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Actuate/Evolve Provide Greater Data Analysis Functionality

Actuate Corporation, a Information Delivery market leader, announced that Evolve, a leader in solutions that optimize the way high-value workers deliver high-value work, now offers Global 2000 customers greater data analysis capabilities by virtue of an extended OEM agreement between the two companies.

Evolve's technology streamlines business operations and provides strategic control of an organization's workforce. The company has embedded Actuate's e.Analysis option within the latest version of its strategic workforce optimization (SWO) application, Evolve 4. Evolve already offers Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5 through a previous OEM agreement.

The Actuate e.Analysis option delivers browser-based, interactive analysis capabilities to users without requiring any configuration or warehousing of application data for users who need to "drill deeper" into their data. Actuate e.Analysis makes content even more interactive, enabling end-users to view, analyze and graph application information precisely the way they want. All Actuate content created for an application automatically delivers this capability, with no added work during the content development phase.

Evolve chose to add the Actuate e.Analysis option because of increased demand from customers who wanted the ability to work from existing reports. Evolve chose Actuate because of the clean technology fit -- the e.Analysis data cubes are Java applets and therefore deployable through a standard browser interface.

Evolve automates and streamlines the business-critical processes that drive corporate IT departments, professional services organizations and embedded service operations. Evolve's alliance with Actuate allows these organizations to deliver secure, interactive and personalized business information to executives, management, clients, partners and employees.

"By partnering with the leader in Information Delivery, Evolve offers market-leading analysis and reporting functionality," said Evolve's Kurt Heikkinen, vice president of Engineering. "The flexible Actuate e.Analysis option provides our customers an interactive capability to analyze and visualize data precisely the way they want."

Actuate has over 200 OEM customers whose products range from applications for electronic marketplaces to customer relationship management to workforce optimization. These Business leaders and packaged software vendors choose Actuate because its software represents the latest in Information Delivery technology and its e.Services group enables easy integration with existing application infrastructure, thus speeding time-to-market for new products. Further, Actuate's commitment to industry standards including Java, LDAP and XML ensures its product will be compatible with today's most prevalent eBusiness applications.

"We are thrilled to extend our relationship with Evolve as the company is recognized as one of the leaders in the strategic workforce optimization market," said John Bow, vice president of the Actuate e.Business Application Partners business unit. "The fact that Evolve has chosen to not only leverage the Actuate e.Reporting Suite, but the e.Analysis option as well, demonstrates the tremendous value Information Delivery technology provides within workforce optimization applications."

About Evolve

Evolve optimizes the way high-value workers deliver high-value work. Evolve's Strategic Workforce Optimization (SWO) solution enables organizations to optimize their strategic workforce by integrating and automating key processes that lie at the intersection of people and work they deliver. More than 100 leading professional services and corporate IT organizations have chosen Evolve's solution. Customers include EDS, E.piphany, Ericsson, Exodus, Fleet Capital Leasing, Novell, Siemens, and Sun Microsystems. Evolve is headquartered in Emeryville, Calif. (San Francisco Bay area), and has offices throughout North America, in the UK and India. Additional information is available at www.evolve.com or 1-888-2EVOLVE.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is a leading provider of Information Delivery solutions for Global 2000 companies and packaged application software vendors. Actuate provides the leading platform for retrieving business information from corporate databases and delivering interactive Web pages and Excel spreadsheets to customers, partners and employees. Its infrastructure software is the foundation for applications such as client reporting, key performance indicators, CRM, and e-Procurement. Actuate content is seamlessly integrated into corporate Web sites and packaged applications and can be printed and used to exchange data with other applications. 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 1,500 direct customers and over 200 OEM partners including AOL Time Warner, American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, BMC Software, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, i2 Technologies, Lucent Technologies, Siebel Systems and The Walt Disney Company.

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.

Contact Actuate Corporation, Kevin Wolf, 650-837-2332, kwolf@actuate.com.