Actuate Strengthens Sales Management Team with Two Executive Appointments.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. -- Dave Armstrong Appointed as VP of North American Operations North American operation Surgical oncology Radical surgery of a 'frozen pelvis', consisting of radical en bloc resection of the uterus and urinary bladder. See 'Frozen pelvis.'. Cf 'All-American' and 'South American' operations. and John Maxwell John Maxwell may refer to:
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 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. Applications, today announced that it has named Dave Armstrong to the position of vice president, North American operations and John Maxwell to the position of vice president, international operations. Both executives will report to Ilene Vogt, Actuate's senior vice president of worldwide operations. Armstrong will be responsible for sales in Actuate's North American operations while Maxwell will be responsible for sales and day-to-day operations in the Asia Pacific, European and Japan regions. Armstrong brings nearly two decades of field operations experience to Actuate, most recently serving as vice president of worldwide sales at HyperRoll and vice president and managing director at PeopleSoft. During his tenure at PeopleSoft, he successfully rebuilt the company's western regional management, sales and customer service organizations, significantly improving the company's financial and operational performance. Prior to PeopleSoft, Armstrong was vice president of worldwide sales for One Touch Systems, where he was responsible for growing revenue five-fold in 2 years. Armstrong has also held positions at 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) , Openvision Technologies and Oracle. "Actuate's unique approach to solving the problem of information access for 100% of users represents a tremendous market opportunity," said Armstrong. "I look forward to helping realize that potential in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ." Maxwell brings almost 20 years of valuable international sales, operational and financial management experience in the enterprise software market to Actuate. He was most recently executive vice president and general manager at Sagent for their Americas and Asia Pacific regions, where he was responsible for increasing Sagent's market share and contribution margins for non-US geographies, including establishing a 40% market share in Japan. Prior to his tenure at Sagent, Maxwell held various international sales and management positions at Autodesk, Borland, Reportsmith and KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen . "The market for enterprise reporting applications has yet to reach its potential outside North America," said Maxwell. "I am excited to implement Actuate's strategic initiatives globally and drive increases in market share in Asia Pacific, Japan and Europe." "With Dave and John now on board, Actuate will benefit greatly from their deep operational experience," said Ilene Vogt, Actuate's senior vice president of worldwide operations. "Their leadership talents and management skills will be instrumental in taking our global sales performance to the next level, ensuring that our sales force is well positioned to meet our customers' demand for solutions that enable 100% adoption of information throughout their organizations." 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 Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. that empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems 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 2,900 customers globally in a range of industries including financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , 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. Copyright(C) 2005 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. 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