Actuate to Host Customer Day in Japan at Westin Hotel Tokyo on November 22nd, 2013

Open to customers, developers, and others interested in open source BIRT and Actuate commercial software

TOKYO, Nov. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Actuate Corporation (http://www.actuate.com/home/) (NASDAQ: BIRT), The BIRT Company(TM) - delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined, today announced that registration is now open for Actuate Customer Day. Developers, IT executives, managers, and programmers are invited to attend the complimentary event to learn about the future of Actuate, and how solutions developed with BIRT and BIRT iHub increase customer engagement through personalized analytics and insights.

"An increasing number of companies are recognizing Big Data as a tool to help enhance the customer experience, and many are still grappling with how to extract deeper insights from it," said Oumi Miura, Representative Director & President, Actuate Japan. "Actuate Customer Day is designed to explore the future of data visualization, Big Data and business analytics applications. More than that, it's a collaborative environment where participants can interact with peers and Actuate experts while learning and sharing tips, tricks and techniques to empower customers and increase brand loyalty with personalized insights. The one-day session will provide attendees with technical and business tips, product demos, best practices and, of course, invaluable networking opportunities."

Actuate Customer Day will be held at Westin Hotel Tokyo on November 22nd from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. with the following sessions:

• CEO Keynote and Excellence Awards - Pete Cittadini, President and CEO of Actuate will be sharing how Actuate's scalable solutions can save time and improve brand experience as well as ways to engage customers with analytics.
• The Next Generation of BIRT iHub -This must-see live demo session will introduce the exciting new look and amazing new features of BIRT iHub 3, including integrated content management, enhanced data objects, and new HTML 5 visualizations.
• BIRT Analytics: Use Visual Data Mining for Customers Insights -Empowering business users to leverage Big Data, visual data mining and predictive analytics, this session will discuss how BIRT Analytics delivers insights to predict customer behavior and improve customer interactions.
• User Experience, Visualizations and Developer Tools - The latest BIRT iHUB release offers several advances in the areas of visualisation and end user experience. This session will explore the new simplified end user experience for BIRT iHUB as well as new HTML5-based data visualisations.

Registration for Actuate Customer Day is open until November 21st at the following site: http://pages.actuate.com/ACD-Q413-APAC-JP-CustomerDay_RegistrationPage.html. For more information about the event or for further questions, please contact Actuate at +03-5357-1631 or email jpinfo@actuate.com.