Actuate Announces New Information Delivery
Solutions

Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5 Supports Java and LDAP, Adds Analysis Capabilities and
Delivers Interactive and Actionable Content to 100,000s of Users 

South San Francisco, California – October 16, 2000 — Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:
ACTU), the Information Delivery market leader, today unveiled the newest version of its
flagship product, Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5. The most powerful and functional Information
Delivery solution ever, Actuate 5 is for every company implementing an e-Business strategy
to streamline business processes and build stronger relationships with customers, partners
and employees. Actuate 5 customers and partners will benefit from new and enhanced
features including support for Java and LDAP, additional scalability, and advanced tools for
making content more interactive and actionable.

"Information Delivery has emerged as an extremely prominent component of both B2B and
B2E applications," said Dave Folger, senior director of Web strategies at META Group.
"Going forward, growing user populations within these applications will increase the need for
transparent and intuitive user interfaces. Also there will be an increased need for
personalized and customized information delivery. And a growing emphasis on
knowledge-based activities will spur greater demand for information. Actuate strategy is well
positioned to take advantage of these trends driving the emerging Information Delivery
market."

Actuate e.Reporting Suite 5

"Actuate 5 is the most significant product in this company's history," said Nico Nierenberg,
chairman and chief architect at Actuate. "Built on the tremendous success of our existing
product, Actuate 5 extends our leadership position in the emerging and critical Information
Delivery market by supporting Internet standards such as Java, XML and LDAP, providing
intuitive interfaces that are interactive and actionable while scaling to meet the needs of
companies conducting more and more business over the Web. In particular, our extensive
support for Java in Actuate 5 allows us to tackle the emerging Java market and more
seamlessly integrate with other key components of the e-Business platform."

Actuate 5 is the key Information Delivery component of a company's e-Business platform
along with Content Management systems (for publishing documents and images such as
online brochures and one-to-one marketing) and Application Servers (for processing
transactions). Actuate 5 allows you to create, manage and deliver 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. 

Actuate 5 offers a combination of new features that differentiate it from other products on the
market: 

       Actuate 5 includes 100% Pure Java content creation and management facilities; 
       Actuate 5 can call Java Objects directly; 
       Actuate 5 supports hundreds of thousands (100,000s) of end users; 
       Actuate 5 enables tighter integration with existing LDAP and other centralized
       directories to minimize administration expenses even as the population of users grows
       rapidly; 
       Actuate e.Analysis option, available with Actuate 5, increases the end user's ability to
       manipulate and analyze information without the complexity usually associated with
       analysis tools; 
       Actuate 5 makes content more interactive and actionable, allowing users to initiate
       transactions directly from e.Reports; 
       Actuate 5 delivers information to people via browser without a download (via DHTML),
       to a printer (via PDF), or to another application (via XML) – all from a single content
       specification.

Pricing and Availability

Pricing for Actuate 5 ranges from $5,000 to $50,000 per CPU depending on the functionality.
The new Information Delivery solution will be available before the end of 2000.

Information Delivery for e-Business Platforms

Organizations today are shifting an increasing number of their business processes to the
Web. In order to build e-Business applications that meet the needs of their employees,
customers and partners, they are relying on an emerging set of interconnected components
and services that constitute the e-Business platform. Actuate 5 is the Information Delivery
solution of choice for this e-Business platform.

"Information Delivery is a critical part of a company's e-Business platform, and a valuable
means for enhancing relationships with customers, partners and employees," said Mary
Lynne Perushek, CIO at Young America, an Actuate customer. "For Young America there is a
tremendous amount of information captured by enterprise applications and a related need to
deliver this data via the Internet. A key part of our Internet infrastructure, Actuate helps
Young America capitalize on this trend so we can continue to provide good service and drive
customer loyalty. We will continue to leverage the Actuate Information Delivery solution to
extend the value of our e-Business Web site."

"As global Internet usage increases, so too will the emphasis on advanced Information
Delivery solutions that empower millions of customers, partners and employees by delivering
rich content with intuitive interfaces as an integrated part of an e-Business platform," said
Pete Cittadini, president and CEO at Actuate. "The automatic capture of transaction data will
result in an information supply explosion. Actuate's scalable architecture for creating,
managing and delivering this information will be vital to gaining competitive advantage by
streamlining supply chains and strengthening customer relationships."

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, 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.

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