Sand Technology - Nucleus Product Suite Chosen as the 1998 World Class
Solution for Outstanding Product Innovation by DM Review
MILWAUKEE, Wis. and MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 1998--
(NASDAQ:SNDCF)
Nucleus' Dramatic Impact on Business Users and Technologists Proves Essential
for Warehouse, Mart and OLAP Environments
DM Review today awarded to Sand Technology Systems International Inc., the
1998 World Class Solution Award for Outstanding Product Innovation for Sand's
Nucleus Product Suite. The products recognized in the award were Nucleus
Exploration Mart, Nucleus Exploration Warehouse, Nucleus Prototype Mart and
Nucleus Prototype Warehouse.
Well known for its industry leadership in the data warehouse, data mart and
OLAP markets, DM Review continues its commitment to its corporate readers,
industry analysts, consulting organizations, and information technology
providers by annually recognizing the best emerging and truly innovative
technology that will have the greatest impact on the data warehouse and data
mart markets.
"We are very pleased to be chosen for this award," said Kevin Horigan,
executive vice president, Sand Technology. "Reviews from customers,
analysts, consultants and other technology providers have been very favorable
towards Nucleus and this award is a significant validation step for us in
providing world class software solutions." Claudia Imhoff, president,
Intelligent Solutions, Inc., states, "Sand Technology has developed one of the
most innovative technologies for use in the data warehousing arena in years.
Their new product, Nucleus, will cause all of us to rethink our data
warehouse/data mart design, construction and usage. It revolutionizes the
database market by finally giving us a technology to easily, efficiently and
inexpensively perform the difficult but very rewarding process of mining our
data-a process that previously was all but impossible."
Nucleus was chosen for this award based on its inherent abilities to:
-quickly and effectively acquire, assimilate and validate data for speeding
data warehouse and data mart implementations in Oracle, Sybase, Red Brick,
SQL Server, DB2 and Teradata environments;
- provide truly ad hoc, iterative, explorative processing of business
questions for current warehouses and marts such as Oracle, Sybase, Red Brick
and SQL Server;
- allow enterprises just embarking on data warehouse projects to start with a
highly scalable, compatible product capable of validating and investigating
their data in the shortest possible time frame;
- allow business users to ask and, more importantly, get rapid answers to
their most complex business questions; and
- provide enterprise-wide scalabilty, implement cost-effective deployment,
increase corporate productivity and deliver unprecedented ROI to the warehouse
and mart initiatives.
"Nucleus' impact to the business user and technology professional is
profound," says Ron Powell, publisher, DM Review. "With Nucleus, business
users can now ask the most complex, ad hoc, exploratory questions of their
enterprise data warehouse or data mart. Clearly, this is a significant
paradigm shift because currently business users are constrained from such free
thinking."
Doug Lynn, senior research analyst, Meta Group added, "Nucleus has already
proven to respond to the level of query uncertainty, processing power,
flexibility and performance demanded by power users. It does so without
expensive and infrastructure-heavy architectures commonly seen in today's
data warehousing implementations. Moreover, Nucleus supports On-line
Database Publishing (OLDP), an essential approach for supporting the
challenging and diverse data analysis requirements of increasingly remote and
disconnected users in a cost-containable and manageable fashion."
About DM Review Magazine
DM Review, published monthly by Powell Publishing, is the leading publication
addressing the needs of corporations and their users who are adopting
solutions in pursuit of competitive advantage through data warehouse, data
mart, OLAP and business intelligence initiatives. DM Review delivers data
warehouse issues and solutions to executive and IT management. Its editorial
provides a wealth of knowledge through top industry experts, third-party
product reviews, analyst columns and executive interviews. The World Class
Solution Award for Outstanding Product Innovation is an annual publisher's
choice award. To further help manage data, users are encouraged to visit
DMREVIEW.com and Data-Warehouse.com.
About Sand Technology
Sand Technology Systems International Inc., provides high performance,
scalable software solutions for data mining, data marts, data warehouses and
on-line analytical processing (OLAP). The 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. The Nucleus suite of
products is marketed by some of the leading technology companies, including
Sand Technology's affiliate, Hitachi Data Systems.
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