Leading Japanese Systems Integrator NTT COMWARE Corporation Selects Actuate Information Delivery Solution for Use With 'Smart Pit' Service.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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 to Power Payment Collection Service For More Than 21,000 Japanese Convenience Stores The following is a list of convenience stores organized by geographical location. Stores are grouped by the lowest heading that contains all locales in which the brands have significant presence. 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 leading Japanese systems integrator An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform COMWARE Corporation has selected the Actuate e.Reporting Suite for use with its popular online payment collection service. The decision by NTT COMWARE to power its 'Smart Pit' service with Actuate technology underscores the strong relationship between the two Internet solutions providers and epitomizes the increasing value of Information Delivery technology within today's most advanced e-Business applications. The agreement with NTT COMWARE was brokered by Tokyo-based e-Business solutions reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. , K.K. Ashisuto, which has a strong local reputation and national sales network. The Actuate-enabled Smart Pit service will enable consumers to shop by mail-order and at Internet malls using only an identification card, and to make a payment for the purchase at a convenience store using the same card. The receipt information collected from each convenience store will be delivered daily with Actuate Information Delivery technology from more than 21,000 store locations to Japanese merchants via the Web through the Smart Pit center. The timely and accurate delivery of this information will provide merchandisers immediate verification of payment and ensure quick purchase delivery to the consumers. When implemented Actuate reports regarding purchase payment will be available to more than 3,000 NTT COMWARE customers/merchants. The Actuate Information Delivery solution was selected by NTT COMWARE for its ease-of-use, 100 percent Web architecture, and ability to scale to meet the needs of many thousands of users. Furthermore, Actuate provides NTT COMWARE's Smart Pit with enhanced security and report archiving functionality. "Actuate is infrastructure software that provides vital Information Delivery capabilities for an e-Business platform and is not limited simply to displaying static information," said Actuate Japan president Yuji Chahara. "The Actuate Information Delivery solution supports high scalability and offers quick and systematic report delivery over the Web. With Actuate, companies can reduce costs and improve operational efficiency, while heightening height·en v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens v.tr. 1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify. 2. To make high or higher; raise. v.intr. customer satisfaction and increasing sales. The benefits provided by the Smart Pit service are perfectly matched to Actuate. The decision to utilize Actuate by NTT COMWARE, the largest domestic firm providing total company support with leading-edge information technology, strongly convinces us that our solution has been recognized in the domestic marketplace." Local reseller Ashisuto played a key role in configuring the Smart Pit system, providing significant technological services related to database design, operation management and report development. "We are convinced that the Actuate Information Delivery solution allows Ashisuto to meet quickly and effectively the needs of its customers," noted Taichi Kobayashi, director and technological service general manager of Ashisuto. "We understand that one of the reasons NTT COMWARE selected Actuate, at this time, is due to its particularly high appraisal of the technological support ability for the product provided by Ashisuto. Ashisuto is not focused exclusively on sales, but is devoted to heightening its ability to provide technological support for products. Ashisuto will continue to offer comprehensive proposals that benefit customers as we aim to become the company providing the best support in Japan." About NTT COMWARE With 8,000 IT engineers, NTT COMWARE boasts a proud history of building, maintaining and operating communication processing systems that demand the ability to process large volumes of transactions as well as high quality and high performance, of which major trunk work processing systems in the information communications market of Japan are only a small part. In addition to the know-how for building these major systems, the company provides a total solution as an IT service provider, from consulting to outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. , based on the reliability of its network technology, security technology and advanced ability for handling UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Linux, Java and such. (www.nttcom.co.jp) About K.K. Ashisuto Established in 1972, Ashisuto handles a wide range of package software without favoring favoring an animal is said to be favoring a leg when it avoids putting all of its weight on the limb. A part of being lame in a limb. any particular hardware manufacturer or software vendor. In addition to Oracle products, the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, in the database field, Ashisuto provides system operation and management, security, development support tools, Web infrastructure architecture support tools and software in a variety of other business fields useful to its customers. Ashisuto has also expanded into the software consulting (www.ashisuto.com). 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 The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. 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 (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 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. |
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