Sand Reveals Nucleus Active Warehouse Solution

Sand Technology Inc, announced the availability of their Nucleus Active Warehouse, an award winning data warehousing system which promises to revolutionize Business Intelligence, CRM, MIS, and Decision Support Systems.

"Knowledge and information are essential for the success of companies today. Unfortunately too many Data Warehouse systems and existing Business Intelligence technologies are only designed to be updated daily or in some cases weekly. Companies can no longer afford to make decisions on information that may be days or hours old. The Nucleus Active Warehouse is the only Business Intelligence system truly capable of offering 24/7 access to information that is almost current with the companies operational systems" said Duncan Painter, vice president, Europe. "Nucleus Active Warehouse is the next generation of data warehousing technology and is exactly what the decision support community has been waiting for. Not only is it highly cost effective through the use of standard hardware platforms, it enables the creation and recreation of data marts in days as opposed to years, and has more analytical power than most top-end solutions."

Nucleus Active Warehouse comprises of the Core Nucleus DB Server engine that is capable of supporting data versioning and NucleusQuery Server, a set of web enabled Portal and Query tools. Nucleus Active Warehouse also has integrated support for the leading ETL vendor products for data integration.

Further, using the Nucleus Active Warehouse, end users have access to the data via standard front-end tools such as Brio, SAS, Microstrategy, Seagate and Microsoft Products. Users have completely unfettered access to the data from the moment it is loaded allowing the required business questions and reports to be structured from day one.

Nucleus Active Warehouse provides industry leading, powerful analytical processing capabilities for end users of existing data marts and warehouses. This product addresses the need to perform iterative, ad hoc, forensic queries of data, involving drill down often not envisioned during the 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.

One of the key differences between Nucleus and standard databases is its radical Token database technology, which drastically reduces the amount of data by storing unique values only once. Combined with the powerful Time Travel system, Nucleus Active Warehouse can enable users to perform continuous data loads into the system without the need to generate expensive copies of database tables.

Nucleus has already been selected by a number of the World's leading companies to be at the forefront of their Data Warehousing implementations and has picked up a succession of prestigious awards in North America, including the World Class Solution, Database Engine of the Year for data warehousing and data marts by DM Review, North America's leading business intelligence and data warehousing magazine.

Nucleus is available for 64-bit Unix, 32-bit Windows NT/95/98 and AS400 platforms.

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, and Information Builders. For more information, visit www.sandtechnology.com.