Axis Group LLC, Leaders In Business Intelligence Services

"With over 2100 customers, the Actuate Information Application Platform is a core part of a successful organization's Business Intelligence strategy," said Pete Cittadini, chief executive officer and president of Actuate, "It has always been our goal to partner with our customers to deliver information applications that provide high return on investment and innovation in all areas of a company's business. We congratulate our four winners who have embraced Actuate as a critical part of in their global strategy to increase revenue, provide cost savings, maximize operational efficiency, and maintain competitive advantage."

Lincoln Financial Distributors
"By combining Actuate's powerful reporting capabilities with cutting edge wireless technology, Lincoln Financial Distributors (LFD), the wholesaling arm of Lincoln Financial Group, is able to deliver up to date sales information to executives and sales managers," said Miko Pickett, Assistant Vice President of Lincoln Financial Distributors. "LFD sales management doesn't need to find a computer and an Internet connection to look at key information, it is right there on their Blackberry PDA. LFD has taken advantage of Actuate's XML and page level security capabilities to deliver only the parts of the report to the Blackberry that are relevant to a particular sales manager. Actuate allows us to build a report once and use the information anywhere - Blackberry, PocketPC, web, browser, PDF, XML, etc.) This approach reduces effort and costs from development through deployment."

Winner of Actuate's Customer Innovation Award, Lincoln Financial Distributors has implemented an innovative approach for distributing critical sales information to their management team. LFD, with the systems integration expertise and wireless toolkit provided by Axis Group, an Actuate Gold Partner, has combined wireless technology with Actuate's powerful XML capabilities to create a uniquely efficient method for extracting data from a report and displaying it on a Blackberry PDA.

The LFD Wireless Reporting Application takes advantage of all the features and capabilities of the Actuate Information Application Platform, including scalable, secure and timely information delivery. The system was built using industry standard web technologies including XML and XSLT, ensuring portability across any wireless device. The system leverages the existing investment in the Actuate Information Application Platform; clients do not need two applications in order to implement wireless reporting! The system is designed to "build-once-and-use-twice", Actuate-generated reports. By generating an XML stream from the Actuate report, wireless users will have access to the identical report information provided to other report users. This means that once an Actuate report is developed and tested, the same report, or subset of the report (based on device screen size), will be sent to the wireless handheld device. No additional coding or testing is required. The information delivered to the wireless device is sourced directly from the information produced on the Actuate iServer. This guarantees identical information wherever it is displayed.

About Actuate Corporation
Actuate Corporation is the world leader in scalable Business Intelligence applications. Actuate's Information Application Platform is the foundation on which Global 9000 organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion) and packaged application software vendors create reporting and analytics applications that scale to empower 100 percent of their user community inside and outside the firewall. These Information Applications include Business Performance Management (BPM) dashboards, Information Portals as well as business analytic, enterprise reporting and spreadsheet reporting applications. Information Applications built with Actuate enable companies to increase their business agility, improve customer and partner relationships, adhere to corporate governance policies, and increase revenues while leveraging existing technology assets. When tested against other business intelligence products, Actuate's Information Application Platform has been proven to offer industry-leading scalability, the best performance, lowest Total Cost of Ownership. Actuate has over 2,000 direct customers and 300 OEM partners in a range of industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and distribution services, as well as the government sector.

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 http://www.actuate.com/.