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 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 4,500 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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