Actuate and Strategy Focused Business Solutions Deliver Leading Performance Management Solutions for Healthcare Industry

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTU), the leader in delivering Rich Internet Applications Without Limits™, announced today that it is working with Strategy Focused Business Solutions, a firm providing strategic planning, business performance management and improvement consulting, to deliver robust, end-to-end Performance Management solutions for the healthcare industry. Through the use of an effective Performance Management solution such as that provided by Actuate and Strategy Focused Business Solutions, healthcare organizations can focus tight resources toward the areas that matter most to achieving their aims. By linking operational data in critical areas such as patient services, clinical excellence and environment to the organization’s own strategic objectives, managers and employees can track improvements in line with corporate targets.

With hospitals and other healthcare providers facing increasing pressure from higher patient expectations, industry regulators and insurance providers, healthcare organizations must create an effective performance management solution to manage critical issues. In a constantly evolving healthcare environment driven by financial and human resource constraints, organizations are seeking new ways to manage their performance in order to stay ahead of the curve and are looking for a proven solution that can be delivered quickly and reliably.

Strategy Focused Business Solutions underpins its strategic planning and business performance management consulting with expertise in process improvement, change management and strategy-focused initiatives. Familiarity with Actuate came from their experience implementing the Actuate Performancesoft Suite to deliver a comprehensive performance management solution to Bridgepoint Health. A University of Toronto community affiliated teaching hospital, Bridgepoint Health is deploying the Actuate Performancesoft Suite to implement its new performance management strategy. This includes applying the Balanced Scorecard approach to manage its organization more effectively in line with new strategic objectives around service delivery and operational efficiency.

“Our mutual customers will achieve tremendous results by adding Strategy Focused Business Solutions’ analytical skills and industry experience to the Rich Internet Application visualization capabilities of the Actuate Performancesoft Suite,” said Daniel Kube, VP Marketing and Alliances. “We have seen growth in performance management initiatives in healthcare, and we are confident that the industry and domain expertise from Strategy Focused Business Solutions will add value to the performance management programs of our new and existing customers. We look forward to working with Strategy Focused Business Solutions to promote the Actuate Performancesoft Suite in the healthcare and rehabilitation industries.”

"Both of our firms are dedicated to helping organizations implement a customized Performance Management approach that will help them achieve their business objectives and build a strategy-focused organization,” said Sandy Richardson, Managing Consultant, Strategy Focused Business Solutions. “With a proven relationship and end-to-end performance management solution already in place, we are looking forward to working with Actuate to help companies in healthcare and other business sectors achieve quantifiable results in performance improvement."

For more information on Actuate and Strategy Focused Business Solutions visit: http://www.actuate.com/strategy-focused-business-solutions

To learn more about Actuate’s solutions for Healthcare, visit: www.actuate.com/solutions/for-your-industry/healthcare-providers.

About Strategy Focused Business Solutions

Strategy Focused Business Solutions Inc., is a specialty consulting firm that provides strategic planning, Performance Management framework, and business Performance Management and improvement consulting to organizations, strategic business units, and functional teams in all business sectors. More information can be found at www.sfo-consulting.com.

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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