Actuate with almost 20 years of expertise in IT sales and business development for a number of multinational companies including Foursticks and Sequent Computer Systems. As Vice President of Asia Pacific for Business Objects, Runacres was responsible for the fastest growing division of the company worldwide. He will report to Ilene Vogt, Actuate's senior vice president of worldwide operations. Runacres holds a degree in Applied Science and Computing from the Chisholm Institute Chisholm Institute is a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Institute located in the south east Melbourne and Westernport Bay areas in Australia. It provides adult education in a number of areas including the arts and humanities, hospitality, information technology, mechanics of Technology. "Yasuhide Kojima and David Runacres bring to Actuate their proven track records for success, including a long history of running profitable organizations that have grown rapidly in size and scale," said Ilene Vogt, senior vice president of worldwide operations at Actuate. "Most recently as president of Mercury Interactive, Japan, Yasuhide quadrupled revenues between 1999 and 2002 and established the company as a leader in its space. David was David Was (born David Weiss, 26 October 1952, Detroit) is, with his stage-brother Don Was, the founder of the influential 1980s pop group, Was (Not Was). Reviewed by The New York Times a vice president of Asia Pacific at Business Objects where he tripled quarterly sales revenues during his tenure over a two-year period. Both men bring a wealth of experience to our Asia Pacific operations and truly understand the needs of the local markets." "Japan is a huge opportunity for Actuate" said Yasuhide Kojima, "I don't see any other offerings within this space that will be able to rise to the challenge." "Actuate provides the only Information Application Platform that provides internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation support for localized Information Applications in all of the countries that make up our territory," said David Runacres. "I am pleased to represent Actuate's best of breed technology in the Asia Pacific region, where I see tremendous opportunity for growth." About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the world leader in empowering enterprise users with Information 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 Business Performance Management (BPM) dashboards, Information Portals as well as business analytic, enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. and spreadsheet reporting applications. Information Applications built with Actuate can empower 100% of an organization's user community inside and outside the firewall, and thereby allow 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 alternatives, Actuate's Information Application Platform has been proven to offer the best performance, highest scale and lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 2,000 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 the financial services, pharmaceutical, insurance, logistics and government industries among other sectors. 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 www.actuate.com Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. Other company names and trademarks are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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