Tuesday February 8, 8:35 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Sand Technology's Nucleus Selected by Woolworths-Major Retailer Uses Nucleus Exploration Products to Improve Supply Chain Management
MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000--Sand Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: SNDT - news) today disclosed that Woolworths, one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom, has chosen Nucleus, Sand's award winning set of Business Intelligence tools, as part of a complete solution to help monitor and improve its supply chain between stores and warehouses.
``We were attracted to Nucleus because of its outstanding performance and ease of use', commented Andy Hicketts, Corporate Information Systems Manager at Woolworths. ``It allows us to provide detailed information to our analysts, and, unlike our previous enterprise solution, makes it much simpler, quicker and easier to obtain the information we need.
``We are using Nucleus to help us understand our supply chain performance', continued Hicketts. ``Nucleus will compliment our existing data warehouse system and allow us to optimize the supply chain to all of our 781 stores nation-wide, rather than just analysing a sample number of stores as we did previously. Now we can find the optimum solution for each individual outlet.'
The new system took just two months to set-up and is now running in all stores. Users in each store are able to access Nucleus and perform their own queries. ``Our aim is to provide data in the hands of users, so that we are able to measure availability, understand store deliveries and improve performance. The Nucleus system seems to be meeting all these requirements and more', added Hicketts.
Duncan Painter, the general manager of Sand Technology Europe said: ``The fact that Woolworths chose Nucleus when it decided to upgrade its data warehousing system proves the flexibility, durability and reliability of our product as it will have to cope with a diverse and complex number of queries on a constantly changing data set.'
``Sand Technology's Nucleus Exploration suite of products, which are available for both 64-bit Unix and 32-bit Windows NT and 95/98 platforms, have picked up a succession of prestigious awards and are being increasingly recognized as 'musts' for all Business Intelligence applications', added Painter.
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