Arjo Wiggins Appleton Implements Acta Data Integration Platform.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2002

Global Manufacturer Utilizes ActaWorks to Integrate

Critical Business Data From JD Edwards ERP System

for Improved Decision Making

Acta Technology, the creator of the first data integration platform to combine real-time and batch data movement, announced today that Arjo Wiggins Appleton, a global manufacturer and distributor of premium papers and a subsidiary of French based Worms & CIE, has implemented ActaWorks(TM) to extract, transform and load critical business data from its JD Edwards ERP system to the data warehouse to enable up-to-date reporting across its business.

Arjo Wiggins Appleton, headquartered in the United Kingdom, plans to use ActaWorks as the company's global data integration platform to extract data from a variety of disparate systems throughout the company's operations. ActaWorks is a powerful next generation, extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) tool and the foundation of the Acta Data Integration Platform. ActaWorks enables enterprises to rapidly design, deploy and deliver data warehousing and integration projects from any enterprise data source for business intelligence, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and eCommerce applications.

"The decision to use ActaWorks as our data integration platform, will impact a number of strategic initiatives within the Group; helping to provide the correct information wherever and whenever it is needed," said Steve Osmond, IS manager responsible for business intelligence at Arjo Wiggins. "We are considering further extending the project to encompass our shop floor operations which operate on varying and disparate systems in each of our business units -- a task which Acta is proven in time and time again."

"We are currently piloting the reporting system in the UK with a view to expanding the project to encompass hundreds of users across Europe. With Acta's pre-packaged data caches, we can ensure all are served with the business information they require without impacting our ERP system. Our expectation is that we will purchase more of Acta's eCaches as our IT plans unfold," Osmond said.

"This implementation further enforces the needs for ActaWorks in today's enterprise," said Tim Daniels, VP EMEA, Acta Technology. "Providing a single view of the business as and when required based around an infrastructure that can adapt to the changing demands of the business is critical in today's economy. We continue to satisfy this need for global companies such as Guinness, Unilever, GSK and De Beers."

About Acta Technology

Acta provides the industry's first and only batch and real-time data integration platform expanding extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) technology beyond its traditional data warehousing role to more effectively integrate business intelligence (BI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), and eCommerce solutions. With Acta's highly scalable data integration software, enterprises can rapidly design and deploy data flows that provide customers, suppliers, employees, and partners with the critical information they need, faster and at lower cost.

Acta's more than 230 customers include Alcatel (NYSE:ALA), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), CommerzBank (OTC:CRZBY), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (NYSE:MGM), Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT), Pirelli (OTC:PIREY), Unilever (NYSE:UL), and other leaders in the Global 2000. The company partners with leading systems integrators and enterprise software vendors including IBM, Accenture (NYSE:ACN), Business Objects (Nasdaq:BOBJ), Manugistics (Nasdaq:MANU), PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT), SAP (NYSE:SAP) and Siebel Systems (Nasdaq:SEBL). Established in 1996, Acta has corporate headquarters in Mountain View, CA, and international headquarters in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

Note to Editors: eCaches and ActaWorks are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.