Sand's Nucleus Selected for e-Commerce Pattern Analysis

Sand Technology Inc announced that its Nucleus product suite has been selected by an internet-based health services company to build a "clickstream" analysis application.

A Nucleus data mart will be used to provide demographic and usage analysis of both visitors and members of the service to help position better e-based marketing.

"The Nucleus technology is ideally-suited to this critical area for ecommerce, as initial usage patterns are unpredictable, and our unique tokenized method of storing and providing data for analysis means that we can build a flexible application very quickly," said Arthur Ritchie, Chief Executive Officer of Sand. "With the rapidly-changing environments of ecommerce providers, Nucleus will give them the ability to react immediately to new demands on their data."

"We are very excited about this new application area for Nucleus," added Jerry Shattner, president of Sand's North American operations. "There is strong demand for this type of customer understanding by all Web-based companies, and we see a high degree of repeatability in the Nucleus approach being implemented here for health services."

About Sand Technology

Sand Technology Inc 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. Supporting industries like retail, finance, healthcare, transportation, telecommunication, manufacturing, government and insurance, Nucleus is used for corporate initiatives such as customer relationship management, risk analysis and management, product trend and profitability analysis, fraud detection, emerging markets, competitive analysis and quality control. Sand has commercial relationships with IBM, Oracle, Compaq Computer Corporation, Microsoft, SAIC, GE, Brio Technology, Information Builders Inc, and Wyle Systems. Sand Technology can be reached on the World Wide Web at www.sandtechnology.com.

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