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BASE Consulting Group and Acta Technology Partner to Deliver Business Intelligence Solutions

    OAKLAND, Calif., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- BASE Consulting Group, Inc., a
leading provider of consulting and training services in the areas of Data
Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions, today announced its
participation in Acta Technology's Certified Systems Integrator (CSI) partner
program.  Acta Technology provides software solutions that address the
challenges of building Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data warehouses.
    Acta's flagship product, ActaWorks, provides an intuitive graphical
interface for extracting data from either SAP or PeopleSoft, transforming and
cleansing the data, and loading it into a data warehouse or data mart.  In
addition, Acta has pre-packaged data marts called RapidMarts, which can be
quickly deployed to address specific areas of business analysis, such as sales
analysis or cost analysis.
    "We are very pleased to have been selected by Acta as a Certified Systems
Integration partner," said Jim Wirth, Co-founder and Managing Director of
Sales and Marketing at BASE Consulting Group.  "The demand for better access
to the data being processed and stored by ERP packages is significant, and
Acta's products have been very well received in the marketplace as a solution
for providing access to this data."
    "We found BASE Consulting Group to be a premier Systems Integration
Partner based on their outstanding reputation as leaders in providing data
warehousing solutions against enterprise applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft,
and Oracle Applications," said Opinder Bawa, Senior Director of Professional
Services at Acta Technology.  "Their strong customer commitment, knowledge of
the business functions relative to data warehousing in an ERP environment,
coupled with their proven technical experience in designing, implementing and
loading data warehouses, made BASE a prime candidate for Acta's Systems
Integration Partner program."

    About BASE Consulting Group, LLC
    BASE Consulting Group's consulting services are divided into four practice
lines.  The "Information Access" practice line focuses on data warehousing and
end-user reporting solutions for enterprise applications.  The "e-Business
Intelligence" practice line offers innovative Business Intelligence solutions
using thin-client and e-commerce technologies.  The "Strategic Technology
Consulting" practice line delivers consulting services in the areas of
Business Analysis, Business Process Consulting, Software Selection, Strategic
Business Systems Planning, and Temporary IS Management. The "Systems
Integration" practice line, focuses on data conversion and operational
reporting related to implementations of enterprise resource planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and other business applications.
    BASE also conducts training courses at the BASE Training Center in
Oakland, California, as well as at their client sites, and has leveraged their
expertise in business intelligence to develop a comprehensive Data Warehousing
Certificate program, which is offered through the University of California,
Berkeley Extension.
    BASE's customers include:  Acuson, Airtouch Cellular, Barclays Global
Investors, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Hitachi Data
Systems, Kaiser Permanente, McKesson HBOC, Nextel Communications, Occidental
Oil & Gas Corporation, Pacific Bell Directory, Silicon Graphics, and
Sun Microsystems.
    Information on BASE Consulting Group's consulting, training and software
sales services is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.baseconsulting.com or by phone at 510-628-3300.

    About Acta Technology, Inc.
    Founded in October 1996, and headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif.,
Acta Technology is the data warehouse industry's first vendor focused
exclusively on providing enterprise data warehouse solutions for packaged
client/server applications.  Initially focused on SAP AG and PeopleSoft,
Acta's solutions, which have been shipped to over 60 companies in 8 countries,
include pre-packaged data marts, called RapidMarts, built around the
industry's only extraction, transformation and loading tool, ActaWorks,
architected from inception to be very tightly integrated with ERP systems.
Acta is an independent software vendor (ISV) participating in the SAP
Complementary Software Program (CSP) and PeopleSoft's Global Alliance Program.
Acta customers include Chevron, Church & Dwight, the Arm & Hammer Company; FX
Meiller, Guinness Maxtor, Monsanto, Sanofi Winthrop, S-B Power Tools, a
division of Bosch GmbH; and Shell Chemical and Company.
    Information on Acta Technology can be obtained by contacting
Scott Humphrey of Humphrey Strategic Communications at 503-644-9709, or by
visiting Acta Technology's Web site at http://www.acta.com.


SOURCE BASE Consulting Group, Inc.




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    CONTACT:
    Jim Wirth of BASE Consulting Group, Inc.,
    510-628-3300, ext. 225