January 25, 2010
Webinar: Best Practices for a Nearline Solution in SAP Business Warehouse
On Thursday, Nov 13, Auritas held a Webinar on Best Practices in using SAND/DNA for Nearline:
Did you know that many companies now have their BW database 2-3 times the size of their ECC or R/3 Database? In fact, most companies have not looked into the compliance requirements that could impact their BW platform. Many companies now understand that database size and growth can be controlled in the R/3 environment. But, is there any seamless access to archive in BW? How will ILM (Information Lifecycle Management) strategy impact your BW system?
Alright, now that I have your interest peaked….. You might want to know what could be done to manage database growth on your BW platform. Is there something called Data Archiving in BW also? Well yes, but its not as versatile as it is in SAP. There is a new cop in town for managing data growth in BW. It’s called Nearline. Auritas in providing highly informative information (but not boring) is going to do a webcast around Nearlining functionality and benefits in SAP BW. We are also going to do a DEMO!!!. Auritas in collaboration with SAND is going to provide you hands on knowledge around Nearline for SAP BW.
January 12, 2010
SAND Adds Three Industry Veterans to Board of Directors
Montreal, Canada – January 12, 2010 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of data management software and best practices, today announced three important additions to its Board of Directors. Duncan Painter, Director, Experian Plc, Michael Pesner, President of Hermitage Canada Finance Inc, and Daniel Benn, executive and entrepreneur, have been elected to SAND’s board of directors, bringing the total membership to nine.
December 18, 2009
SAND Technology Announces First Quarter Results for Fiscal 2010
Montreal, Canada, December 18, 2009 — SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF), an international provider of data management software and best practices, today reported a net income for the three-month period ended October 31, 2009. The Company reported a net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010 of $553,253 on revenues of $2,485,464 compared with a net loss of $989,850 on revenues of $1,223,928 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009. All figures are in Canadian dollars.
December 16, 2009
BeyeNetwork Podcast: Clive Humby: Chairman of dunnhumby talks about SAND Technology
Clive Humby, Chairman and Co-founder of dunnhumby, talks to Claudia Imhoff about using SAND Technology for retail analytics on 350 million customers.
November 26, 2009
SAND Technology Announces Year End Results for Fiscal 2009
Montreal, November 26, 2009: SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF), an international provider of data management software and best practices, today reported a loss for the year ended July, 31, 2009 of $1,191,695 on revenues of $7,049,237 compared with a loss of $1,271,950 on revenues of $6,998,472 for the fiscal year 2008. All figures are in Canadian dollars.
November 3, 2009
SAND Technology Signs Global OEM Agreement to Distribute SAP BusinessObjects Solutions
SAND information management solutions to incorporate SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports and Xcelsius as user interfaces to SAND/DNA product suite
Hamburg, November 3, 2009 – SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB:SNDTF), an international provider of data management software and best practices, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Business Objects Software Limited, Ireland to distribute SAP BusinessObjects software worldwide. According to the agreement, SAND is authorized to sell SAP BusinessObjects web analytics and reporting components bundled together with its SAND/DNA solutions for intelligent information management.
October 28, 2009
SAND Technology CEO, Arthur Ritchie to Retire; Tom O’Donnell to Replace Him
Montreal, October 28, 2009: Co-Founder and the Chief Executive of SAND Technology, Arthur Ritchie, announced today that on reaching the age of 65, he plans to retire and step down as CEO by the end of October. He has agreed to remain as the company’s Chairman working in an advisory capacity. Additionally he will focus on assisting the CEO’s smooth transition including strengthening existing customer and partner relationships.
October 26, 2009
Evolving the “Humpty Dumpty Warehouse” Into a “Phoenix”
In my last blog post, I responded to Wayne Eckerson Wayne’s World Blog for TDWI, which revisited the dilemma of the “Humpty Dumpty Warehouse”. I suggested that the “Phoenix” might be a better model for modern enterprise data warehouses. Wayne continued the discussion in comments:
Arthur, you are right to suggest that the BI team needs to adapt to changes Phoenix-like rather than pick up the pieces every time the organization changes. I guess the Humpty Dumpty metaphor is not the best–albeit a lot of fun–unless the king’s men are using superglue to get Humpty back together again. Certainly, I’m a big advocate of adaptable DW and BI architectures. That’s a given I should have noted!
Rather than superglue — though that sounds like fun! — last time I mentioned several key breakthroughs in information technologies that have matured to the point where a viable, flexible, Phoenix-like EDW can be created without taking a “rip and replace” strategy that would discard what has already been accomplished within the organization.
Because it maximizes existing investments both in products and people, this represents a much more secure and cost-effective route than trading a well understood set of problems for a replacement technology that may well solve some problems, but will inevitably replace them with a variety of altogether new. These breakthroughs include the following:
- Enhanced data base federation capabilities from all the major RDBMS providers, as well as from many Business Intelligence tool vendors like Business Objects.
- Very high-performance, storage-efficient and massively scalable software-based Nearline 2.0 storage systems that can house the entirety of an organization’s structured detail data, federated with the primary RDBMS.
- Very high-performance Column-Based Analytic Technology (CBAT) systems to support analytics for power users
- Very inexpensive and powerful desktop computers with adequate storage
- Relatively inexpensive blade servers
- Very high performance, efficient, automated ETL tools that can be used by the organization to set up and control the flow of data over time (including Disaster Recovery support using the Nearline 2.0 storage architecture).
It is now possible to integrate all of these subsystems into a single EDW architecture, resulting in a Scalable Corporate Information Factory (SCIF), to adapt Bill Inmon’s terminology). With this model in place, key BI analysts no longer need to focus primarily on transforming data to achieve a single version of “the truth” — in reality, an unattainable goal — to enable adequate performance, and more on on helping users derive real business value from corporate information by maximizing accessibility to “the facts” for the users who can provide essential business insights.
In subsequent posts I will explore this architecture in more detail.
October 20, 2009
ASUG California – Northern Chapter Meeting
Friday, November 6, 2009
- Keynote Presentation – 1:45 p.m.
Best Practices for a Nearline Solution in SAP Business Information Warehouse – SAND Technology
Crowne Plaza Hotel
777 Bellew Drive
Milpitas, CA 95035
October 13, 2009
SAND Technology and TG-Energy Extend Reseller Relationship with Multi-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Contract
Montreal, Canada – October 13, 2009, SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of intelligent information management software and best practices, announced today that South Korean communications and IT services company TG-Energy, Inc (formerly known as Freesat) has signed a multi-million dollar, multi-year contract extending their agreement to act as the exclusive reseller of SAND products in South Korea.
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