Actuate Names City of Dallas 2009 Excellence Award Winner for Performance Management

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people behind BIRT(TM), today announced that it has awarded a 2009 Excellence Award for Performance Management to the City of Dallas. City of Dallas has won in the Super Size category for its enterprise-wide performance management initiative with its innovation and impressive return on investment using Actuate and BIRT.

City of Dallas' enterprise-wide deployment of its performance management initiative entailed implementing BIRT Performance Scorecard (formerly known as Performancesoft Views) to help refine and re-energize the City's approach to evaluating its performance. The initiative resulted in an easy to use system that freed organizational stakeholders to concentrate on the high-level questions that data prompts, rather than spending time and effort on retrieving and formatting data. Furthermore, the dynamic environment in which City departments can now access their data has raised general awareness of the benefits of performance measurement. With a much more intuitive look and feel, BIRT Performance Scorecard makes information much more accessible to a wider audience, reinforcing a culture of evidence based management to extend accountability beyond a select group of managers and analysts. Finally, the enhanced accessibility provided by BIRT Performance Scorecard has aided efforts to rationalize metrics, eliminating those that did not provide any insight into normal operations.

"We are delighted to receive this award," said Margaret Wright, assistant director, strategic customer services, City of Dallas. "This award is a testament to our commitment to the citizens of the City of Dallas. With Actuate technology, accurate and up-to-date City performance data is compiled and is posted for the general public to review."

In response to the recently federal government developed requirements for the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), City of Dallas quickly realized that BIRT Performance Scorecard had the capacity to meet the federal reporting and transparency requirements of the Act, in addition to addressing its enterprise wide performance management initiatives. City of Dallas decided to use BIRT Performance Scorecard to track ARRA measures as it was a system the City already had, users have already been trained, and the system has the ability to post results to the Internet for the public. The benefits of the program and the return on investment continue to grow.

"We congratulate City of Dallas as a 2009 Actuate Excellence Award winner, and for their ongoing innovative use of Actuate technologies," said Nobby Akiha, senior vice president, marketing, Actuate. "City of Dallas is a shining example of how Actuate technologies can accommodate existing framework for performance measurement and be scaled beyond the enterprise."

2009 Actuate Excellence Award winners will be honored at the Actuate Customer Days held in San Francisco, October 28; New York, November 3; Frankfurt, November 10; London, November 12; and Paris, November 17. To keep up-to-date on all the Actuate and BIRT Customer Day activities via Twitter, follow Actuate at www.twitter.com/Actuate and the hashtag #ActuateBCD.

Actuate and BIRT Customer Day Registration

The Actuate and BIRT customer days are open to Actuate's licensed customers, resellers, certified partners and analysts, as well registered BIRT Exchange users. For more detailed agenda information, or to register for the conference, please visit www.actuate.com or email ABCD@actuate.com.

Actuate -- the people behind BIRT

Actuate founded and continues to co-lead the Eclipse BIRT open source project. BIRT is the premier development environment for Rich Information Applications that present data in compelling and interactive ways via the web on any device. Actuate and its people are dedicated to making BIRT the best environment for our customers to develop Web 2.0 applications that drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction/loyalty and improve operational performance. The people of Actuate continually participate in and provide resources for the vibrant open source community that has emerged around BIRT. Anybody can participate in the BIRT movement by visiting www.birt-exchange.com.

Actuate offers value-add BIRT products and services that speed the development process and bring additional functionality, interactivity and enterprise scalability to BIRT-based Rich Information Applications. Actuate has over 4,400 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in 1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ACTU. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com.

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