Killer Queries No Problem for Sand/IBM

Sand Technology Inc announced that testing by IBM proved that Sand's award-winning Nucleus business intelligence solution delivers super-scaleable performance when processing large numbers of "killer queries" on IBM's midrange eServers.

IBM testing proved that Nucleus performed faster the greater the number of users simulated. In the testing, multiple concurrent users (12, 24, 48 and 96) each issued 12 complex "killer" queries one after another, as fast as the 12-way AS/400 could process them. Average response times per query and per user actually decreased, and the number of complex queries completed per minute increased as the testers stepped up the number of concurrent users.

"What we demonstrated was pushing many computers' worth of work on one machine, which is super-scalability. If analytics become a problem - for example, a complex query killing everyone on the machine - you can tolerate that query if you are running Nucleus on the iSeries AS/400," said Arthur Ritchie, president, Sand Technology.

The testing results are detailed in IBM's White Paper, "Nucleus Proves Itself A Super-Scaleable iSeries Solution at the Teraplex Center," which can be found on the IBM iSeries Web site,
www.as400.ibm.com/developer/bi/teraplex/nucleus.pdf, as well as Sand Technology's Web site, www.sandtechnology.com.

About Sand Technology

Sand Technology, with headquarters in Montreal, Canada and offices in the United Kingdom and the United States, 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, 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.

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