Benefits Consulting Firm Watson Wyatt Chooses Actuate For Information Delivery.Business Editors 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.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002 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 Information Delivery market leader, today announced that Watson Wyatt Partners, the European arm of a global consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a focusing on human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. management, has chosen the Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5.0 for electronic delivery of reports to its clients and employees. Watson Wyatt is initially using Actuate to distribute formatted statements detailing pensions, benefits and compensation status to its own employees via the web, eliminating the need for vast amounts of printed documentation. The new system is scalable enough to support hundreds of thousands of users and will offer quicker access to the full range of Watson Wyatt products. Watson Wyatt chose Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5.0, the latest version of Actuate's Information Delivery platform, to deliver information to its clients, as well as its own 2000 European employees. Actuate was chosen as the company's Information Delivery platform due to its ease of use and because it requires no formal end-user training. HR tasks such as administrating pensions and benefits are typically highly paper-intensive. With Actuate, Watson Wyatt will not only reduce reliance on paper documents, but will also deliver improved customer service. Users have a single log in to view Watson Wyatt-branded reports, served up by Actuate's e.Reporting Server on demand. Alternatively, e-mail alerts can be used to automatically notify users when new information is available, delivering web links to quickly take users to the relevant reports. Security at the individual user level for each page ensures that end users can easily view personal information in confidence. Melvin Brandman, head of IS and a partner at Watson Wyatt, said: "The Actuate implementation is allowing us to operate much more efficiently. After the success of implementing Actuate's e.Reporting Suite in-house for automating benefits reporting, we have rolled out the service to our European client base. Actuate will benefit Watson Wyatt's customer offering enormously, ultimately saving time in reporting processes." Alan Hamilton, managing director of Actuate UK, commented: "Actuate is uniquely able to offer scalability of up to hundreds of thousands of users, and also to provide profiled benefits statements in a clear and personalized format. Worldwide, we are seeing strong demand for online information delivery in the personal benefits sector, and Watson Wyatt is the first large provider to offer such a service in the UK using Actuate technology." The Actuate e.Reporting Suite is a native web solution that requires no end user training. It supports multiple output formats including DHTML See Dynamic HTML. DHTML - Dynamic HTML , PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and Excel compatible spreadsheets. In version 5 of the Actuate e.Reporting Suite, Actuate added support for Java, including Enterprise JavaBeans See EJB. (specification, business, programming) Enterprise JavaBeans - (EJB) A server-side component architecture for writing reusable business logic and portable enterprise applications. EJB is the basis of Sun's Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). (EJBs) and directory-based security (supporting LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. ). These capabilities have proven to be a very valuable asset for web application developers within the world's biggest companies, delivering vital information to customers, partners and employees, and for leading OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and vendors, who continue to increase their use of Actuate software. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is the leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies and packaged application software vendors. Actuate provides the most effective platform for retrieving business information from corporate databases and delivering interactive Web pages and Excel spreadsheets to customers, partners and employees. Its infrastructure software is the foundation for applications such as client reporting, key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. , CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , and e-Procurement. Actuate content is seamlessly integrated into corporate Web sites and packaged applications and can be printed and used to exchange data with other applications. By instantly delivering personalized content to 100,000s of end users -- without downloads -- companies using Actuate can increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer service. Actuate has over 1,600 direct customers and over 200 OEM partners, including almost thirty percent of the Fortune 1000. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at www.actuate.com. Note to Editors: Actuate is a registered trademark of Actuate Corporation. e.Reporting is a trademark of Actuate Corporation. Other company names and trademarks are trademarks of their respective companies.(c) 2002, Actuate Corporation |
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