Hitachi Data Systems and Sand Technology Announce Partnership for Nucleus Exploration Product Suite

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Hitachi Data Systems, a leading provider of information processing solutions, and Sand Technology Systems International Inc., a software solutions company, today announced the marketing of Sand's Nucleus Exploration product suite in the United Kingdom through Hitachi Data Systems and associated partners. The Nucleus product suite is designed to provide a high-performance, scalable solution for data mining, data marts, data warehouses, and online analytical processing (OLAP). The partnership aims to bring this patented technology to the business user, enabling timely and accurate decision processing.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Nucleus product suite is a high-performance, scalable software solution for data mining, data marts, data warehouses, and online analytical processing (OLAP).
  • The partnership between Hitachi Data Systems and Sand Technology Systems aims to provide the Nucleus product suite to the UK market through Hitachi Data Systems and associated partners.
  • The Nucleus product suite is designed to provide business users with timely and accurate decision processing capabilities.
  • Nucleus is 100% indexed, with tokenising producing a compact database, and requires no more storage space than the original data.
  • A Nucleus package can be easily installed without database skills, requiring only an ASCII field delimited data for input and no pre-analysis.
  • Partners participating in the use of Nucleus technology in the UK market include KPMG (UK), CSC, Information Vectors, Intelligent Solutions, and Prism.
  • A range of analysis and business decision tool providers will work alongside the Nucleus database, including Brio Technology, Business Objects, Cognos, MicroStrategy, and SAS.

Statistics:

  • 5% of data warehouse users generate over 70% of the workload. (Source: Duncan Painter, Director of Solutions, Hitachi Data Systems Europe)
  • Nucleus databases generally require no more storage space than the original data.

Sources:

  • "Nucleus Exploration Product Suite Now Available in the UK Market." Hitachi Data Systems. 8 July 1998.
  • "Sand Technology Systems International Inc. Announces Marketing Partnership in the UK for Nucleus Exploration Product Suite." Business Wire. 16 July 1998.
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