Actuate Names NASCO 2009 Excellence Award Winner for Performance Management

November 3, 2009 10:15 AM EST

NASCO Achieves Significant Savings with Actuate and BIRT

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people behind BIRT(TM), today announced that it has awarded a 2009 Excellence Award for Performance Management to NASCO, a leading healthcare claims and membership solutions provider. The Actuate Excellence Awards recognize innovation and impressive return on investment among Actuate customers and BIRT users. NASCO is being honored in the "Return on Actuate" category specifically for achieving a measurable impact and value from Actuate and BIRT.

NASCO turned to Actuate and BIRT for a cost-efficient, flexible, robust reporting solution with proven scalability that could work with any data warehouse in their membership department. The measurable impact and value realized by NASCO with its Actuate and BIRT implementation entailed developmental cost savings of approximately 50% per report over its previous solution. Additionally, NASCO was able to reduce time to roll-out of new reports, expand premium billing service with new clients because of the richness of the Actuate solution, deliver rich interactive reports with more information on demand and scale the solution as its business grows.

"We are excited to be honored with an Actuate Excellence Award. The cost savings and reduced reporting times we have achieved with Actuate have been unprecedented," said Jennifer Holland, PMP(R) business systems manager team lead, NASCO. "Due to our successful implementation and measurable value-add with the Actuate solution, we will be growing the solution's user base from 100 to nearly 450 to achieve further cost savings and more rich interactive reporting across our organization."

The results of NASCO's Actuate and BIRT initiative also include a significant increase in customer satisfaction by increasing collaboration between business managers gathering customer requirements and plan resources, improving NASCO's ability to deliver timely enhancements requested by customers.

"We are pleased to honor NASCO as a 2009 Actuate Excellence Award winner, for their impressive cost saving and use of the rich information applications developed using Actuate and BIRT for its membership department," said Nobby Akiha, senior vice president, marketing, Actuate. "NASCO is a superb example of how Actuate and BIRT can drive cost savings with measurable impact."

2009 Actuate Excellence Award winners will be honored at the Actuate Customer Days held in San Francisco, October 28; New York, November 3; Frankfurt, November 10; London, November 12; and Paris, November 17. To keep up-to-date on all the Actuate and BIRT Customer Day activities via Twitter, follow Actuate at www.twitter.com/Actuate and the hashtag #ActuateBCD.

Actuate and BIRT Customer Day Registration

The Actuate and BIRT customer days are open to Actuate's licensed customers, resellers, certified partners and analysts, as well as registered BIRT Exchange users. For more detailed agenda 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.

About NASCO

Formed over 20 years ago through a partnership among several Blue Cross(R) and Blue Shield(R) Plans, NASCO provides information technology solutions designed to ensure that Plan members' insurance claims are paid accurately and efficiently. NASCO's Plan customers benefit from an integrated claims processing system, a highly configurable membership solution, and a multitude of performance-based services designed to improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs. Having processed over 1 billion claims, the NASCO Processing System is unsurpassed in the market for reliability, flexibility, scalability and operational performance.

For more information, visit the company's web site at www.nasco.com

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