WhiteLight and Actuate Announce Strategic OEM Agreement

At the Actuate International User Conference, WhiteLight Systems, a leading provider of next-generation analytic applications, announced a strategic OEM relationship with Actuate Corporation, a information delivery market leader. WhiteLight has integrated the Actuate e.Reporting Suite into iApplicationServer, the newest addition to WhiteLight's Analytic Application Suite version 2.6. iApplicationServer tightly integrates the functionality of Actuate's information delivery solution with the advanced analytic capabilities of WhiteLight software.

"WhiteLight chose Actuate as the foundation for iApplicationServer because of its innovative information delivery technology for e-Business and its leading position in the market," said Dennis McGinn, chief executive officer of WhiteLight. "Actuate brings the flexibility and scalability necessary to enable our next-generation analytic applications to benefit a much broader range of business users."

"With this agreement, Whitelight becomes the latest e-Business leader to recognize information delivery technology as vital to every packaged software application and e-Business platform," said Pete Cittadini, president and chief executive officer of Actuate. "Whitelight has extended the boundaries of utilization for Actuate's information delivery solutions, which will help us improve future versions of Actuate products. WhiteLight's tight integration of Actuate technology will allow customers to better access and utilize the unique capabilities of WhiteLight's Analytic Application Suite."

With WhiteLight Analytic Application Suite version 2.6, WhiteLight has extended the capabilities of its industry-leading analytic software to benefit a broader range of business users. Customers can now access WhiteLight AnalyticServer, the core component of the suite, via a Web-based thin client: iApplicationServer. iApplicationServer goes beyond traditional Web reporting by enabling users to capture user-entered data for planning, forecasting and "what-if" analysis. WhiteLight software allows companies to not only diagnose what has happened in their businesses, but also predict what is likely to happen next and even prescribe potential courses of action.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the market-leading provider of information delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies, Internet start-ups and packaged application software vendors. Actuate builds solutions for customer applications including e-CRM, e-Procurement and Net marketplaces. Actuate's information delivery solutions make it easy to extract operational data from disparate systems and publish secure, interactive and perfectly formatted content that is seamlessly integrated with the rest of a company's Web site. By instantly delivering personalized content to 100,000s of end users -- without downloads -- companies using Actuate can increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer service. A strategic component of every company's e-Business infrastructure, Actuate has nearly 900 direct customers and 90 OEM partners including American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, BMC Software, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Clarify, Enron, Lucent Technologies, MCI WorldCom, PeopleSoft, Siebel and US West.

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.

About WhiteLight

Founded in 1992, WhiteLight Systems Inc is a privately held company based in Palo Alto, Calif., with regional headquarters in Europe and Latin America. WhiteLight provides next-generation analytic applications that revolutionize a company's ability to make critical business decisions. With the WhiteLight Analytic Application Suite, companies can quickly create and deploy analytic applications that combine the modeling flexibility of spreadsheets with the data analysis of conventional business intelligence tools. WhiteLight's customers include Barclays, Chase Manhattan Bank, UUNET, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Lehman Brothers and Grupo Televisa. For more information about WhiteLight, visit www.whitelight.com.

Contact Kristin Reams of WhiteLight Systems, 650-843-3008 or kreams@whitelight.com or Kevin Wolf of Actuate Corporation, 650-837-2332 or kwolf@actuate.com.