(May 13, 2003) - Actuate Corp. has just announced Actuate Active Portal for .NET, a new component of Actuate 7 that enables organizations who have standardized on the Microsoft platform to rapidly build and deploy information applications. Active Portal for .NET deepens the integration between Actuate 7 and the Microsoft environment, building on Actuate 7's scalability on the Windows 2000 platform and Actuate's support for Microsoft Excel-based reporting with e.Spreadsheets.

Actuate Active Portal for .NET provides Visual Studio.NET developers who are building information applications, such as performance dashboards or information portals, with a set of prebuilt ASP.NET pages and a comprehensive library of ASP.NET user controls. The result is faster delivery of information applications, while minimizing additional training costs.

Using Active Portal for .NET, developers can tailor their Web-based user interface for information applications or seamlessly integrate reporting and analytic content from the Actuate iServer with their existing ASP-based applications. As a result, users across the enterprise will have intuitive, zero-training access to key enterprise data, deployed efficiently to meet their evolving requirements.

Actuate's new Active Portal for .NET is available immediately along with Active Portal for JSP with the Actuate iServer.