Actuate to Highlight Eclipse BIRT at 2008 IBM Rational Software Development Conference.

BIRT Experts to Deliver In-depth Content on Advanced Customization Capabilities With BIRT to Support Real-World Development Scenarios

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), a leader in Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Reporting Applications and an IBM (NYSE:IBM) Premier Business Partner, announced today that it will showcase BIRT (the Eclipse Foundation open source Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project) at the 2008 IBM Rational Software Development Conference. Sponsors and partners of IBM, including Actuate, will be delivering developer-oriented sessions and exhibiting their latest software solutions at the conference which runs from June 1-5, at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Florida.

Actuate is the only provider of comprehensive deployment support for BIRT, which is fast becoming the most popular open source BI technology with over 3 million downloads to date. All of Actuate's commercial BIRT-based products can be run within Actuate iServer Express and iServer Enterprise server deployments, making them appropriate for projects of any size, both inside and outside the firewall.

At the 2008 IBM Rational Software Development Conference, BIRT experts, including those from Actuate, will present a total of four sessions:

Tuesday, June 3

11:15am: Introduction to Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools 2.2

-Jason Weathersby, BIRT Evangelist, Actuate Corporation

This presentation introduces the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project, a powerful reporting framework that is part of the open source Eclipse initiative. Using BIRT, developers can incorporate reports into their applications without the need for time-consuming custom code, or they can build on and extend BIRT to provide valuable reporting services for their applications and products.

2:15pm: Model Reporting with IBM Rational Software Modeler 

-Michael Hanner, RSA/RSM Product Lead, IBM and Linda Damus, Advisory Software Developer, IBM

This presentation shows how to write custom reports for EMF and UML models using Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT).

Wednesday, June 4

4:15pm: Advanced Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Report Customization

-Virgil Dodson, Evangelist, Actuate Corporation

This discussion focuses on advanced reporting features of the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) Report Designer, including report customization using expressions and scripting, building reports with re-use in mind, and internationalization of report elements.

Thursday, June 5

9:45am: Effective Reporting with IBM Rational ClearQuest Using BIRT

-Sean Wilbur, Software Engineer, IBM

With the release of IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1, the reporting data model has been completely overhauled and now exposes a data pull model. This presents new opportunities in terms of disparate data aggregation, manipulation, and deployment that were very difficult to accomplish before. This presentation covers a few of the high-level tips to make reports do the work and leverage these new features.

BIRT Experts from Actuate will also be on hand to demonstrate the company's BIRT-based products throughout the conference at booth 416. In addition, they will also be demonstrating the new version of BIRT Exchange (http://www.birt-exchange.com), a community site where BIRT developers share ideas, technical tips and code and explore how to build reporting into applications.

For more information on BIRT, please visit http://www.birt-exchange.com.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is dedicated to increasing the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of enterprise data, for everyone, everywhere. Actuate delivers the next generation RIA-ready information platform for both customer and employee-facing applications. The Actuate platform boasts unmatched scalability, high-performance, reliability and security. Its proven RIA capabilities and highly collaborative development architecture are backed by the world's largest open source information application developer community, grounded in BIRT, the Eclipse Foundation's only top level Business Intelligence and reporting project.

Global 9000 organizations use Actuate to roll out RIA-enabled customer loyalty and Performance Management applications that improve customer satisfaction and employee productivity. The company has over 4,200 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector, many of which have a long history of deploying Actuate-based solutions for dozens, or even hundreds of their mission-critical applications. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com.

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