MONTREAL, September 18 /PRNewswire/ --

- SAND/DNA nearline solution reduces the costs of migrating to SAP 
NetWeaver BI 7.0

SAND Technology Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SNDTF), an international 
provider of intelligent enterprise information management software, announced 
today that it has introduced a Smart Unicode Conversion framework for SAP 
NetWeaver BI.

Companies worldwide have accepted Unicode as the standard encoding scheme
for character data. With the introduction of SAP NetWeaver(R) BI 7.0, SAP has
adopted Unicode as the recommended encoding scheme for new SAP BI
installations.

As a result, many organizations migrating from SAP BW 3.x to SAP
NetWeaver BI 7.0 are seeking to convert their databases to Unicode.
Nevertheless, conversion requires considerable resources. Tests have shown
that, depending on the type of data involved, up to 1.1 to 1.3 times the
amount of disk space is required to accommodate data converted to Unicode,
along with 30% more CPU power and 50% more memory.

These resource requirements can be reduced by adopting SAP's Nearline
approach for SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 and moving older and less frequently used
data from the main SAP BW 3.x database into SAND's software-based SAND/DNA
nearline repository .

Using the Smart Unicode Conversion framework, companies can reduce the
amount of data that needs to be converted while also lowering TCO and
improving their ability to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) using the SAP
NetWeaver BI 7.0 NLS Interface immediately after SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 goes
into production.

"Using Smart Unicode Conversion based on SAND/DNA, companies are able to
save time and resources while migrating from SAP BW 3.x to SAP NetWeaver BI
7.0," said Roland Markowski, Managing Director, Central Europe, for SAND
Technology. "Not only can they speed up the Unicode conversion process, but
perhaps more importantly they can equip their SAP NetWeaver BI 7.0 system
with an agile relational database from the outset, without losing access to
historical and less frequently used data," he added.

About SAND Technology

SAND is an international provider of intelligent information management
software. The SAND/DNA product suite scales to help any size enterprise cope
with exploding data requirements, now and into the future. SAND/DNA Access
allows for retaining all potentially relevant data in a tiny footprint while
providing instant access to just what's required. SAND/DNA Analytics allows
for complex what-if analysis to meet any planned and unplanned business need.

SAND/DNA solutions include CRM analytics, and specialized applications
for government, healthcare, financial services, telecommunications, retail,
transportation, and other business sectors. SAND/DNA nearline solutions for
SAP NetWeaver BI have achieved "Certified for NetWeaver" and "Powered by
NetWeaver" status.

SAND Technology has offices in the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom and Central Europe.

SAND Technology and Nucleus are registered trademarks, and SAND,
SAND/DNA, SAND/DNA Access, SAND/DNA Analytics, and other SAND- and
Nucleus-related terms are trademarks of SAND Technology Inc. Other trademarks
remain the property of their respective owners. All other product and service
names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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