Exhibit 99.1

Actuate Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results

+ Record Annual BIRT License Business of $16.2 million Up 70% Year-over-year;

+ Total Q4 License Revenue Up 13% Year-over-year;

+ Q4 Non-GAAP Operating Margins of 27.5%;

+ Q4 Non-GAAP Fully Diluted EPS Up 25% Over Prior Year to $0.15;

+ Annual Non-GAAP Fully Diluted EPS of $0.49.

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 30, 2012--Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT) - The people behind BIRT^® and the leader in open source Business Intelligence, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2011.

Fourth Quarter 2011 Financial and Operational Highlights:

• License revenue of $13.3 million, up 13% year-over-year;
• Q4 included 3 transactions with a license revenue component in excess of $1.0 million;
• Non-GAAP revenue of $35.3 million, an increase of 8% from the same period a year ago;
• Non-GAAP operating income of $9.7 million, up 23% year-over-year;
• Non-GAAP operating margins of 27.5%, up 340 basis points from the year ago quarter;
• Non-GAAP fully diluted EPS of $0.15 up 25% year-over-year;
• Total cash and short-term investments, net of debt, of $67.4 million, an increase of $28.1 million from a year ago;
• Operating cash flow of $6.9 million;
• The Company repurchased $5.0 million worth of stock.

Fiscal Year 2011 Financial and Operational Highlights:

• Record annual BIRT license business of $16.2 million, up 70% year-over-year;
• Annual non-GAAP revenue of $135.0 million;
• Annual license revenues of $49.2 million;
• Record annual non-GAAP operating margin of 24% and non-GAAP net income margin of 19%;
• Record annual GAAP operating margin of 15%;
• Record annual fully diluted non-GAAP EPS of $0.49;
• Annual operating cash flow of $21.2 million;
• Booked 205 BIRT license transactions during 2011, up 22 year-over-year;
• Paid off $40 million in outstanding debt.

“Actuate has demonstrated stellar execution during 2011, as evidenced by record BIRT license business, increased average order size and expanding operating margins,” said Pete Cittadini, CEO and President of Actuate Corporation. “By continued investment in growth during 2012, we will drive commercial adoption for our value added BIRT offerings and accelerate a strong baseline business for our company’s future.”

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Revenues as reported in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $35.3 million, up 9% when compared with $32.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. License revenues for the fourth quarter of 2011 were $13.3 million, up 13% when compared with $11.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. Service revenues for the quarter were $22.1 million, compared with $20.6 million reported in the same quarter last year.

GAAP operating income was $7.8 million for the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with $5.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $5.0 million, or $0.10 per diluted share, compared with net income of $2.7 million, or $0.05 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2010. Non-GAAP net income for the fourth quarter of 2011 was $7.9 million, or $0.15 per diluted share, compared with non-GAAP net income of $6.0 million, or $0.12 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2010. Non-GAAP operating margin for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 27.5%.

Total revenues as reported in accordance with GAAP for the fiscal year of 2011 were $134.9 million, up 3% when compared with $131.5 million in the prior year. 2010 GAAP revenues included an $11.0 million licensing dispute resolution. License revenues for 2011 were $49.2 million, unchanged when compared to the prior year, which included $8.9 million related to the licensing dispute resolution. Services revenues for 2011 were $85.8 million, compared with $82.3 million in the prior year. 2010 services revenues included $2.1 million related to the licensing dispute resolution.

For 2011, operating income as reported in accordance with GAAP was $20.9 million, compared with $17.6 million in the prior year. GAAP net income for 2011 was $12.0 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared with $10.6 million, or $0.22 per diluted share in 2010. For the full fiscal year, non-GAAP net income was $25.5 million, or $0.49 per diluted share, compared with $23.9 million, or $0.48 per diluted share, in the prior year. Non-GAAP operating margins for 2011 were a record 24%, compared with 23% for the prior year. Non-GAAP net income margins for 2011 were a record 19%.

Cash flow from operations was $6.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2011. Fiscal year 2011 cash flow from operations was $21.2 million. Cash and short term investments, net of debt, totaled $67.4 million on December 31, 2011, up $28.1 million from $39.3 million as of December 31, 2010.

2011 Business Highlights:

BIRT:

• 2011 BIRT license business originating from Eclipse BIRT users up over 12% year over year;
• There are now over 1.5 million developers currently using BIRT worldwide;
• According to research conducted by Evans Data Corporation, more than 1.1 million software developers in India are currently using or plan to use BIRT in the next 12 months to build Business Intelligence, data visualizations and information delivery applications;
• Strong influence of open source BIRT usage among OEM deals;
• In 2011 there were almost 4,500 registrations for BIRT Roadshows across scores of cities worldwide, the largest of which took place in Bangalore, India;
• Booked 205 BIRT licence transactions in 2011 up 22 year-over-year.

Customers:

• Added 170 new customers (primarily BIRT) in 2011;
• During 2011 there were 10 deals with a licence component of greater than a million;
• 249 deals greater than $100,000 during 2011.

Product Launches:

• BIRT Performance Analytics: a solution built on the unified ActuateOne platform to help organizations drive tangible business improvements;
• BIRT Mobile Business Intelligence for Android™: to enable mobile application developers to easily deploy custom BI, dashboards, analytics, reports and interactive content natively on Android mobile devices;
• X2BIRT: to leverage unstructured, previously dormant data sources for ActuateOne-based BI applications;
• Big data: Hadoop support and services for BIRT based custom BI and information applications.

Recognition & Awareness:

• Actuate Xenos Enterprise Server™ was named Software Product of the Year at the 2011 Document Management Industry Awards, for the second consecutive year;
• BIRT Mobile ranked as one of the leading mobile Business Intelligence (BI) solutions in the Dresner Advisory Services (DAS) “Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study” report;
• Actuate recognized as the top performing open source Business Intelligence (BI) vendor according to the second annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ™, conducted by independent advisory firm Dresner Advisory Services (DAS);
• Hosted 6 ActuateOne Live! events, attracting over 800 registrations in San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt and Singapore.

During the fourth quarter, Actuate received significant new and repeat business from, among others: AEGON UK, Access Data Corp., ADP Canada, American Express Company, Bank of America Corporation, Banque Cantonale de Genève, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., CA, Inc., Callidus Software Inc., Choice Hotels International, Inc., Cisco Systems (ACS), Deutsche Bank, DHL Global Forwarding, Discover Financial Services, Elcom International, Inc., France Telecom, IMCO Ltd (aka. FUNDWORKS), Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc., Mzinga, Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, S1 Corporation, Shaw Communications Inc., Societe Generale North America, Inc (De Corp), Stadtwerke München GmbH, SunAmerica Ventures, Inc., Tennessee Valley Authority and Wells Fargo & Company.

Conference Call Information

Actuate’s management will be holding a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET) today, January 30th, 2012 to further discuss these results. The dial-in number for the call is 877-407-8035 (201-689-8035 for international participants) and the conference ID is #386787. The conference call will be broadcast live on the Investor Relations section of Actuate’s web site at http://www.actuate.com/investor and will be available as an archived replay for a limited time thereafter.

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 visualisations, including interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping organisations drive revenue through higher customer satisfaction and improved operational performance.

Actuate has over 5,000 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.

Discussion of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release contains financial measures that are not calculated in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Actuate management evaluates and makes operating decisions using various performance measures. In addition to our GAAP results, we also consider adjusted net income, which we refer to as non-GAAP net income. We further consider various components of non-GAAP net income such as non-GAAP gross margin and non-GAAP operating expense. Non-GAAP net income is generally based on the revenues of our product, maintenance and services business operations and the costs of those operations, such as cost of revenue, research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses, that management considers in evaluating our ongoing core operating performance. Non-GAAP net income consists of net income excluding amortization and impairment of intangible assets, equity plan-related compensation expenses, acquisition related expenses, restructuring charges, other one-time termination costs, foreign currency exchange gains and losses related to the revaluation of monetary assets and liabilities and other charges and gains which management does not consider reflective of our core operating business. Non-GAAP net income also includes an adjustment to add back revenue that could not be recognized due to the impact of purchase accounting on the acquired Xenos revenue contracts. Intangible assets consist primarily of purchased technology, in-process research and development, trade names, customer relationships, employment agreements and other intangible assets issued in connection with acquisitions. Restructuring charges consist of severance and benefits, excess facilities and asset-related charges and include strategic reallocations or reductions of personnel resources. Equity plan-related compensation expenses represent the fair value of all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options recognized during the period. For purposes of comparability across other periods and against other companies in our industry, non-GAAP net income is adjusted by the amount of additional taxes or tax benefit that the Company would accrue using a normalized effective tax rate applied to the non-GAAP results. Our non-GAAP earnings per share calculation also includes an adjustment to total outstanding shares to reflect what the share amount would have been if it were calculated using non-GAAP results.

Non-GAAP net income is a supplemental measure of our performance that is not required by, nor presented in accordance with, GAAP. Moreover, it should not be considered as an alternative to net income, operating income, or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP, or as an alternative to cash flow from operating activities or as a measure of our liquidity. We present non-GAAP net income because we consider it an important supplemental measure of our performance.

Management excludes from non-GAAP net income certain recurring items to facilitate its review of the comparability of the Company's core operating performance on a period-to-period basis because such items are not related to the Company's ongoing core operating performance as viewed by management. Management uses this view of its operating performance for purposes of comparison with its business plan and individual operating budgets and allocations of resources. Additionally, when evaluating potential acquisitions, management excludes the items described above from its consideration of target performance and valuation.

The Company believes that, in general, these items possess one or more of the following characteristics: their magnitude and timing is largely outside of the Company's control; they are unrelated to the ongoing operation of the business in the ordinary course; they are unusual and the Company does not expect them to occur in the ordinary course of business; or they are non-operational, or non-cash expenses involving stock option grants.

The Company believes that the presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is warranted for several reasons:

1) Such non-GAAP financial measures provide an additional analytical tool for understanding the Company's financial performance by excluding the impact of items that may obscure trends in the core operating performance of the business;

2) Since the Company has historically reported non-GAAP results to the investment community, the Company believes the inclusion of non-GAAP numbers provides consistency and enhances investors' ability to compare the Company's performance across financial reporting periods;

3) These non-GAAP financial measures are employed by the Company's management in its own evaluation of performance and are utilized in financial and operational decision making processes, such as budget planning and forecasting;

4) These non-GAAP financial measures facilitate comparisons to the operating results of other companies in our industry, which use similar financial measures to supplement their GAAP results, thus enhancing the perspective of investors who wish to utilize such comparisons in their analysis of the Company's performance.

Set forth below are additional reasons why specific items are adjusted in the Company's non-GAAP financial measures:

a) Amortization charges for purchased technology and other intangible assets are excluded because they are inconsistent in amount and frequency and are significantly impacted by the timing and magnitude of the Company's acquisition transactions. We analyze and measure our operating results without these charges when evaluating our core performance. Generally, the impact of these charges to the Company's net income tends to diminish over time following an acquisition.

b) While stock-based compensation constitutes an ongoing and recurring expense of the Company, it is not an expense that typically requires or will require cash settlement by the Company. We therefore exclude these charges for purposes of evaluating our core performance as well as with respect to evaluating any potential acquisition.

c) Restructuring charges and other one-time termination costs are primarily related to severance costs and/or the disposition of excess facilities driven by modifications of business strategy. These costs are excluded because they are inherently variable in size, and are not specifically included in the Company's annual operating plan and related budget due to the rapidly changing facts and circumstances typically associated with such modifications of business strategy.

d) Acquisition related costs are costs incurred in concluding our acquisition of Xenos Group, Inc. The acquisition was closed in February 2010. These costs are excluded because they are inconsistent in amount and frequency and are directly impacted by the timing and magnitude of the Company's acquisition transactions. We analyze and measure our operating results without these charges when evaluating our core performance. These acquisition-related costs are unrelated to the Company's core operations in the ordinary course and are not included in our annual operating plan and related budget.

e) The deferred revenue adjustment relates to our acquisition of Xenos Group, Inc, which was concluded in February 2010. In accordance with the fair value provisions of Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 805, Business Combination, acquired deferred revenue of approximately $1.5 million was recorded on the opening balance sheet, which was approximately $3.3 million lower than the historical carrying value. This purchase accounting requirement adversely impacts the Company's reported GAAP revenue primarily for the first twelve months post-acquisition. In order to provide investors with financial information that facilitates comparison of both historical and future results, the Company has provided non-GAAP financial measures which exclude the impact of the purchase accounting adjustment. The Company believes that this non-GAAP financial adjustment is useful to investors because it allows investors to (a) evaluate the effectiveness of the methodology and information used by management in its financial and operational decision-making and (b) compare past and future reports of financial results of the Company as the revenue reduction related to acquired deferred revenue will not recur when related terms are renewed in future periods.

f) Foreign currency exchange gains and losses represent the net gain or loss that Actuate has recorded for the impact of currency exchange rate movements on monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies related to the revaluation of these assets and liabilities. Actuate presents non-GAAP financial information excluding foreign exchange gains and losses for several reasons. These foreign currency gains and losses are generally unpredictable and can cause Actuate’s reported results to vary significantly. The magnitude and timing of these gains and losses are largely outside of Actuate’s control because Actuate has not engaged in hedging or taken other actions to reduce the likelihood of incurring a sizeable net gain or loss in future periods. Management believes that these gains and losses are unrelated to the ongoing operation of its business in the ordinary course and are non-operational. Management therefore excludes these items for the purposes of evaluating core performance and they are not specifically included in the Company’s annual operating plans, budgets or management compensation structure. Actuate believes that investors benefit from a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure that excludes these items because it allows more meaningful comparability of results between periods and enables investors to compare Actuate’s core operating results in different periods without this variability.

The determination that it would be meaningful to exclude these foreign currency exchange gains and losses was made in the second quarter of 2011. In prior periods the Company did not exclude these FX gains and losses from non-GAAP results. Therefore, in order to make the prior periods comparable and meaningful, it was necessary to adjust prior period non-GAAP results to also exclude the impact of the foreign currency exchange gains and losses primarily related to the revaluation of monetary assets and liabilities.

g) Asset impairment costs are excluded because they inherently vary in size and are not specifically included in the Company's annual operating plan. Furthermore, asset impairment charges do not typically require any cash outlay and the timing of such impairments is largely outside of the Company's control.

h) Income tax expense is adjusted by the amount of additional expense or benefit that we would accrue if we used non-GAAP results instead of GAAP results in the calculation of our tax liability, taking into consideration the Company's long-term tax structure. The Company is using a normalized effective tax rate of 20%. This adjustment is made because the rate remains subject to change based on several factors, including variations over time in the geographic business mix and statutory tax rates. This non-GAAP estimated tax rate is reviewed annually. Currently, the Company is trending towards a higher actual effective tax rate.. Therefore for 2012, we intend to increase the non-GAAP tax rate to 30%.

In the future, the Company expects to continue reporting non-GAAP financial measures excluding items described above and the Company expects to continue to incur expenses similar to the non-GAAP adjustments described above. Accordingly, exclusion of these and other similar items in our non-GAAP presentation should not be construed as an inference that these costs are unusual, infrequent or non-recurring.

As stated above, the Company presents non-GAAP financial measures because it considers them to be important supplemental measures of performance. However, non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the Company's GAAP results. In the future, the Company expects to incur expenses similar to the non-GAAP adjustments described above and expects to continue reporting non-GAAP financial measures excluding such items. Some of the limitations in relying on non-GAAP financial measures are:

• Amortization of intangibles, though not directly affecting our current cash position, represent the loss in value as the technology in our industry evolves, is advanced or is replaced over time. The expense associated with this loss in value is not included in the non-GAAP net income presentation and therefore does not reflect the full economic effect of the ongoing cost of maintaining our current technological position in our competitive industry, which is addressed through our research and development program.
• The Company may engage in acquisition transactions in the future. Merger and acquisition related charges may therefore continue to be incurred and should not be viewed as non-recurring.
• The Company's employee equity incentive and employee stock purchase plans are important components of our incentive compensation arrangements and will be reflected as expenses in our GAAP results for the foreseeable future.
• The Company's income tax expense will be ultimately based on its GAAP taxable income and actual tax rates in effect, which may differ significantly from the 20% rate assumed in our non-GAAP presentation.
• Other companies, including other companies in our industry, may calculate non-GAAP financial measures differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as a comparative measure.

Pursuant to the requirements of SEC Regulation G, a detailed reconciliation between the Company's GAAP and non-GAAP financial results is provided in this press release and is available in the investor relations section of the Company's web site for a limited time at http://www.actuate.com/investor. Investors are advised to carefully review and consider this information strictly as a supplement to the GAAP results that are contained in this press release and in the Company's SEC filings.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements: The statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These include statements regarding Actuate’s expectations, beliefs, hopes, intentions or strategies regarding the future. All such forward-looking statements are based upon information available to Actuate as of the date hereof, and Actuate disclaims any obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements based on changes in expectations or the circumstances or conditions on which such expectations may be based. Actual results could differ materially from Actuate’s current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the general spending environment for information technology products and services in general and Rich Internet Application, performance management, business intelligence and print stream software in particular, quarterly fluctuations in our revenues and other operating results, our ability to expand our international operations, our ability to successfully compete against current and future competitors, the impact of acquisitions on the Company’s financial and/or operating condition, the ability to increase revenues through our indirect distribution channels, general economic and geopolitical uncertainties and other risk factors that are discussed in Actuate’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including Actuate 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 11, 2011.

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