Actuate Names Presbyterian Health Services 2009 Excellence Award Winner for Performance Management

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people behind BIRT™, today announced that it has named Presbyterian Healthcare Services, a not-for-profit system of hospitals, a health plan and a growing medical group, a recipient of the 2009 Actuate Excellence Award for Performance Management, in the Perfect Slice category. The Actuate Excellence Awards recognize innovation and impressive return on investment among Actuate customers and BIRT users and the Perfect Slice Category is specifically for departmental and function scorecarding.

Presbyterian Healthcare Services has been awarded an Excellence Award in the Perfect Slice category for its departmental scorecarding. The winning solution Presbyterian Healthcare implemented aided its Pharmacy department in converting from static, manual scorecarding production to applying BIRT Performance Scorecard to make the Pharmacy Services department a best-practice leader in enhancing transparency of performance data and increased accountability for measured performance.

“We are thrilled to have our efforts to improve and expand our Performance Management initiative acknowledged with this accolade from Actuate,” said Molly Payne, performance management analyst at Presbyterian Healthcare Services. “Based on the easy-to-use interface, product features, and simple application management in BIRT Performance Scorecard, Presbyterian Health Services Pharmacy Department has a more direct measure owner impact over performance, improving accountability and responsiveness, thereby allowing an increased level of data-driven decision making.”

The BIRT Performance Scorecard solution implemented by Presbyterian Health Services is unique because it allowed the company to address a major department at Presbyterian and completely convert their performance management processes to the enterprise standard with absolutely no exceptions or resistance.

“We congratulate Presbyterian Health Services as one of our 2009 Excellence Award winners who has embraced Actuate and BIRT technologies to create a best-of-bread performance management solution,” said Nobby Akiha, senior vice president, marketing, Actuate. “With over 4,400 customers across all industries, Actuate’s standards are high, and our winners are each on the leading edge of leveraging technology for their rich information application needs.”

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.

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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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