Actuate and BIRT Exchange To Present Customization and Real World Applications for BIRT as a Gold Sponsor of EclipseCon 2009

San Mateo, Calif. – March 16, 2009 – Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, today announced it will be participating as a gold sponsor of EclipseCon 2009, through its BIRT Exchange community. EclipseCon, the premier technical and user conference, runs from March 23-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

At EclipseCon 2009, Actuate will be showcasing BIRT Exchange, a community site that offers developers the broadest single collection of resources for BIRT the leading open source information application development environment and a top level Eclipse project founded and co-led by Actuate. Additionally, BIRT experts from Actuate, will present various sessions to educate conference attendees on advanced customization and capabilities within BIRT Exchange for real world application and development.

Session: "Using and Extending Eclipse Data Tools (DTP)”
Speaker: Linda Chan, principal engineer, Actuate
Date: Monday, March 23, 2009
Time: 8:00-12:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Open Source As Part of a Successful Product Strategy” Speaker: Paul Clenahan, vice president product development, Actuate
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 11:10-12:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "BIRT BOF”
Speaker: Jason Weathersby, BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 11:30- 12:45 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Who Is BIRT? Solving Your Data Visualization Needs with Open Source Reporting”
Speaker: Paul Clenahan, vice president product development, Actuate
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 10:10-11:00 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Integrating BIRT in RAP applications”
Speaker: Virgil Dodson, developer and BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 1:55-1:20 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "BIRT Usage Models”
Speaker: Jason Weathersby, BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 2:30- 3:10 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Advanced BIRT Report Customization”
Speaker: Virgil Dodson, developer and BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Time: 10:10-11:00 a.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Mashing up data in web pages using BIRT Reports”
Speaker: Rob Murphy, BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Time: 1:55- 2:20 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Give Users a Web Portal for Creating Ad-hoc Reports”
Speaker: Virgil Dodson, developer and BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Time: 3:30- 4:20 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Integrating BIRT within your Applications”
Speaker: Jason Weathersby, BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Time: 2:55- 3:20 p.m. Pacific Time

Session: "Deploying and Integrating BIRT”
Speaker: Jason Weathersby, BIRT evangelist, Actuate
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009
Time: 2:30- 3:20 p.m. Pacific Time

Conference Details:
Who: BIRT Exchange experts from Actuate
What: EclipseCon 2009
Where: Booth #306, Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
When: March 23 – 26
URL: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/

Actuate - The BIRT Company™

Actuate founded and co-leads the BIRT open source project, which is used by more than 2.5 million developers around the globe and serves as the foundation of the ActuateOne® platform. Applications built on ActuateOne deliver more business and consumer insights to more people than all BI companies combined — ensuring organizations are ready for the exponential growth of Big Data and the proliferation of touch devices.

The ActuateOne platform empowers developers to rapidly develop custom, BIRT-based business analytics and customer communications applications. ActuateOne applications built with one BIRT design can access and integrate any data, including unstructured sources. They provide one user experience regardless of skill level and are supported by one platform for any cloud, hybrid, on-premise, web or touch device deployment.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services, technology and the public sector. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more information, visit www.actuate.com or engage with the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.

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