Rapt/Actuate Deliver Interactive and Actionable Content

Rapt Inc, a leading provider of solutions for Dynamic Commerce Management (DCM) and Actuate Corporation, a Information Delivery market leader, announced a strategic partnership to jointly market and sell its products. According to the agreement, Rapt will optimize its platform for integration with the Actuate Information Delivery solution, thus enabling customers to more quickly and effectively present Rapt's trading intelligence data and strategic sourcing plans.

The Rapt platform optimized for use with Actuate is intended to support companies that buy and sell large volumes of goods in fast-moving markets. Customers can leverage the Actuate Information Delivery solution to deliver interactive and actionable, Rapt-optimized plans in formats built specifically for the intended audience. By presenting the most relevant data, Rapt customers will be able to make more intelligent buying decisions.

"Actuate will make it easier for our customers to bring Rapt's pervasive decision intelligence to their enterprises and trading exchanges," said Dick Hoffmann, vice president of alliances at Rapt. "By partnering with the leader in Information Delivery solutions, we give our customers the ability to present Rapt-optimized recommendations that are customized for specific audiences. These can be an EPS impact analysis for a CFO or a component shortage risk analysis for a buyer -- all from the same Rapt plan."

Rapt's patent-pending decision optimization platform enables businesses to maximize financial performance by quickly evaluating and addressing risk in all buying and selling activities. Rapt's initial application for the decision optimization platform, Rapt Buy, is Web-based and determines optimal strategic sourcing plans to mitigate the supply-demand imbalance, helping companies improve revenue capture with minimal component spending.

Actuate allows for the creation, management and delivery of secure, perfectly formatted content that is seamlessly integrated with the rest of a company's Web site using operational data from multiple sources (e.g. RDBMS, data warehouse, application objects, legacy systems, EAI, etc.). Actuate is used to deliver content such as service level information, transaction histories, performance summaries, manufacturing and distribution status, and customer account information.

"By connecting Rapt's powerful analytics with the Actuate Information Delivery solution, companies will now be able to deliver trading intelligence information to customers, partners and employees in the format that best fits their role," said Nobby Akiha, vice president of marketing at Actuate. "We look forward to working with Rapt to expand the use of our Information Delivery solutions across the entire Rapt platform."

Integration between Actuate and Rapt will use the RaptML component of the Rapt Dynamic Commerce Framework. The framework simplifies integration and provides a protocol for intelligent collaboration at the decisioning layer, where buyer and seller decisions about when, where and how to procure, price, and sell strategic goods are determined.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is a 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. Actuate has over 900 direct customers and over 100 OEM partners including American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, BMC Software, Chase Manhattan Corporation, Clarify, Enron, Lucent Technologies, WorldCom, PeopleSoft and Siebel. 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 Rapt Inc

Rapt Inc is a leading provider of solutions for Dynamic Commerce Management, a new class of software and services targeting companies that buy and sell high volumes of goods in fast-moving markets. Rapt's vision is to define and deliver the e-market standard for pervasive decision intelligence. Rapt's end-to-end trading optimization application-based solution enables real-time, large-scale decision-making in complex business environments and Internet marketplaces. Founded in 1998, Rapt is a privately held, San Francisco-based company funded by Accel Partners, Summit Accelerator Fund, Octane Capital, Sun Microsystems and Chase H&Q. For more information about Rapt's solutions, please call 415-901-0900 or visit www.rapt.com.

Contact Dan Reidy, Director Corporate Communications of Rapt Inc, 415-901-0966.