Acta Technology Helps Add Business Intelligence Capabilities to Major ERP Vendors
M. Reed - January 7, 2000

Event Summary

'Montreal, Quebec--December 14, 1999 - Sand Technology Systems International Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDT), a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, announced today that it is partnering with Acta Technology, Inc. (ActaÖ) 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). 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 ExplorationÖ, Acta's RapidMartsÖ,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. 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 ActaWorksÖ, Acta's award-winning extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) platform (DBMS Magazine: Editor's Choice).'..