Report Formats -- Users can view and work within cached
reports or spreadsheets or generate reports on demand .bpmpartners.
Applix recently released TM1 Version 9.

Applix and TM1 are registered trademarks of Applix, Inc.

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Role + Responsibility-based Data Access -- Increases the
scalability of FPM by allowing role based access to only
authorized content from a single , centrally stored report. "Because TM1 is ranked the
top solution for overall business benefits achieved in The OLAP Survey 5, it
is a compelling choice for SKYTEC's prospects and customers.applix .

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Any and all
users should be involved in contributing to the decision making
process." (Source: Actuate CustomConnects Interview, Featuring Gartner
"Improving Financial Performance", October 2004 .

-- Connectors - Provides access to multiple financial systems in
sources such as PeopleSoft , SAP, Hyperion Essbase, DB2, SQL,
Sybase, Oracle DB, Progress, Excel, ODBC, JDBC, and XML. Upgrades are available to existing
Actuate customers for $100,000 or less.shtml)
named Applix the 2004 leader in the tools category and in 2005 recognized that
Applix customers had the highest level of satisfaction of any of the leading
BPM solutions, suites, tools and vendors.bpmstandardsgroup. TM1 Financial
Consolidations, TM1 Planning Manager and TM1 Web are trademarks of Applix,
Inc.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.

iServer - Provides the industry's most complete and powerful
infrastructure for disseminating interactive, actionable
business information to employees, customers, and partners
which includes:

Integration - Open standards based architecture for
integration with all web services, enterprise
applications, back-end data sources, and e-business
applications and platforms through Actuate Active Portal,
Actuate Reportlets and Actuate's Enterprise Information
Integration (EII).
Reports are available in HTML, DHTML, PDF, RTF, Excel or
XML format.Services - Provides 50 days of packaged on-site professional
services as part of the Rapid-Time-To-Value Package allowing
for quick implementation of Actuate FPM by leveraging Actuate
e.org), and has been recognized by numerous
industry analyst groups for its technical leadership and vision in the
marketplace. For more information about
Applix , please visit http://www.

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This pricing includes the Actuate iServer, a scalable enterprise
reporting server for generating, managing and securely delivering
reporting and analytic content to 100 percent of an organization's
users, and the eServices Rapid Time to Value package (RTTV) allowing
companies to go from purchase to value realization in as little as 5
weeks with only 50 person days.S. and certain other
countries.
"The new partnership with Applix is an important addition to our solution
portfolio on two levels: first, TM1 has achieved certified integration with
SAP BW, and many of our customers deploy SAP BW," said Marco Kiernan, director
of sales and consulting, SKYTEC ."

Applix TM1
Applix's TM1 is a unified, multidimensional application, delivering
business planning, reporting and analytics for powering strategic analysis of
financial, operational, transactional and other business data. Forward-looking statements
necessarily involve risks and uncertainties , and actual results could differ
materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result
of various important factors.

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These pressures place sizable demands on the finance
department , which must keep staff streamlined to control costs while
producing accurate fiscal data on-demand ."

Actuate FPM Features

-- Report Library - Allows easy navigation to all relevant
information by providing standard report templates including:

Organizational Summaries -- Key performance indicators,
Summary Revenue and Expense Statements for the
organization as a whole, by division and by business unit. Adding more complex and
flexible analytics, TM1 enables SAP customers to gain more insight into their
business through their SAP applications.

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Companies are then able to close the books faster, provide
more accurate information about performance against budgets and make
more precise forecasts.

About Actuate Corporation

Actuate Corporation is the world leader in Enterprise Reporting
Applications that ensure 100% adoption by users Actuate's Enterprise
Reporting Application Platform is the foundation on which Global 9000
organizations (companies with annual revenues greater than $1 billion)
and packaged application software vendors develop intuitive, Web
portal-like reporting and analytic applications that empower 100% of
users with decision-making information.e.
(508) 475-2441 (781) 418-2406
kkassa@sparksource .

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This 'communication in context' directly
connects the manager's comments with the numbers in question to
provide an easily accessible, secure and auditable record of all
dialogue surrounding the financial performance analysis and review
process.
Founded in 1993, Actuate has headquarters in South San Francisco,
Calif.

Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and
prospects for the Company, including any statements containing the words
"believes," "anticipates ," "plans," "expects," and similar expressions,
constitute forward-looking statements.

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These
approaches limit the accuracy, timeliness and/or granularity of
information and do not necessarily provide financial information in a
format that can be distributed and consumed enterprise-wide.
SKYTEC, employing 150 staff in its Munich and Stuttgart, Germany, and
Vienna, Austria offices, specializes in Business Intelligence -- from
strategic consulting for data warehouse architectures to solution suites for
business performance management, as well as implementation and customization
services for SAP BW."
"SKYTEC is an ideal partner for Applix, with deep BI/BPM knowledge,
experienced consultants , and the ability to leverage TM1's real-time,
read/write environment to help extend the customer 's SAP BW investment," said
Hans-Georg Schieb, managing director, Applix GmbH. The annual BPM Partners
"Beyond the Hype" Webcast (http://www.

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Economic uncertainties continue to require organizations to cut costs
and improve performance, while the responsibilities of finance teams
have increased to include ensuring compliance with new federal
regulations.)
"The types of users involved in the initiative of properly
delegating accountability and responsibility really span the
enterprise , encompassing every organization and every department, all
the way from the executive to the administrative level, even including
the clerical area," said Lee Geishecker, research vice president of
Gartner Research. "In some cases, it even extends beyond the
enterprise to trading partners, suppliers, and customers.
Actuate FPM is the first financial management solution to deliver
comprehensive financial reports which include data pulled directly
from heterogeneous planning, budgeting, human resource , sales, and
financial systems.

Transaction Detail -- General Ledger and sub-ledger
transactions for a single account.Services methodology, product expertise, and industry
knowledge throughout the entire project life cycle. Applix is a founder of the BPM Standards Group
(http://www.

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Collaboration - Allows users to add comments to the FPM
reports in order to share information and resolve issues
regarding specific variances. These applications are
deployed inside and outside the firewall to improve corporate
performance across a range of business functions including financial
management, sales, human resource management, and customer
self-service. When tested against other business intelligence
products, Actuate's Enterprise Reporting Application Platform has been
proven to offer industry-leading scalability and the lowest Total Cost
of Ownership. Actuate has over 3 ,000 customers globally in a range of
industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, insurance ,
and distribution services, as well as the government sector.com

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Actuate Solution Distributes Fiscal Accountability Across the Enterprise

"Improving financial performance in order to respond to global
competition has become an absolute necessity for companies, and the
new pressures of regulatory compliance have created an urgency to
distribute accountability to achieve this goal, " said Richard Stark,
director of financial performance management solutions for Actuate., Applix ,
Inc. The 2005 OLAP
Survey 5 (http://www.com/events_webinars.

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By providing
reliable real-time access to information, FPM frees up financial
analyst and management resources, who can then spend time on
strategic, value-add activities.

Pricing and Availability

Actuate FPM is immediately available and can be purchased for
$150,000 for a 50 user license or $560,000 for a 500 user license .
Actuate and the Actuate logo are registered trademarks of Actuate
Corporation and/or its affiliates in the U. The company also offers TM1 Planning Manager(TM) to provide
workflow and compliance capabilities for all TM1-based applications, TM1
Financial Reporting(TM) for rapid and easy reporting applications , TM1
Financial Consolidations(TM) to streamline journal entries, inter-company
eliminations and other consolidation processes, and TM1 Web(TM), a Web-enabled
front end for global and remote read /write capabilities of BPM and BI
applications.

About Applix
Applix (Nasdaq: APLX ) is a global provider of Business Performance
Management and Business Intelligence solutions.

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Actuate FPM includes process controls embedded directly into the
reports allowing executives to monitor and view approvals and
annotations in real-time.
"The delivery of a unified view of accurate financial information,
which has been approved by everyone in the organization with fiscal
responsibility , is the most direct way to improve corporate
performance and comply with federal regulations. (Nasdaq: APLX), a global provider of single platform solutions for
Business Performance Management (BPM) and Business Intelligence (BI), today
announced a new partnership with SKYTEC AG, an IT consulting firm and service
provider.

Softwares and Companies for Data Acquision, Control, Data processing, formats , format conversion, manipulation, integrity checking, data transfer, storage and backup, retrieval, reporting, ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), SQL(Software Query Language), data compression methods and algorithms, etc.

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For more information on Actuate, visit
the company's web site at www. Agreement to Help Expand TM1's Reach in Germany, Austria With Solutions for
Business Performance Management , Real-Time Analytics for SAP BW

MUNICH and WESTBOROUGH, Mass. Delivered by Applix and by a
global network of partners, TM1-based solutions help customers manage their
business performance and respond to the marketplace in real time. The Company
anticipates that subsequent events and developments may cause the Company's
views to change. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are the property of
their respective owners.

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In order to reconcile these
competing demands, companies need to tap the financial knowledge of
all employees by effectively distributing fiscal responsibility across
the organization. Reports can be presented daily or on-demand to
thousands of cost-center managers and executives. Actuate's process monitoring allows executives
and the finance department to track who has viewed and/or approved
end-of-period statements in real-time, ensuring that CEOs and CFOs can
comply with external reporting requirements with integrity and
confidence., and has offices worldwide.

Applix TM1 is among the top five third-party software packages used as a
front end to SAP, according to The OLAP Survey 51. "Secondly, TM1 presents an extremely
powerful, single application for all aspects of business performance
management -- i.survey.
Headquartered in Westborough, MA, Applix maintains offices in four countries
in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim.com. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-
looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically
disclaims any obligation to do so, and these forward -looking statements should
not be relied upon as representing the Company's views as of any date
subsequent to the date of this release.

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These solutions, based on
Applix's TM1 analytics platform, enable the continuous planning, management
and monitoring of performance across the financial and operational functions
within the enterprise.

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Customers and Industry Experts have shown strong support for the
value of Actuate FPM for distributing financial accountability. (See
related announcement , "Customers and Industry Experts Embrace the
Actuate Financial Performance Management Solution" 02 . All other brands, names or trademarks mentioned may be
trademarks of their respective owners.

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05 . Actuate FPM empowers cost center
managers and executives to instantly recognize cost over-runs and
under-runs, perform analysis on the impact of budget variances,
respond confidently and comprehensively to questions from all
stakeholders, and immediately identify and correct operational
problems . Actuate is listed on the NASDAQ
exchange under the symbol ACTU. With this partnership, Applix is further expanding its global
partner network to meet the needs of firms using SAP.

Contact:
Charlotte Locke Kelley Kassa
Applix SparkSource, Inc.

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This unique ability provides companies
with the capability to distribute fiscal responsibility throughout the
enterprise, help drive financial performance, and assist in compliance
with federal regulations, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.14.

Applix Announces New Partnership with Information Technology Consulting Firm SKYTEC AG

com/olap) by independent analyst Nigel Pendse ,
gave TM1 the highest marks for speed of query, deployment, and data load and
pre-calculation , as well as the highest ranking for overall business benefits
achieved and the lowest number of technical problems.

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Rigorous regulatory and global competition demands are forcing
companies to transform traditional financial management processes.

Revenue and Expense Detail -- Budget and forecast
variances by business unit and by account. Annotations database that
provides a secure , auditable, record of financial performance
analysis commentary for review and as a basis to development
management commentary of financial results. All rights reserved.
More than 2,100 customers worldwide use TM1 for business performance
management because of its tight integration with Excel, real-time response,
adaptability, and low total cost of ownership." In addition,
the forward-looking statements provided by the Company in this press release
represent the Company's views as of the date of this release.

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----Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU):

-- Actuate Delivers the First Financial Performance Management
(FPM) Solution that combines Collaboration, Process
Management , and Information Integration to Increase Financial
Visibility for Managers Throughout the Enterprise

Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the world leader in Enterprise
Reporting Applications , today announced the immediate availability of
the Actuate Financial Performance Management (FPM ) solution.)
Organizations typically do not distribute financial data beyond
the finance department as budget and actual spending data is spread
across the company in disparate systems with incompatible reporting
capabilities which are unable to scale to reach all users. In order to
consolidate this data for financial management reporting, companies
either compile reports manually or conduct batch processes to extract,
transform and load (ETL) summary data into a central repository.

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Copyright(C) 2005 Actuate Corporation.

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Actuate
FPM is the first technology solution to directly integrate data from
disparate Financial, Human Resource, Revenue and Budgeting +
Forecasting systems and present on-demand reports to every employee
with financial accountability.

Headcount Report -- Employee names, titles, salaries and
other HR related data for current employees as well as for
planned additions.

Commitment Report -- Commitments made by cost center
managers which remain unbilled, allowing for more accurate
expense management against plan and forecast.

Process Control Report - Tracks viewing of individual cost
center reports as well as approval or rejection status of
each cost center.

Security - Actuate's Page Level Security allows IT to
create one report that delivers personalized content to
thousands of users greatly reducing stress on
transactional systems by executing only one query and
report management by automatically inheriting user and
role privileges.actuate., planning, budgeting, business modeling, analysis, and
reporting -- which are becoming more important to all of our customers, and
Applix is the only vendor of an OLAP-based solution offering such a complete
package. Customers using TM1-based
applications have won industry awards from several leading publications,
including Start Magazine and Business Finance Magazine.0 with its high performance Web
solution for real-time business performance management and reporting across
the enterprise. Factors that could cause or contribute to such
differences include without limitation, competitive pressures, changes in
customer demands, adverse economic conditions, loss of key personnel,
litigation, potential fluctuations in quarterly results, lengthy sales cycles,
market acceptance of new or enhanced products and services, factors affecting
spending by customers and other risks, uncertainties and factors including
those described in the Company 's most recent Form 10-K or 10-Q under the
heading "Risk Factors"/"Factors That May Affect Future Results.