SAND Announces Partnership with Uniserv

MONTREAL, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of leading column database software today announced a strategic partnership with Uniserv, the largest pure-play supplier of data quality in Europe.

"I'm very pleased to have Uniserv as an OEM partner of SAND", said Mike Pilcher, Chief Operating Officer of SAND. "Combining Uniserv's Data Quality Service Hub with SAND's industry-leading column database creates a data management solution with an unprecedented out-of-the-box experience for customers, realizing data quality with greater ease of use, performance, and scalability."

"SAND's column-based database technology fits perfectly with Uniserv's existing data quality and data integration functionality. By integrating the SAND analytics server into our products we will enable our users to determine data quality metrics and profiles over large and even very large datasets fully interactively", said Wilfried Eickholz, Head of Product Management at Uniserv. "Therefore SAND will deliver a key component for Uniserv's next generation profiling offer."

About SAND Technology

SAND is the world's most advanced massively parallel, column-oriented database software, accelerating the largest user populations, the biggest data, and the most complex analytics. SAND also provides cost-effective nearline data access designed to lower TCO and improve operational performance for SAP NetWeaver BW, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAS, and more. SAND Technology has offices in the United States, Canada, Western and Central Europe, and Australia and can be reached online at http://www.sand.com.

About Uniserv

Uniserv is the largest pure-play supplier of data quality solutions in Europe with an internationally usable software portfolio and services for data management, i.e. for securing data quality including data integration. Uniserv's solutions enable it to support its customers in initiatives for data quality and projects for data integration, data migration and data consolidation. They also offer support in data synchronization, e.g. in the environment of CRM applications, eBusiness, direct and database marketing, CDI/MDM applications, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. With several thousand installations worldwide, Uniserv serves the expectations of a comprehensive solution for all business data over the entire data lifecycle. The company employs a total of more than 110 people at its headquarters in Pforzheim and its subsidiary in Paris, France, and serves a large number of prestigious customers in all sectors of industry and commerce, such as Allianz, Amazon, Dell, Deutsche Bank, eBay, EDEKA, E.ON, France Telecom, Johnson & Johnson, Lufthansa, Otto, Siemens, Time Warner as well as TUI and VOLKSWAGEN. Further information is available at http://www.uniserv.com.