Information Builders and Sand Technology Systems International, Inc. announced an alliance which <A HREF="http://www.ibi.com.">integrates</A> Information Builders' SmartMart Copy Manager with Sand's Nucleus Exploration product suite. This integration provides users of Nucleus with the ability to 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.