Actuate Expands Technology Alliances Program

New Partners Add Value through Business Domain and Emerging Software Solutions Expertise

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — August 6, 2007 —Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Reporting Applications, today announced the expansion of its Technology Alliances Program.
Actuate’s Technology Alliance Partners develop applications in emerging technology areas that interface with Actuate products to enhance and extend the range of capabilities for joint customers. Together, Actuate and its partners develop and deliver applications that improve corporate performance and offer more choice to customers.

Actuate’s Technology Alliance Partners bring added flexibility and functionality for enterprise dashboards, spreadsheet modeling, mobile business intelligence and data acceleration.

Several Actuate Technology Alliance Partners will be featured at The Partner Fair at Actuate’s International User Conference, August 13-15, 2007 in Las Vegas.  Partners will be demonstrating proven solutions with high performance, scalability, and reliability.  Attendees at the Partner Fair will gain more insight into how Actuate partners can help their IT organization succeed and leverage existing IT investments.
Enterprise Dashboards

• iDashboards brings enhanced enterprise dashboard capabilities to Actuate users. Combined, iDashboards and Actuate provide a comprehensive business intelligence platform for reports, dashboards and real-time business alerts – providing insight and access into organization’s mission critical data, KPIs and metrics.
• As a leading provider of state-of-the-art dynamic data visualization solutions, Kearen Corporation offers Actuate users powerful new capabilities within Actuate. The combined product solutions provide a visually-rich Flash view of key business metrics complete with the ability to drill to detailed data. In addition, users’ spreadsheet data can be easily integrated as a data source to a dashboard, or combined with data from other enterprise sources. 

Spreadsheet Modeling

• A3 Modeling, from A3 Solutions, is a web application platform for constructing high performance Corporate Performance Management applications in an easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet.  Built on Actuate’s e.Spreadsheet engine, A3 Modeling adds code free authoring tools, OLAP connectivity with high performance write-back functionality, workflow monitors, analytic query slice and dice, data management and collaboration tools.  These enable customers to transform their most complex multi-user spreadsheet systems into integrated web applications, while retaining the flexibility and familiarity of Microsoft Excel.

Mobile Business Intelligence

• Mobile Dashboard by Webalo frees enterprise IT staff from complex programming and time-consuming maintenance tasks by automatically adapting Actuate e.Spreadsheet report data for viewing on mobile devices, including RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft® Windows Mobile, Palm Treo and Java®-enabled smart phones.  Offered as an IBM hosted service, this improves user productivity by enabling them to easily create and bookmark personalized report views. 

Data Acceleration

• HyperRoll software is a data warehouse query performance engine; when used with the Actuate platform, HyperRoll technology provides an exponential increase in query performance and delivers more consistent and optimized query performance during peak user periods.  Increasing the speed of data aggregation allows users of Actuate software to analyze larger data sets and perform analysis in near real-time.

Quotes, attributable to Nobby Akiha, senior vice president of marketing at Actuate:

“Organizations across industries have realized the business benefits that come from bringing customers, partners and employees closer to the information that drives day-to-day business operations.  Superior business intelligence, performance management and reporting applications are a team effort, and with the alliances announced today, our customers will benefit from unsurpassed technology within key business areas.” 

“Actuate works with a select number of strategic partners to help organizations better utilize their information assets to create world class business intelligence, performance management and reporting applications.   We are excited to add iDashboards, Kearen Corporation and A3 Solutions into our Technology Alliance program, and further expand our relationships with Webalo and HyperRoll to help our combined customer sets further execute on their business initiatives.”

About Actuate
Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in Business Intelligence, Performance Management and Reporting Applications, enables organizations to develop solutions that optimize corporate performance. 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.

About A3 Solutions
A3 Solutions is an innovator in the Spreadsheet Automation market. Leveraging its advanced analytic application technology, A3 Solutions competes successfully with market leaders by delivering more powerful budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and executive dashboard solutions that deploy more quickly and at lower total cost. Come to our website (www.a3solutions.com) and see how American Airlines, Avon, Cox Communications, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Safeway, Toyota, Williams Sonoma, and Verizon use software from A3 to reduce the time and labor associated with spreadsheets, increase confidence in reporting and analysis, enjoy more timely and detailed visibility into operational performance, and make decisions more quickly and confidently. A3 Solutions' partners include leading enterprise technology providers such as Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, News), IBM (NYSE: IBM, News), and Oracle (Nasdaq: HYSL, News). A3 Solutions is headquartered in San Francisco, California. To learn more about the company or its flagship product, A3 Modeling, visit www.a3solutions.com, send an email to sales@a3solutions.com, or call 415-356-2300.