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Sand Solution Wins 'Supply Chain Project' Award 2001

Sand Technology Inc has won the "Supply Chain Project of the Year" at the Information Management 2001 awards, for its solution at Lynx Express, the UK's largest independent parcel carrier. Sand Technology provides Information Integration solutions that help leading organizations worldwide cope with data overload. Sand's Nucleus Analytical Suite of solutions are used for data mining, data marts, data warehousing and CRM analytics.

Judges selected the Sand solution over stiff competition from SAP, Alternative Business Solutions and ISIS Technology. Sand was presented with the "Supply Chain Project of the Year" award at the annual awards dinner held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on the evening of 29th November 2001. Now in their sixth year, the prestigious Information Management Awards recognize innovative technology that delivers significant and definable business benefits.

"This award demonstrates that our solutions deliver comprehensive business benefits that provide our customers a rapid return on investment," says Duncan Painter, president EMEA, Sand Technology. "It also clearly shows our capability to deliver such solutions rapidly, while maintaining our commitment to our customers in providing superior project management and on-going customer service."

The Lynx Express data integration and CRM analytics project was implemented in just 9 weeks. It paid for itself within 12 weeks, by enabling Lynx Express to pro-actively manage its 20,000 account customer base. Today, it continues to support the customer-centric business model, which gives Lynx Express a competitive edge in the marketplace.

"Due to acquisitions and expansion, we had five separate parcel delivery systems and could not properly analyze our customer base," explains David Brown, IT Director, Lynx Express. "Sand integrated the information from all five systems, which enables us to analyze every single parcel movement, across all of our business units. For the first time, we have a single view of each customer at the corporate, customer and business route level. Now we can optimize our delivery operations and maximize revenue from each customer, and continue to provide the outstanding service that sets us apart from the competition."

About Lynx Express

Lynx Express is a privately-owned, UK-based distribution company, with turnover in excess of 150m pounds and over 3,500 employees. It has a comprehensive portfolio of delivery services in the UK, Europe and internationally, and has a reputation for expertize within the e-commerce sector. With the broadest range of services in the marketplace, a customer focused culture offering an innovative approach to distribution and logistics solutions, LYNX Express is ideally positioned to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their customers' operations. For more information, visit www.lynx.co.uk.

About the IM2001 Information Management Awards

The Information Management Awards are the premier industry recognition of excellence and innovation in the management of business information in the e-business age. Ten of the 16 Awards are for end-user projects, so the Awards reflect success in real-world applications. A distinguished panel of judges included top editors from leading technology magazines, business professors and industry analysts. For more information visit www.elanconf.co.uk/im2001.shtml.

About Sand Technology

Sand Technology is much more than just a software company. True, the Company offers a unique, innovative data management technology, with a level of analytical functionality that qualifies it as part of the "next generation" of computing software. However, the Company knows that software is only one of the components that a business needs to realize value from corporate initiatives.

Therefore, Sand Technology is structured as a new kind of software solution provider, with a philosophy that is strongly focused on the delivery of business-driven solutions and a corporate culture centered on integrity and customer service. This is embodied in the Sand Guarantee, which links the Company's commercial rewards to the delivery of real business benefits to its customers.

The Company helps leading organizations across Europe and North America cope with "data overload" by giving them rapid access to the exact information they need to make the right business decisions. The Company's solutions are extremely powerful and highly scalable; they empower legacy systems and data access tools; they leverage existing IT investment, require no additional human resources, and deliver business value quickly, resulting in a rapid return on investment (ROI).

Organizations across Europe and North America use Sand's solutions for both analytical and operational purposes, including among others, CRM and CRM analytics, Web analytics, healthcare analytics, supply chain management, inventory & production optimisation, financial analysis, and strategic planning.

Sand Technology, www.sand.com, is headquartered in Montreal, with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom and Central Europe. Sand Technology has commercial relationships with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, KPMG, Ab Initio, Brio Technology, Business Objects, Information Builders, Acta, Soza, Sema/Schlumberger, Equifax and BTG.