Sand Technology is First to Market with Guaranteed SAP R/3 Business Intelligence Results
"Best of Breed" Solution Combines Sand Technology's Nucleus with Acta Technology's RapidMarts
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 28, 1999-- Sand Technology Systems International Inc. (NASDAQ:SNDT - news), a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, has announced today that it is partnering with Acta Technology, Inc. (Acta (TM)) to provide guaranteed and cost-effective BI results for users of SAP R/3.
Acta is a leading provider of data warehousing solutions for both internal decision support and business-to-business eCommerce. SAP R/3 is the widely implemented ERP (enterprise resource planning) system from SAP (NYSE: SAP - news). Both Sand and Acta will be featuring the Nucleus RapidMarts as
preferred solutions for the increasing numbers of customers seeking effective ways to handle BI applications with SAP.
Using the power of Sand Technology's Nucleus Exploration(TM), Acta's RapidMarts(TM),a suite of packaged data marts for analysis in specific business areas, can
be quickly implemented without ABAP programmers and without the extensive expertise and hardware typically required for SAP BI implementations. Using Nucleus, RapidMarts also allow for the full integration of decision support applications involving both SAP and non-SAP data.
``Until now, providing timely, high performance decision support for SAP installations was an expensive, time-consuming, and often disappointing experience,' said
Duncan Painter, General Manager of Sand Technology's European operations. ``By combining Nucleus and RapidMarts, we are now able to offer guaranteed implementation timeframes and costs for BI solutions to SAP customers, with levels of performance and flexibility unheard-of in other approaches.'
Sand Technology customer Lansing Linde, a subsidiary of Linde AG (the world's largest manufacturer of materials-handling equipment), spoke highly of the new
solution. ``Nucleus was the only solution we examined which provided us with an easy and effective way to automatically extract, prepare and consolidate our enterprise and departmental data from eight different computer systems, eight separate truck databases, and eight separate parts databases,' said John Spittal, Lansing Linde's director of IT. This Lansing Linde implementation of Nucleus was most recently featured in Information Week Magazine.
The Nucleus-powered RapidMarts are available for a broad range of SAP applications, including Cost Analysis, Sales Analysis, Human Resources, Inventory Management, and Account Analysis. RapidMarts are powered by ActaWorks(TM), Acta's award-winning extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) platform (DBMS Magazine: Editor's Choice).
``Sand Technology's Nucleus system provides an ideal foundation for Acta's acclaimed extraction and analysis capabilities ,' said Carol Mills Baldwin, President and
CEO of Acta Technology. ``Nucleus's unique speed of implementation and ability to produce quick responses to any questions of any data provide a real break-through for scalable, cost-effective SAP Business Intelligence solutions.'
About Sand Technology
Sand Technology Systems International Inc. provides high performance, scalable software solutions for data mining, data marts, data warehouses and online analytical processing (OLAP). Sand's Nucleus product suite brings patented technology to the business user allowing for more timely and accurate decision processing within the disconnected client, desktop, workgroup, departmental and enterprise computing environments. Supporting industries and vertical markets like Retail, Finance, Healthcare, Transportation, Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Government and Insurance Nucleus is used for corporate initiatives such as
customer relationship management, risk analysis and management, product trend and profitability analysis, fraud detection, emerging markets, competitive analysis
and quality control. Sand has commercial relationships with IBM, Oracle, Compaq Computer Corporation, Microsoft, SAIC, GE, Brio Technology, Information Builders Inc. and Wyle Systems. Sand Technology can be reached on the World Wide Web at sandtechnology.com.
About Acta Technology
Founded in 1996, Acta Technology, Inc. is a leading provider of data warehousing solutions for both internal decision support and business-to-business eCommerce. Acta RapidMarts, a suite of pre-configured data warehouses for specific areas of business analysis, are powered by ActaWorks, an award-winning extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) platform.
Acta recently announced Acta e2e(TM), a new architecture for integrating ERP and other back-office data with Web applications. Based on Acta's data warehousing products, e2e extends Acta's core technology beyond intra-company decision support to the eCommerce market.
Acta Technology is an active member of the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP) and PeopleSoft Global Alliance Program. ActaWorks has been certified by PeopleSoft, and the Acta SAP BW interface has been certified by SAP. Acta customers include Chevron (NYSE: CHV - news), Guinness,
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP - news), IBM (NYSE: IBM - news), Monsanto (NYSE: MTC - news), Shell Chemical Company, and other Global 1000 companies. Acta is headquartered at 1001 Elwell Court, Palo Alto, CA 94304, and has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Amersfoort (the Netherlands). Sales and partnership inquiries should be directed to Acta's toll-free phone number 1-888-613-3282. For more information, visit the company's Web site at acta.com.
All Rights Reserved. Nucleus, Nucleus Server and N-Vector are registered trademarks and Nucleus Exploration Mart, Nucleus Exploration Warehouse, Nucleus Virtual Database (VDB), Nucleus Powered! and Nucleus E! are trademarks of Sand Technology Systems International Inc.
Acta, ActaWorks, RapidMart, and e2e are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc.
All other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Sand Technology Systems
Kevin Horigan, 410/418-5426
kevin.horigan@sandtechnology.com
or
Acta Technology, Inc.
Giovanni Rodriguez, 650/847-5307
grodriguez@acta.com |
