SAND Announces New Director of Professional Services

MONTREAL, April 2, 2012 /CNW/ - SAND Technology Inc. (OTCBB: SNDTF.OB), provider of the world's most advanced column store database, today announced Chris Carlisle as their new Director of Professional Services.

Chris Carlisle has over 12 years experience delivering Business Intelligence and customer communications solutions. His most recent role was Head of Data & Communication Composition at Williams Lea, leading a business unit that delivered 20 million transactional & marketing communications to UK consumers every month on behalf of a FTSE 100 client base. Previous roles have been leading application delivery for Experian Integrated Marketing and undertaking numerous system integration projects in the Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications & Retail Banking sectors whilst working as a consultant for ClarityBlue, KPMG Consulting and Xansa.

"I am delighted to get someone of Chris' caliber to grow our expanding consultancy business," said Mike Pilcher, President and COO at SAND. "We see great opportunity in the market for helping our customers drive value from Big Data. He is spearheading our efforts and is a welcome addition to the team."

About SAND Technology
SAND is the world's most advanced analytic database for customer data, managing massive amounts of big data, driving unparalleled performance, and deploying actionable insight to tens of thousands of users across the enterprise. With industry-leading software solutions for CRM and Loyalty analytics, SAND delivers best-of-breed analytic performance to over 600 customers. SAND Technology has offices in the United States, Canada, UK, Germany and Australia and can be reached online at www.sand.com.

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