Actuate Awards Customers for Excellence in Business Intelligence and Performance Management

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced the recipients of the 2008 Actuate Excellence Awards. The winners were recognized at the 12th Annual Actuate International User Conference in Las Vegas, NV for their success in extending the business value in Business Intelligence and Performance Management. The categories and their winners include: Customer Innovation Award: Presented to State Street for building a highly innovative information application based on Actuate. Performance Management Award: Presented to Presbyterian Healthcare Services for excellence in Performance Management using Actuate’s technology. OEM Innovation Awards: Presented to ChemWare Inc. for building the most innovative commercial application utilizing Actuate’s platform and S1 Enterprise for providing customers with powerful online banking features for their high-volume Fortune 1000 cash management users. Honorable mentions include: Hay Group for Customer Innovation and Miller Pipeline for Performance Management. "Actuate is dedicated to increasing the richness, interactivity, and effectiveness of enterprise data, for everyone, everywhere. This year’s Excellence Awards winners – including companies across various industries – are stellar examples of how our customers are leveraging Actuate’s easy-to-use interface to achieve maximum business results,” said Pete Cittadini, CEO and president of Actuate Corporation. "We congratulate these companies on their business achievements and are honored they have chosen Actuate’s technology to address their unique Business Intelligence, Enterprise Reporting and Performance Management needs.” About the Winners: State Street State Street is a winner of the 2008 Actuate Customer Innovation Award for their use of Actuate’s standard enterprise reporting tools in State Street’s "MyStateStreet.com” portal and the company’s Securities Lending and Wealth Management groups. The application is used to generate approximately over 350,000 reports a month to evaluate market and company performance, analyze and distribute daily trading statistics and access financial account reports through myStateStreet.com. "We are delighted to receive this award. State Street is always dedicated to providing our customers with innovative solutions. This award is a testament of our commitment to our customers. We’ve increased quality, timeliness and volume of financial reports thanks to Actuate,” said Fakhruz Zaman, vice president and systems programming director at State Street. "By standardizing on Actuate to leverage the technology throughout the enterprise, it’s allowed us to reduce cost by consolidating staff, hardware and maintenance requirements. Basically, Actuate has helped us improve our overall business, reach business goals and ultimately achieve better customer satisfaction.” S1 Enterprise S1 Enterprise is the winner of the 2008 OEM Innovation Award for their use of the power of Actuate to provide their customers powerful online banking features for their high-volume Fortune 1000 cash management users. Actuate’s BIRT and Interactive Viewer are leveraged by S1 Corporate Banking’s new "Interactive Information Reporting Module” which represents an entirely new way for treasury managers to access and manipulate their data using their bank’s online cash management system. "We are honored to receive this award,” said Fred Dumas, General Manager of S1 Enterprise – Treasury Online. "Because of our integration with the BIRT and Interactive Viewer products, we believe that our S1 Corporate Banking cash management solution will have one of the most innovative online information reporting tools available. We are leveraging the interactive information reporting module to help us grow our customer base and to provide our existing customers with a compelling solution for their users.” Presbyterian Healthcare Services Presbyterian Healthcare Services is the winner of the 2008 Performance Management Award for its use of Actuate Performancesoft Views. Views helped the company to create a Performance Management application to increase transparency of performance data in order to pursue excellence in the Malcolm Baldrige paradigm. As a result of revamping their use of Views, all of the organization’s 9000 employees have access to relevant, up-to-date performance status information on key measures via the Web. "We are thrilled and honored to be recognized for our efforts to improve and expand our Performance Management initiative. Based on the easy-to-use interface, product features, and simple application management, Presbyterian has been able to deploy Performancesoft Views to many more operational levels of the organization over the past year,” said Molly Payne, performance management analyst at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. "As we continue to pursue our Malcolm Baldrige journey to national excellence in healthcare, we anticipate the Actuate Performancesoft products to become an even more integral component of our daily operations.” ChemWare Inc. ChemWare Inc. is the winner of the 2008 OEM Innovation Award for its creative use of Actuate’s iServer framework to provide customers with an intuitive, customizable portal for distributing, managing and analyzing complex laboratory data via the internet. Laboratory test reports may contain time-sensitive and confidential forensic, healthcare or environmental information, for example, with legal, clinical diagnostic or regulatory implications. ChemWare’s HORIZON Web Portal® leverages the superior scalability and flexibility of the iServer, e.Report Designer Professional®, and Actuate Query® application suite to provide private and government laboratories with secure, real-time reporting and business intelligence solutions. "As the adoption rate continues to grow for online communications and data exchange between analytical laboratories and their customers, we have seen a dramatic increase in demand for greater flexibility in managing and analyzing this data,” said Robert Whitehead, vice president of ChemWare. "And while laboratory testing has been commoditized in many ways, the most highly automated laboratories leverage their ability to provide interactive content and online, two-way communication as major differentiators in their markets. Our customers are able to leverage Actuate’s extensibility and proven data security model to deliver web-based test results through a brandable, intuitive client portal integrated seamlessly with the corporate or agency web site.” About Actuate Corporation Actuate Corporation is dedicated to increasing the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of enterprise data, for everyone, everywhere. Actuate delivers the next generation RIA-ready information platform for both customer and employee-facing applications. The Actuate platform boasts unmatched scalability, high-performance, reliability and security. Its proven RIA capabilities and highly collaborative development architecture are backed by the world's largest open source information application developer community, grounded in BIRT, the Eclipse Foundation's only top level Business Intelligence and reporting project. Global 9000 organizations use Actuate to roll out RIA-enabled customer loyalty and Performance Management applications that improve customer satisfaction and employee productivity. The company has over 4,200 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector, many of which have a long history of deploying Actuate-based solutions for dozens, or even hundreds of their mission-critical applications. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in San Mateo, 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. Copyright © 2008 Actuate Corporation. All rights reserved. Actuate and the Actuate logo are registered trademarks of Actuate Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners.