Actuate to Deliver Web Conference on Creating Client Loyalty With Web 2.0 for Online Payments Portals - Guest Speaker Financial Insights

Business Wire, Feb 11, 2008

SAN MATEO, Calif. -- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits[TM], today announced that it is hosting a web conference on Creating Client Loyalty with Web 2.0 for Online Payments Portals with expert analyst Aaron McPherson, Practice Leader at Financial Insights, an IDC company, a provider of independent research, custom consulting, and detailed multiclient studies on the technology issues and challenges facing the financial services industry.

Featured Guest Presenter: Aaron McPherson, Financial Insights

As a practice leader responsible for the strategic direction of research in payments and security, Aaron writes and consults with clients on a wide array of subjects, including the future development of payment systems along with security and fraud. He is particularly well versed in the areas of enterprise payments, financial supply chain management, check image exchange and information security.

Co Presenter: Todd Paoletti, Actuate Corporation

As the Director of Online Channel Solutions for Actuate, Todd leads marketing, solutions and sales strategy for online channel applications for the banking, investment and insurance sectors. His role includes consulting with customers on their online product roadmaps, customer needs analysis and best practices for online functionality -- specifically around information presentation and management.

Topic: Creating Client Loyalty with Web 2.0 for Online Payments Portals

Web Conference Details:

Date: February 21, 2008

Time: 9:00 AM Pacific / Noon Eastern

Duration: One hour

Cost: Free

Event Overview:

Corporate banking customers are demanding better visibility into their payments activities in the way of real-time monitoring and administration. These same business customers have a growing ability to switch banks that can provide these higher value services. As a result, banks must add value to traditional payment services to ensure customer retention and grow crucial revenue streams. Because of mergers, bank silos prevent the consolidation, flexibility that customer are demanding.

With the growing use of web-based front ends and customer portals, web 2.0 based Rich Internet Applications are providing the superior service and visibility into their payments that keep customers and increase growth.

The webcast will focus on:

Business Challenges Facing the Bank

* How can banks maintain profitability?

* Are payments becoming a commodity?

* What are corporate customers demanding?

* How silos are preventing consolidation, reducing flexibility, increasing costs?

Technical Challenges Facing the Bank

* Proliferation of new channels - online.

* Growing use of web-based front ends.

* Increasing demand for real-time monitoring and administration.

The Central Role for Rich Internet Applications

* Contain costs and improve efficiencies

* Reduce errors, exceptions, reject rates, manual intervention and redundancy

* Add value to traditional payment services to preserve and grow crucial revenue streams

* Improve risk management and provide visibility into payments

* Provide superior service and visibility into the payment process to keep customers and increase growth

Registration: To register visit https://www.cmpnetseminars.com/ars/eventregistration.do?mode=eventreg &F=1000830&K=1AA1E1 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists).

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is dedicated to increasing the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of enterprise data, for everyone, everywhere. Actuate delivers the next generation RIA-ready information platform for both customer and employee-facing applications. The Actuate platform boasts unmatched scalability, high-performance, reliability and security. Its proven RIA capabilities and highly collaborative development architecture are backed by the world's largest open source information application developer community, grounded in BIRT, the Eclipse Foundation's only top level Business Intelligence and reporting project.

Global 9000 organizations use Actuate to roll out RIA-enabled customer loyalty and Performance Management applications that improve customer satisfaction and employee productivity. The company has over 4,200 customers globally in a diverse range of business areas including financial services and the public sector, many of which have a long history of deploying Actuate-based solutions for dozens, or even hundreds of their mission-critical applications. Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in San Mateo, California, with offices worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol ACTU. For more information on Actuate, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com.

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