Actuate Names HealthNow 2009 Excellence Award Winner for Performance Management

November 3, 2009 9:30 AM EST

HealthNow New York Recognized for Departmental Scorecarding

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 HealthNow New York Inc., a leading health solutions organizations. The Actuate Excellence Awards recognize innovation and impressive return on investment among Actuate customers and BIRT users.

HealthNow has been awarded an Excellence Award in the Perfect Slice category for its departmental scorecarding based on BIRT Performance Scorecard (formally known as Performancesoft Views). The winning solution HealthNow implemented aided its Government Programs strategic business unit (SBU) with the creation of a scorecard framework for better identification and alignment of roles, responsibilities and accountability.

"BIRT Performance Scorecard, which is used by all management staff within our SBU, helps ensure that our key performance indicators are aligned with, linked to and support HealthNow's strategic objectives," said Deb Kurczewski, corporate performance management architect, HealthNow. "With our Performance Management initiative, we have been able to provide a high-level snapshot into our operations and drive meaningful discussion among SBU leadership which has enabled us to take appropriate actions to improve our performance. BIRT Performance Scorecard also helps our SBU's management communicate more effectively with each other and keeps us focused on the metrics that drive our operation."

The results of HealthNow's Performance Management initiative have been achieved through the promotion of visibility and awareness. The ROI is measureable and accomplished by continuously challenging the data, the targets, and accompanying commentary/action plan narrative with rich visibility into the SBU to drive performance improvement.

"We congratulate HealthNow as a 2009 Actuate Excellence Award winner for their innovative Performance Management initiative using BIRT Performance Scorecard," said Nobby Akiha, senior vice president, marketing, Actuate. "HealthNow is a shining example of how Actuate technologies can be the perfect slice for driving performance."

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 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.

HealthNow New York is one of New York State's leading health insurance and employee benefit solution companies serving members across upstate New York. Headquartered in Buffalo, NY, HealthNow does business as BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, BlueShield of Northeastern New York, HealthNow New York, and Brokerage Concepts Inc. (BCI). In 2008, company revenues grew to nearly $2.27 billion.

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    Source: Actuate Corporation

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