Actuate and IBM Deliver Flexible Approach to Service Oriented Architecture; Actuate to Contribute Banking-Oriented Business Services to IBM SOA Business Central.

LAS VEGAS -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications and an IBM Banking Cluster Partner, today announced that it is deepening its long standing relationship with IBM by contributing business services to SOA Business Central, IBM's catalog of business services based upon a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

SOA is a software design approach that takes the discrete business functions contained in enterprise applications and organizes them into interoperable, standards-based services. These services can be combined and reused in enterprise applications and business processes to meet business needs, enabling enterprises to more effectively integrate data and applications for customers, partners and suppliers.

Actuate will draw on its history of SOA readiness to deliver meaningful business services that IT departments can utilize to align more closely with business requirements. Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform has already been deployed in banks across the world to provide an SOA-ready architecture that enables applications to be built in a flexible, loosely coupled, componentized fashion. Actuate's SOA approach enables banks to effectively keep up with customer needs, evolving business processes, stringent regulatory requirements and strategies to maximize competitive advantage.

The IBM SOA Foundation provides customers with the necessary software to build a service oriented architecture. Customers using Actuate with IBM Middleware are already taking full advantage of a true services-oriented infrastructure, and the benefits of such an approach are applicable to an increasing number of business challenges. Already a part of IBM's Banking Front Office solution set, Actuate intends to contribute to IBM's SOA Business Central by offering a wide array of heterogeneous, vendor-neutral business services that will drive the future implementation of banking technology.

"We leverage Actuate together with IBM WebSphere to deliver customizable business services to over one thousand Consumer Service Providers, Billing and Merchant business partners via CheckFree Client Connect," said Kevin McDearis, CIO, Software Division, CheckFree. "Our clients leverage the flexible SOA-based portal and reporting components we have developed on top of Actuate and IBM to tailor Client Connect to their user preferences."

"Actuate's contribution to SOA Business Central will be a valuable one since it will draw upon the company's deep expertise in enterprise reporting and its inclusion in IBM's Banking Front Office solution set," said Sandy Carter, vice president, WebSphere, IBM Software. "Customers like CheckFree using Actuate with IBM Middleware are already taking full advantage of a true services-oriented infrastructure, and the benefits of such an approach are becoming applicable to an increasing number of business challenges."

"Responsive, efficient business processes require flexible IT, and our customers are looking for a simple, standards based approach to SOA. Flexible IT requires SOA-ready business services such as those Actuate is primed to provide, that map business processes to components and optimize them to ensure Actuate and IBM customers get the flexibility

they require," said Pete Cittadini, CEO and President of Actuate Corporation. "Actuate is pleased to contribute to IBM SOA Business Central because we believe this is the future of IT investment."

To Learn More about Actuate and IBM SOA Foundation

IBM PartnerWorld 2006 will feature the SOA LIVE! Focus Session, a half day of SOA oriented sessions which will feature Actuate's VP of Marketing, Nobby Akiha, together with other SOA experts, a guest analyst and other members of the SOA Partner community. This session will be held on Wednesday March 15th, from 2:00pm to 5:30pm in the Breakers G conference room, Mandalay Bay Resort and Conference Center, Las Vegas. Mr. Akiha will also be speaking at a session entitled "Grow Application and Services Revenue with WebSphere and Open Source" which will be offered on Monday March 13th at 12:30pm in the Jasmine E conference room, and also on Wednesday March 15th at 12:30pm in the Banyon D conference room.

Further information on the agenda for IBM PartnerWorld 2006 can be found by visiting: http://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pw2006_index.html

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management Applications that empower 100% of users to achieve breakthrough corporate performance. Actuate provides the most scalable, reliable, flexible and high-performing reporting capabilities for every application in the enterprise. Customers use Actuate to deliver information in context to users inside and outside the firewall as Performance Management and Customer Self-Service applications, managed spreadsheet applications and Java reporting applications.

Actuate has over 3,500 customers globally in a range of industries including banking, insurance, manufacturing, communications, and government. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., with 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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