Gartner Details a Thriving EDW Segment: TDWI

Finally, Gartner charts another intriguing niche player — Sand Technology, which is hardly a DW newcomer. Thanks to the growing popularity of columnar databases, however, Sand is enjoying a surprising surge in popularity.Last year, Sand notched a partnership with ERP giant SAP AG, where it’s used as a near-line data store in conjunction with SAP Business Information Warehouse SAP BW. The SAP connection should help gin up additional revenues for Sand, although Gartner predicts that it will remain primarily a niche player.”Due to Sand’s small size [e.g., it has just over 60 customers] … it will continue to struggle against the larger vendors and venture-funded startups that can invest more in R&D, marketing and sales,” the Gartner duo indicates.

SAND Reseller FreeSat Gains Market Share in South Korean Financial Services Sector

SAND Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of intelligent enterprise information management software, announced today that its South Korean reseller FreeSat has recently expanded its Financial Services portfolio with three new customers who are implementing the SAND/DNA product suite using FreeSat’s superior consulting services. FreeSat (formerly TopEnd) specializes in providing exceptional Business Intelligence consulting services and innovative IT solutions for Information Life Cycle Management, and has been a key SAND reseller for four years. During this time, FreeSat has worked with customers such as National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NACF, a national financial institution with over 4000 branches), KB Bank (the largest bank in South Korea and a Fortune 100 company), KTF (South Korea’s second largest mobile telecommunications provider), NHN (the country’s largest internet portal operator) and Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance. FreeSat provides these organizations with solutions for Information Lifecycle Management, weblog management and mining, archiving, enterprise data warehouse and internet banking, all of which incorporate SAND/DNA data management technology.

SAND Technology Placed in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007

SAND Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of intelligent enterprise information management software, has been included in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007.

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SAND Technology Continues to Gain Momentum with Sales of SAP-certified SAND/DNA Solution

Customers such as Volkswagen Bank, RI Solutions, and Entega, among others, cite SAND/DNA’s extremely high data compression rates, minimal administration requirements and proven success as an integrated NLS (nearline storage) component for use with SAP NetWeaver BI as the reasons for choosing the SAND solution, which enables them to manage growing data volumes over the long term at the lowest possible cost.