Sand Technology and CeDimension Join Forces

Sand Technology Inc, a developer of high performance, scalable software systems for data mining, data marts, data warehouses and online analytical processing, and major European IT solution and service provider to Fortune 1000 companies, CeDimension, announce the signing of a European agreement for the distribution and support of a powerful and ground-breaking information delivery solution.

NUCLEUS, which will now become an integral part of the CeDimension ebusiness solution offering, has already proved of benefit to Sand's customers in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. By enabling fast and easy access to core business data across a typical heterogeneous, distributed IT environment, NUCLEUS offers a high-speed, low-cost means of satisfying the ever-fluctuating and unforeseeable demand for online information created by today's Internet- driven business world.

"We believe that the time is right to look to an established and well recognized team of sales and marketing professionals to maximize the NUCLEUS potential and take our product to market across Europe," states Garry Neale, Sales Director, Sand Technology Europe. "Although new in name, we saw that CeDimension had just the expertise, experience and infrastructure we required. With its network of sales, marketing and technical specialist teams located throughout Europe, each with many years of close contact and excellent relations with major business organizations in these regions behind them, we expect CeDimension to open all the right doors very quickly and to ensure that all new customers are given the highest possible level of service and support to match their individual needs."

"CeNUCLEUS, as it is now renamed by CeDimension, is an extremely valuable and timely addition to our solution offering. Working closely with our long standing customers and industry contacts, we have identified many major business organizations that are struggling to maintain their competitiveness in light of the pressures of e-business and consumer demand. The high costs and long delays inherent in traditional data warehousing and database management strategies make it difficult if not impossible to respond in time and within budget to both internal and external demand for information. CeNUCLEUS will enable us to offer our customers an almost instant business advantage and a vital means to future growth," continues Rodolfo Vick, president, CeDimension. "Having spent several months working with Sand Technology on an informal basis, we look forward to installing CeNUCLEUS on the Continent."

About Sand Technology

Sand Technology, with headquarters in Montreal, Canada and offices in the United Kingdom and the United States, provides 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, empowering more timely and accurate decision-making. Nucleus is being used in the Retail, Finance, Healthcare, Transportation, Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Government and Insurance sectors to support strategic corporate initiatives including: e-Business; CRM (Customer Relationship Management); SAP reporting; SCM (Supply Chain Management); risk analysis and management; new business; product trend and profitability analysis; fraud detection; emerging markets; competitive analysis, and quality control. Sand Technology has commercial relationships with IBM, Oracle, Compaq Computer Corporation, Microsoft, Brio Technology, Information Builders, and Wyle Systems. For more information, visit www.sandtechnology.com.

About CeDimension

CeDimension is a sales, marketing and support organization that specializes in the distribution and support of robust and proven IT solutions that enable businesses to rapidly gain full competitive advantage in e-business applications. Founded in 1999 by a group of experienced multinational software distribution professionals, CeDimension has the expertise and market knowledge required to identify, distribute and support high quality and effective IT solutions that meet the fast evolving needs of today's major business organizations. The company already has sales and support offices throughout Europe and in Israel, and is represented in the United States, South Africa, Latin America and Asia. The company's headquarters and central distribution and manufacturing operations are located in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, visit www.cedimension.com.

About CeNUCLEUS

CeNUCLEUS is a revolutionary and highly scalable business intelligence solution for high-performance, low-cost information delivery in dynamic online business environments. With its unique database indexing and storage technology, CeNUCLEUS can respond almost instantly to ad hoc information queries, no matter how voluminous or complex. No laborious, time-consuming changes need to be made to the existing data warehouse system in place and no specialist IT knowledge is required. By also dramatically reducing the amount of data that needs to be stored, and thereby the need for costly storage resources, CeNUCLEUS provides an astonishingly high and fast return on investment across the IT environment.

Quickly and easily implemented between installed data warehousing systems (IBM, Oracle, ... ) on the one hand and enterprise portals and front-end querying tools (CePICOM, Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Microstrategy, SAS, Seagate, Microsoft Access, ... ) on the other, CeNUCLEUS not only leverages corporate IT investments but has immediate effect on a business' ability to respond to the marketplace, maximizing the competitive advantage.

Existing CeNUCLEUS customers include DunnHumby Associates, Lansing Linde, Woolworths, Arthur Andersen, First Citizen's Bank, Lynx Express, British Standards Institution, Canadian National Railways, KPMG and Sema Group.

CeNUCLEUS is available for 64-bit UNIX, 32-bit Windows NT/95/98 and AS/400 platforms.

Contact de Jong & Associates, 760-943-9065, sndt@dejong.org for Sand Technology.