Actuate Makes Fortune’s Elite list of Top 100 Small Businesses for 2009
Actuate One of Only Eleven Technology Companies to Achieve the Honor for the Past Two Consecutive Years
San Mateo, Calif., (July 14, 2009) –
Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people behind BIRT(TM), today announced that for the second year running, Actuate is being honored on FORTUNE magazine’s annual list of the 100 fastest growing, public companies in America. Every year, the editors of FORTUNE Small Business analyze public companies with annual revenues of less than $200 million and a stock price greater than $1 to determine which of these businesses are achieving the most rapid growth and success year over year. The companies are selected based on growth in earnings per share, revenues and stock performance over the past three years.
Through its award program FORTUNE honors elite public companies, such as Actuate, that are thriving despite the current economic downturn. Technology companies continue to dominate the FSB 100, with 30 technology companies making the list in 2009 vs. 25 in 2008. Actuate, having achieved the prestigious honor two years in a row, attributes its ongoing success to Eclipse BIRT, the premier rich information application development environment and top level Eclipse project founded and co-led by Actuate. As the basis of its commercial software offerings, BIRT is a growth driver of Actuate revenue.
“We stand firmly behind BIRT and are pleased that the growth and innovation we’ve seen in the BIRT community has been an active catalyst for Actuate’s continued success,,” said Pete Cittadini, president and chief executive officer at Actuate. “We have seen significant growth in our BIRT related activity, which allowed us to virtually double our BIRT related business in 2008. We are extremely pleased to be receiving this accolade for the second consecutive year, and I firmly believe it is a testament to the innovation and enthusiasm in the BIRT community combined with the incredible team we have here at Actuate. .
The FSB 100 list appears in the July/August issue of FORTUNE Small Business, available online now at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb100/2009/full_list/.
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Actuate – the people behind BIRT
Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project. ActuateOne is a unified suite of products for rapidly developing and deploying BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence applications and information applications. Applications built with ActuateOne provide one user experience regardless of task or skill level; are supported by one server for any deployment including cloud and are built with one BIRT design that can access and integrate any data source – including high volume print streams. ActuateOne adds rich data visualizations, including interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping organizations drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction and improved operational performance.
Actuate has over 4,700 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 BIRT. For more information, visit the company’s web site at www.actuate.com or visit the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.
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