With over 20 years of development and visionary leadership, SAND offers the most advanced analytic platform in the industry, recognized with nine United States patents and thirty-two international patents. SAND Analytics is a column-oriented database management system (CDBMS), tokenized and bit-array encoded for Infinite Optimization. It has been designed from the ground up to provide advanced analytics capabilities on massive — and constantly growing — amounts of detail data. SAND Analytics makes optimal dynamic use of available standard hardware configurations, including cloud architectures, without requiring extensive effort from costly DBA resources. 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. SAND can be found online at www.sand.com.