Investment Management Group Uses SAND Technology’s SAND/DNA Suite to Optimize Data Management Processes and Ensure Data Quality
Montreal, Canada – June 1, 2009 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of data management software and best practices, announced today that a major investment management group has selected the SAND/DNA software suite to optimize critical data management processes and address data quality issues.
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Building Corporate Memory Into a Next-Generation Data Warehouse
It is now possible to design and implement a corporate memory within the data warehouse using a number of mature, tested and well-understood products and methodologies that can be deployed relatively quickly and administered with minimal DBA overhead. These solutions can grow with relatively linear scalability in terms of both cost and performance, while providing powerful support for both power analysts and reporting users. The ingredients for a successful data warehouse implementation that makes use of the corporate memory concept involve hardware, software and architectural design components, as listed below:
Data “Dumping Grounds” and the Importance of Corporate Memory
Received wisdom about data warehousing instructs us not to create a “dumping ground” for our raw detail data. But why not? This principle is a legacy from the not-so-distant past when it was impractical to keep huge amounts of data around if it was not being actively used – so once aggregates had been built, the original details were simply discarded. Of course, this meant that the organization was then confined to working with a particular “version of the truth” that someone had imposed on the data; there was no way to revisit the original details should the need arise for a change of perspective.
Decision Support for Users Who Don’t Know What They Don’t Know
Since the beginning of the computer era, system designers have struggled to reconcile conflicting aims of performance vs. functionality and maintainability vs. adaptability. In the case of Business Intelligence, there has been no less of a need for tradeoffs in order to deliver workable systems. However, BI system design has also typically been constrained even further by four fundamental realities:
SAND in Sun Booth #296 at SAPPHIRE 09 - Orlando, USA
May 11 - 14, 2009
Visit SAND Technology at SAPPHIRE 09 in the Sun Microsystems booth, #296, and learn all the latest on best practices for Nearline and Nearline integrated with BWA (BIA) for a total, intelligent ILM approach to SAP NetWeaver BW 7.
Redefining the Role of IT in Business Intelligence
If our businesses are going to survive, we need to stop designing Business Intelligence systems that tell us what we want to hear, and which work well in good times but behave incomprehensibly during periods of significant inconsistency. Instead, we need to build systems that empower our best analysts to help correct flaws in our activities and identify opportunities that we can exploit. We need to be in a position where existing paradigms can be challenged and replaced by new ones on an ongoing basis. However, just as new scientific theories need to fit with observed reality, these new business approaches must be well supported by the facts as recorded in a company’s information repository.
Business Intelligence: An Oxymoron?
An old joke has it that the term “military intelligence” is an oxymoron – and in light of the current global financial crisis, it is tempting to put “Business Intelligence” in this category as well. Our inability to predict or deal competently with major events, from wars in the Middle East to the meltdown of global financial systems, shows just how ineffective our Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing strategies or “fit-for-purpose” reporting systems can be in responding to events as they unfold in this complex world. We are now confounded by the facts: we cannot predict the future; the largest military powers cannot conquer and control much weaker opponents; economists cannot adequately monitor essential financial systems. Automated trading systems, whose rules we once thought we understood and controlled, seem to have taken on a life of their own.
ASUG Québec: Pratique d’excellence pour l’entreposage de données
Le 24 avril, 2009 à 8:00am
ASUG Québec est fier de s’associer à SAND Technology et SAP pour vous inviter à un atelier de grande qualité portant sur SAP Business Intelligence (BI) et Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).
Des aspects tels que l’extensibilité, la performance et la capacité à respecter les accords de niveau de service, deviendront rapidement de très grands défis pour les entrepôts de données dans un contexte de mondialisation. En plus des exigences beaucoup plus élevées des utilisateurs pour accéder à plus de données avec une granularité plus détaillée, les exigences légales et réglementaires, telles que Bâle II ou la loi Sarbanes-Oxley, par exemple, jouent désormais un rôle plus important dans ce domaine.
Cette présentation porte sur le principe de la gestion du cycle de vie de l’information (ILM) et de l’entreposage Nearline (NLS) dans le cadre de l’architecture de l’entrepôt de données d’entreprise de SAP NetWeaver; un concept qui offre une approche complètement différente pour relever les défis d’augmenter les niveaux de performance et de donner une plus grande extensibilité à un entrepôt de données d’entreprise.
Faites vite pour vous inscrire, les places sont limitées.
SAP Canada
Centre de Commerce Mondial de Montréal
380, rue Saint-Antoine Ouest Bureau 2000
Montréal QC H2Y 3X7
514.350.7342
Major International Bank Uses SAND/DNA aCRM Solution from SAND Technology and Uniserv to Optimize Database Marketing Processes
Montreal, Canada – March 11, 2009 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of data management software and best practices, announced today that a major international bank has selected the SAND/DNA aCRM solution offered by SAND Technology in conjunction with Uniserv, a leading specialist in address cleansing and deduplication, to help expand and improve its database marketing processes. Specifically, the bank will use the SAND/DNA solution to optimize their targeted mailings, as well as their outbound, cross-selling, retention and other campaigns.
TDWI Chapter Meeting - Montreal
March 18th, 2009
Mr. Richard Grondin vice-president R & D from SAND Technology, will present the concept of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) in the context of data warehouses. ILM has been used for several years in transactional environments, but it is recent in data warehouse environments. It can be deployed as a strategy for performance optimization as well as for operating cost reduction or data governance. The ILM strategy has been adopted by several companies and it is among other an integral part of SAP BI multi-layer architecture.
Canadian National 935 De La Gauchetière West
Lobby Level – Transcontinental Room