KPMG Consulting Chooses Sand's Nucleus

Sand Technology Inc revealed that its Nucleus product suite, the award winning set of data warehousing tools, has been chosen by KPMG, the global consulting firm, to help implement large scale integrated business intelligence projects for its clients.

Video of KPMG and Nucleus can be viewed online via www.sandtechnology.com.

KPMG specializes in large-scale complex data-warehousing and business intelligence projects and is currently implementing Nucleus as part of a recently won contract for a major UK mobile telecommunications company. Nucleus is now named as a recommended product in all of their data warehousing practice bids.

"Data warehousing offers our clients the ability to access and integrate data and turn it into information, which can be used to create competitive advantage," says Carl Ward, Director of Data Warehousing at KPMG. "Nucleus will enable us to complete large-scale projects, which would traditionally take six to twelve months, far quicker, so that we can show our clients how the data and a solution would actually look in a drastically reduced cycle time. This proof of concept facility is obviously hugely beneficial to any organization."

"Nucleus will drastically reduce the amount of time we spend training our staff, since there is no real learning curve, and we are confident that our employees will quickly gain insights into both Nucleus technology and, most importantly, our clients' business requirements. We are impressed that Sand Technology has been actively involved in both the design and build phase of the projects. As an organization it shares our visionary business aspirations and I am delighted to say that the service we have received, at all stages, has been absolutely first rate."

Nucleus allows fast and simple data acquisition, assimilation, and validation. It allows data warehouse development to be completed within days, instead of the typical months or even years, and requires up to 70 per cent less manpower to complete a typical implementation. Further, using Nucleus, end users have access to the data throughout the process to allow the proposed reporting suite to be structured and refined from day one.

Nucleus can also be deployed as a powerful analytical processing tool for end users of existing data marts and warehouses. The product addresses the need to perform iterative, ad hoc, forensic queries of data, involving drill down often not envisioned during an original design of the data warehouse/mart. The patented data storage techniques of Nucleus allow any question to be asked and answered in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days.

Nucleus, which is available for both 64-bit Unix and 32-bit Windows NT and 95/98 platforms, has already picked up a succession of prestigious awards in North America and was voted the 1998 World Class Solution, Database Engine of the Year for data warehousing and data mart by DM Review, North America's leading business intelligence and data warehousing magazine.

About KPMG

KPMG is a global firm serving clients in 159 countries. It is a leading provider of advisory services to businesses within the UK, offering total business solutions to clients tailored to their particular industry sector. This is achieved through an extensive understanding of industry specific issues and trends.

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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