Actuate to Host Customer Days in 5 Cities Internationally

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the people behind BIRT, announced today that registration is open for Actuate & BIRT Customer Days. The customer days are a change in format from past years’ Actuate International User Conferences, and consist of a series of free one-day events to make it easier and more affordable for Actuate and BIRT customers - the people behind BIRT - to convene. Attendees will learn how Actuate and BIRT transform the user experience for Performance Management and Customer Facing applications by leveraging the premier development environment for rich information applications. The customer days will be held in San Francisco, October 28, New York, November. 3, Frankfurt, November. 10, London, November. 12 and Paris, November. 17.

“Those who attend the Actuate and BIRT Customer Days will be part of a collaborative environment where they will have access to training and best practices for building and exploiting next-generation rich information applications through the shared wisdom of our customers, partners, Actuate technologists, BIRT developers and industry experts,” said Nobby Akiha, senior vice president marketing, Actuate. “The Conference will also present attendees with technical and business tips, product feature overviews, best practices, real-world success stories and of course invaluable networking opportunities.”

Attendees will receive an update from Pete Cittadini, Actuate’s President and CEO, get a peek under the hood of Actuate’s product road map, as well as examples of BIRT applications, demos and tips. Actuate will honor the winners of the annual Actuate Excellence Awards, which recognize customer innovation using BIRT, Performance Scorecards, Spreadsheets and additional examples of excellence. Lastly, the upcoming customer days will provide attendees an opportunity to network with their peers, Actuate executives, BIRT experts and the community at large.

Among the tracks offered at the customer days include:

Actuate 11: New and Notable – Top Reasons to Upgrade to Actuate 11

Attend this session to learn about the new exciting capabilities coming in Actuate 11 that you can leverage to provide a facelift to your current applications with new capabilities, better user experience and performance, and more efficient administration of applications.

Who is BIRT? Getting to Know the BIRT Technology

This session introduces BIRT, looks at Actuate's leadership in the open source domain, highlights the various products in the BIRT product family and describes how you can use BIRT in your organization.

Building Rich Information Applications with Actuate

This session will discuss features such as JavaScript API, Flash Objects, Interactive Viewer and more that enable organizations to build rich interactive applications for information delivery. Also included in this session is a demonstration that showcases these capabilities to build a Rich Information Application.

BIRT Performance Scorecard (Performancesoft Views): Unleashing Your Performance Management Information

Find out through a live demonstration, how BIRT Performance Scorecard (formerly known as Performancesoft Views) integrated root cause analysis and reporting capabilities empowers business users through rich interactive reports, intuitive web spreadsheet reports and dynamic web dashboards, which can be customized to meet any requirement.

Actuate and BIRT Customer Day Registration

The Actuate and BIRT customer days are open to Actuate’s licensed customers, resellers, certified partners and analysts. For more 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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