BIRT Races Past One Million Downloads.

Actuate, Founder of BIRT, Drives Broad Adoption of Open Source Business Intelligence

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Reporting Applications, today announced that BIRT, the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools open source project which Actuate founded and co-sponsors at the Eclipse Foundation, has surpassed one million downloads within two years of its first release. BIRT is the only top-level Eclipse project focused on Business Intelligence. Actuate is an Eclipse Strategic Developer and leads the BIRT Project Management Committee.

Actuate has leveraged its 11 plus years of experience in commercial Business Intelligence and reporting to help grow the open source Business Intelligence and reporting community. In addition, by providing indemnification, training, maintenance and support for BIRT, and by supplying a full suite of products based on BIRT - including design environments for professional developers and power users, as well as industry-leading, enterprise-ready deployment infrastructure - Actuate has enabled organizations to confidently and easily deploy BIRT for highly scalable, mission-critical applications.

"BIRT has become a driving force in open source Business Intelligence and reporting. Reaching one million downloads within two years of its first release indicates the high demand for flexible reports that can be easily designed and quickly deployed with any application," said Pete Cittadini, CEO and president, Actuate Corporation. "Leading global market intelligence firm IDC values the market for standalone open source software at $1.8bn in 2006, and most applications built have a need for reporting capabilities. At 1M downloads, we've just begun to scratch the surface in addressing this enormous market."

"The community has played a critical role in the success of BIRT with active participation in developing, testing and extending BIRT, and using the technology in ways we never anticipated," said Mark Coggins, senior vice president of Engineering, Actuate Corporation. "The fact that major software vendors such as IBM, BEA, Borland and Zend have incorporated BIRT into their products lines is a good indicator of the technology's maturity and production-readiness."

"BIRT represents best in class technology for reporting and is fully integrated into our Enterprise Resource Planning system, CORE. The BIRT functionality within CORE enables users to create a report from within an application, and publish it to collaborate with other users," said Jon Smith, president, RPC Software. "BIRT is working well for us and we are looking to migrate our current business reports and forms from Jasper and XSL-FO based technology to BIRT."

Actuate Kicks Off BIRT Live Event Series

The first in this series of events will be BIRT Live Day, designed to help Java developers and report developers get more out of their deployments of BIRT. BIRT Live Day will be held on August 15th, the third day of the Actuate International User Conference in Las Vegas. The day will be packed with 11 technical sessions on developing with BIRT, integrating BIRT with Java applications and enabling end user reporting with BIRT. It will also provide BIRT developers an excellent opportunity to network and learn from each other's experiences.

Developers are invited to register for the event at: www.actuate.com/birtlive.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation, the leader in Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Reporting Applications, enables organizations to develop solutions that optimize corporate performance. Actuate is the founder and co-sponsor of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools), the leading open source Eclipse Foundation BI reporting project. Applications built on Actuate's open source-based platform provide all stakeholders inside and outside the firewall, including employees, customers, partners and citizens with information that they can easily access and understand to maximize revenue, cut costs, improve customer satisfaction, streamline operations, create competitive advantage and make better decisions.

Actuate has over 4,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, 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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