Tuesday December 14, 8:35 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
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
MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 14, 1999-- Sand Technology Systems International Inc. (Nasdaq:SNDT - news), a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, 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.' |
