July 10, 2009
DSAG Annual Congress 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 – 6:15pm to 7pm, Messe und Congress Centrum Bremen
“Significant data reduction with SAND Nearline solution in an IS-U BW. PSA Cube and archiving to BW3 to EHP1 NLS in BI7 with SAND/DNA”
Jens Schwarz, Entega Service GmbH and Dr. Michael Hahne, SAND Technology Germany GmbH
July 7, 2009
International Energy and Petrochemical Company Uses SAND/DNA Nearline Solution to Keep Data Growth in SAP BW Under Control
Montreal, Canada – July 7, 2009 SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), an international provider of data management software and best practices, announced today that a major international energy and petrochemical company has chosen the SAND/DNA for SAP BI Nearline Storage (NLS) solution as the central component of an ILM strategy to control extremely rapid data growth in their SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) system. The solution will allow them to maintain their data warehouse at a manageable size despite the addition of terabytes of data every month, while still keeping all the data available for reporting and analysis and without increasing costs.
June 29, 2009
SAND Technology Announces Third Quarter Results for Fiscal 2009
Montreal, June 29, 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 April 30, 2009 of $300,697 on revenues of $2,371,632 compared with a net income of $8,441 on revenues of $1,905,984 for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008. All figures are in Canadian dollars.
June 1, 2009
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. Read more…
May 22, 2009
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:
May 4, 2009
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.
April 24, 2009
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:
April 21, 2009
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.
April 6, 2009
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.
March 24, 2009
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.