Information Builders and Sand Technology Systems Announce
Product Integration and Joint Global Marketing
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Information Builders Inc. and Sand Technology Systems International Inc. announced a joint global marketing alliance which integrates Information Builders' industry-leading SmartMart Copy Manager with Sand's Nucleus Exploration product suite. Available immediately, the combined products give business users an easy and effective way to automatically extract and prepare enterprise and departmental data for loading into a Nucleus environment for extended decision support and analysis.
SmartMart Copy Manager is Information Builders' fully automated extraction, transformation and load tool (ETL), providing unmatched data access, powerful data manipulation and ease of use. Data access is provided through ODBC, or Information Builders' award-winning EDA middleware. Employing EDA technology, SmartMart Copy Manager provides extraction and transformation from over 70 database types on 35 platforms. This integration provides users of Nucleus the ability to transparently incorporate data from virtually any relational and nonrelational data source, including transactional systems such as CICS or IMS/TM, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Baan, Lotus and J.D. Edwards.
Sand's Nucleus Series can be used as a stand alone system or as an adjunct to existing data marts or warehouses. The Nucleus Prototype Mart is a prototyping and iterative development facility for data mart designers. Nucleus Exploration Mart complements existing decision support systems (DSS) and is a powerful analytical processing tool for end users, knowledge workers and power users. Nucleus is particularly valuable when users must perform iterative, ad hoc, and forensic queries of the data, which often involves drill-downs not envisioned during the original design of the data mart.
"Information Builders' SmartMart Copy Manager will give our clients fast and easy access to any data in their enterprises," said Kevin Horigan executive vice president, Sand. "Clients can now expect to see the power of Nucleus working with any of their enterprise data in a matter of days."
Jon Deutsch, general manager of Information Builders' data warehousing division stated, "The combination of Nucleus' power and flexibility with the enterprise reach of Information Builders' Copy Manager means that companies can derive new business value immediately from any corporate data source."
SmartMart provides all the tools necessary to build, use and manage a data warehousing system to solve business problems and deliver fast ROI. All of these software systems exploit Information Builders' common data access framework, providing robust access to virtually any database or application on any computer platform, and work with all security systems and network architectures. At the heart of this framework is Information Builders' award-winning EDA (Enterprise Data Access) middleware.
About Sand Technology
Sand Technology Systems International Inc. is based in Montreal, Canada and 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. Sand Technology can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.sandtechnology.com
About Information Builders
Information Builders supplies the market-leading middleware technology that enables today's Web-based systems to be integrated with enterprise-wide data and applications. The company extends that technology with cutting-edge Web tools for building decision support, reporting, and transaction processing applications. Headquartered in New York City, Information Builders employs over 1,700 professionals worldwide and earned revenues exceeding $287 million in 1997. Information Builders can be reached on the World Wide Web at http://www.ibi.com