SAND teams with Sypherlink

Automated Metadata Discovery & Mapping Capabilities Complement Analytic Server for CRM, Healthcare & Homeland Security Applications.  

Montreal March 16, 2004 -- SAND Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDT), a leading supplier of high-performance analytic application infrastructure, has formed a cooperative marketing partnership with Sypherlink, a leading technology firm that enables information sharing across multiple data sources. SAND will leverage Sypherlink: Harvester's metadata discovery, analysis and mapping capabilities to accelerate the setup and configuration of SAND Analytic Server. Sypherlink will be able to utilize the SAND Analytic Server as a high-performance analytic platform for customers whose applications require a physically centralized database.

"Sypherlink: Harvester enhances the innate data cleansing capabilities of SAND Analytic Server," said SAND CEO Arthur Ritchie. "SAND Analytic Server's 'load-and-go' capabilities mean that business users can quickly and easily access a view of the raw data to help them discover anomalies. By first initiating an automated discovery process using Sypherlink: Harvester, we will be able to greatly shorten this process when implementing time-critical applications such as CRM and marketing analytics."

"SAND's unique analytic platform provides users with the ability to quickly analyze very large amounts of data," added James Paat, Sypherlink President and CEO. "By coupling this robust platform with Sypherlink's automated metadata analysis and mapping capabilities, clients will be able to 'discover' what information is available from disparate data sources and then choose to either query them remotely or quickly set up a fully functional 'datamart-on-demand' for more complex and persistent analytics. This capability will be of particular value for healthcare, law enforcement and Homeland Security applications."

About Sypherlink: Harvester
Sypherlink: Harvester is a suite of data analysis, architecture and repository tools that utilize a patent-pending technology to reduce the time, effort and cost of data-sharing initiatives. Harvester resolves the human resource, financial and human cognitive limitations typically associated with data sharing by enabling a computer to automatically determine the most probable field-level relationships across multiple data sources concurrently.

About SAND™ Analytic Server
SAND Analytic Server allows integration of virtually unlimited volumes of data from multiple sources - data warehouses, operational systems, and legacy or third-party databases - into a compact, fully-indexed analytical application platform that can be rapidly set up, and quickly and easily accessed by business users employing industry standards-compliant Business Intelligence tools and applications. It is highly scalable to accommodate business growth, fast and simple to update to accommodate business change and delivers on the promise of analytics @ the speed of business™ by providing tangible business benefits faster than competitive systems.

About SAND Technology
SAND Technology empowers organizations worldwide with a better understanding of their business through a better understanding of their business data. SAND Analytic Server-based solutions include CRM analytics, web analytics, financial analysis and other specialized "Business Intelligence" applications for government and security, healthcare, telecommunications, financial services, retail and other business sectors. SAND has offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Central Europe, and is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol SNDT. For more information, visit www.sand.com.