e.Bills Service Provider TransPoint to Deploy Web Data Publishing Solution From Actuate.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2000 Actuate(R) 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 leader in e.Reporting(TM) for e.Business, today announced its Web data publishing solution will be deployed by electronic bill presentment and payment See EBPP. (EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) Sending invoices to customers over the Internet. When payment is due, an e-mail is sent with a link to a Web page that contains the billing information and the payment services that are supported. ) service provider, TransPoint. TransPoint -- a joint venture between Microsoft, First Data Corporation and minority equity investor Citibank -- will use the Actuate solution to help billers and consumer service providers (typically a financial institution or Web portal See portal. ) make the most of data generated by their e-bills operation. TransPoint will host the Actuate solution and be able to publish e-bill information, including payment quantities, registered consumer accounts and batch processing (1) Performing a particular operation automatically on a group of files all at once rather than manually opening, editing and saving one file at a time. For example, graphics software that converts a selection of images from one format to another would be a batch processing utility. statistics, to billers and consumer service providers. Actuate's rich rendering and strong authoring capabilities, along with the ability to export content into Microsoft(R) Excel, will enable billers and consumer service providers to better manage their e-bills service. "Part of offering the best e-bills solution means continually looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways for our customers to take full advantage of their e-billing data," said Ralph Young, executive vice president, TransPoint. "This agreement with Actuate further demonstrates our commitment to our biller and consumer service provider clients by offering them state-of-the-art Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. technology." TransPoint delivers richly formatted bills and statements, complete with interactive advertising and marketing messages, to any online consumer with Internet access and a secure Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . TransPoint then returns payment and related information to the biller or the biller's financial institution. The unique, round-trip approach of TransPoint essentially uses the Internet to simulate the function of a post office in communicating billing information between companies and their customers and respective financial institutions. Companies benefit from targeted marketing, greater control over the billing process, and personalized customer care. Their customers benefit from an easy-to-use and convenient service that is fast, flexible and safe. Actuate has been extremely successful winning business among dot com companies, with customers including HotJobs.com, Buyproduce.com, BuildPoint.com and AdForce. For companies whose storefront is the Internet, customers look to e.Business Web sites for information regarding their transactions or the status of an account. This content is very often the presentation of a bill, a client stock portfolio report or a performance metric, produced for an e.Business site via Web data publishing technology such as that from Actuate. Along with text/brochureware and transaction information, Web data publishing has emerged as the third significant type of content on an e.Business site. "Actuate is uniquely focused on meeting the needs of electronic businesses," said Nico Nierenberg, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Actuate. "As Actuate has built a strong portfolio of dot com customers, the company remains a leader in providing Web data publishing solutions for the financial services, telecommunications and other vertical market categories." Currently, the TransPoint e-bills service is available to consumers through the MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (TM) MoneyCentral online personal finance service at http://www.moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp and the TransPoint Web site at http://www.transpoint.com/. Today, consumers can pay 28 bills through the TransPoint service with many more becoming available in the next few months. About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation, the pioneer in e.Reporting for e.Business, enables companies to differentiate their offerings by extending the value of information across the entire customer life-cycle, creating a more loyal customer base and giving them the edge in the ever-competitive e.Business world. The Actuate e.Reporting Suite 4 is the first-ever solution that automates the creation and delivery of structured, personalized content, providing tens of thousands of users with instant access to high-resolution, customized business information that is seamlessly integrated into a company's e.Business Web site. Actuate's customers include the world's largest .com, financial services, telecommunications, health care and media companies. Software vendors reselling Actuate solutions include Ariba, Aspect Development, BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. , Clarify, InterNetworking Solutions, PeopleSoft and Siebel. Founded in 1993, and headquartered in San Mateo, Actuate has offices worldwide. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's Web site at http://www.actuate.com. Note to Editors: Actuate, Live Report Documents, Report Encyclopedia and ReportCast are registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation. e.Report, e.Reporting, Live Report Extensions, ReportBlast, SmartSearch, Transporter, Virtual Report Distribution and 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. Reports are trademarks of Actuate Corporation. All other products and corporate names referenced are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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