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| <td align=left width="72%"> <font class=indextop> Business Information and<br> | |
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| <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'><b> | |
| Eclipse Foundation and Actuate Announce Approval of <br> | |
| Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project </b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <li>Industry Analysts Applaud Actuate's Bold Move in Open Source</li> | |
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| <P>South San Francisco, Calif. - October 6, 2004 - Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: | |
| ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise Reporting Applications, and the | |
| Eclipse Foundation, a community committed to the implementation of a universal | |
| platform for tools integration, today announced that the Eclipse Foundation | |
| has officially approved the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools | |
| (BIRT) Project. Thirty days after posting the BIRT proposal on the Eclipse | |
| website, there has been a positive response from Open Source developers | |
| who have given feedback to the first Eclipse-backed BI project.</p> | |
| <P> "The Eclipse community and our board members are pleased to accept | |
| BIRT as a top level project," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director | |
| of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. "The volume of positive feedback | |
| received in response to the BIRT proposal clearly demonstrates the need | |
| for a Business Intelligence and reporting tool as part of the Eclipse | |
| technology portfolio."</p> | |
| <P>Now that the BIRT project has been officially approved by Eclipse, Actuate | |
| will begin the task of stewarding development of BIRT, which is expected | |
| to culminate in the industry's first open Business Intelligence and Reporting | |
| platform by early 2005. Industry analysts agree that BIRT will benefit | |
| developers and Actuate by expanding the visibility of business intelligence | |
| and reporting to a wide audience of developers. These developers require | |
| easy to use tools, such as BIRT, to decrease development costs associated | |
| with the core application functions of reporting and analysis. <br> | |
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| <P><b>Industry Analysts Embrace Actuate's Decision to Support BI Open Source | |
| Development</b></p> | |
| <P><b>Forrester Research</b><br> | |
| "Actuate is being aggressive in an area where most of its competitors | |
| choose not to be: open-source," noted Keith Gile, senior analyst, | |
| Forrester Research. In his September 2004 report, Actuate Pioneers Open | |
| Source Business Intelligence And Reporting, he adds that "BI vendors | |
| that have avoided participation in an open-source initiative need to rethink | |
| this approach, and ideally get involved, as open-source will be an issue | |
| that must be addressed sooner than later."</p> | |
| <P><b>Gartner</b><br> | |
| On 26 August 2004 Bill Hostmann, research director, Gartner Research and | |
| Mark Driver, vice president and research director, Gartner Research co-authored | |
| an article entitled "Actuate Brings BI Technology to Open Source | |
| Group." The full text of their analysis is available at: http://www.actuate.com/download/actuate_brings_.pdf<br> | |
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| <P><b>IDC</b><br> | |
| "Actuate could realize strong pull-through revenue from its involvement | |
| in the Eclipse community," said Dan Vesset, research director, IDC. | |
| "Should demand for an open source reporting standard exist, Actuate's | |
| active participation in Eclipse is a positive strategic move that could | |
| give it first-mover advantage in this open source community."</p> | |
| <P><b>META Group</b><br> | |
| "Actuate will be building BIRT from the ground up (i.e. no Actuate | |
| iServer code will be used). However, application developers without a | |
| core BI and reporting standard will be able to use a free open source | |
| tool to embed with the applications they develop," said Kurt Schlegel, | |
| senior program director, META Group.</p> | |
| <P><b>Ventana Research</b><br> | |
| "The Eclipse Foundation's Java IDE technology reaches thousands if | |
| not millions of Java developers. Adding BIRT to the Eclipse project portfolio | |
| means these developers now gain similar access to business intelligence | |
| technology," said Eric Rogge, vice president and research director, | |
| Ventana Research. "BIRT will benefit from Actuate's experience and | |
| competence in enterprise reporting. Actuate will benefit by expanding | |
| their visibility in a community where the need for reporting technology | |
| is growing."</p> | |
| <P><b>Actuate to Steward BIRT Development Roadmap</b> <br> | |
| "Actuate is honored to have the opportunity to collaborate with the | |
| Eclipse community to build a strong Open Source foundation for Business | |
| Intelligence and reporting," said Mark Coggins, senior vice president | |
| of engineering at Actuate Corporation. "Our goal is to provide cooperative | |
| leadership in the quest to bring developers an easy-to-use tool that will | |
| help decrease Business Intelligence and reporting development costs and | |
| increase innovation in this area. Now that BIRT is approved, the next | |
| order of business is to post a set of project milestones for the technology." | |
| </p> | |
| <P>The BIRT Project will leverage the Eclipse platform to provide infrastructure | |
| and tools for designing, deploying, generating and viewing reports. BIRT | |
| will be an easy-to-use platform to quickly and effectively create and | |
| deploy reports without the high development cost associated with having | |
| the developer hand-code the reports components. </p> | |
| <P><b>To Find Out More</b><br> | |
| To become involved in the development of BIRT please visit <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-birt/index.html" target="_top">www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-birt/index.html</a>. | |
| More information is available at: <a href="http://www.actuate.com/corporate/corporateresources.asp?ArticleId=7256" target="_blank">www.actuate.com/corporate/corporateresources.asp?ArticleId=7256</a>. | |
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| <P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation | |
| that hosts community based open-source projects. Eclipse creates | |
| royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development | |
| tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application | |
| construction. Eclipse based offerings give developers freedom of | |
| choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported | |
| environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework | |
| that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving | |
| time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, | |
| technology providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise | |
| and differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java | |
| language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits | |
| and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development | |
| workstations including Linux, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. | |
| Full details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting | |
| the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p> | |
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| Actuate Corporation</font></b></td> | |
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| <P> Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting | |
| Applications that ensure 100% adoption by users. Actuate's Enterprise | |
| Reporting Application Platform is the foundation on which Global | |
| 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than | |
| $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors develop intuitive, | |
| Web portal-like reporting and analytic applications that empower | |
| 100% of users with decision-making information. These applications | |
| are deployed inside and outside the firewall to improve corporate | |
| performance across a range of business functions including financial | |
| management, sales, human resource management, and customer self-service. | |
| When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's | |
| Enterprise Reporting Application Platform has been proven to offer | |
| industry-leading scalability and the lowest Total Cost of Ownership. | |
| Actuate has 2,900 customers globally in a range of industries including | |
| financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and distribution | |
| services, as well as the government sector. <br> | |
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| Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco, | |
| Calif., and has offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ | |
| exchange under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, | |
| visit the company's web site at <a href="http://www.actuate.com" target="_blank">www.actuate.com</a>.<br> | |
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| <div align="center">Madge Miller <br> | |
| Reichert Communications for Actuate Corporation <br> | |
| madge@reichertcom.com <br> | |
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| <div align="center">Barbara Stewart <br> | |
| Patterson & Associates for Eclipse Foundation <br> | |
| barbara@patterson.com <br> | |
| 480.488.6909 </div> | |
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