CARY, North Carolina — March 10, 2010 — Saffron Technology, Inc., a privately held software firm providing Experience Management solutions for business and government, today announced General Availability of Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform Version 8.0 (“Saffron 8”).

Saffron 8 is the commercial market’s first cloud-ready representation and reasoning solution built entirely on associative memory technology; the first to scale to the enterprise level; and the only associative memory base that can capture all possible connections within a massive data set in real time. WIth it, customers can make sense of what’s really in their data, support better, faster decisions, and anticipate logical scenarios by applying all the Experience naturally available to them — both in their data, and in the perspectives of their users.

“With today’s data deluge, every enterprise is seeking better business sense-making and decision-making tools,” said Manny Aparicio, CEO, Saffron Technology. “Saffron 8 is a single-store solution that moves companies beyond age-old batch data mining or fragmented, multi-store business intelligence approaches, and into Experience Management. Saffron 8 stores the connections and frequencies in all your data, providing a dynamic resource where, thanks to the natural interplay between system and user, Experience is continuously in the making.”

In Saffron 8, Saffron Technology has engineered a proprietary distributed associative memory store and map-reduce ingestion process, allowing it to scale to billions of connections and capable of solving enterprise-scale problems. Saffron 8’s new architecture is an adaptive, streaming data analytics solution that is immediately queryable in sense-making and decision-support, and easily integrates with legacy and next-generation software applications. Because Saffron 8 ingests live source data and makes it available to decision makers in real time, the system continually gets smarter every minute of use.

Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform Version 8.0 includes SaffronMemoryBase, SaffronAnalyst, and Saffron REST APIs for data ingestion and query. Technologists and developers can learn more by experimenting with Saffron 8 directly, at www.saffronsierra.com. Or visit www.tweetdive.com to see how SaffronMemoryBase reveals informative data connections and associations, using the world of Twitter as a data source.

About The Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform

Built on associative memory technology, Saffron 8 provides business, government and academic customers vastly more powerful data analysis capability at far lower cost of ownership than other post-relational data management solutions. This is due to Saffron’s massively parallel data-store distribution capability, which goes well beyond traditional business intelligence or search solutions, beyond databases, statistics and rules, to deliver Experience Management.

In Saffron’s view, countless worlds of connected Experience — memories — about people, places, things and events, are hidden in your data, waiting to be put to work. With Saffron 8, you can access, control and manage all that Experience, and analyze it, learn from it, remember it and leverage it, all across your business.

“Customers expect applications with limitless scale that can easily be integrated into their current technology architecture,” Aparicio said. “Saffron 8 integrates easily with third-party ETL applications on the back end, and with presentation and reporting tools on the front end. It is built on current standards for componentization, to openly incorporate modern tools such as REST interfaces for SOA integration, and service and user-interface mash-ups for complete flexibility.”

Saffron’s REST APIs for Reasoning Methods provide application and utility views of SaffronMemoryBase for rapid application development. With Saffron 8 you can invent new analysis methods and new ways of applying the Experience in your data toward solving even your most challenging business analytics problems.

Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform Version 8.0 has been completely redesigned to deliver high scalability, improved performance and real-time streaming analytics. System maintenance and administration have been improved, and open application integration has been simplified. To learn more, go to www.saffrontech.com, or call toll free 866-472-3376. Or register for our blog, SaffronThreads.

About Saffron Technology

Saffron helps business and IT leaders use the collective Experience hidden in their data to better understand business scenarios, determine best possible courses of action, and make higher value decisions about critical business issues. Our customers are innovators, in academia, corporations and government. They are engaged in high-stakes research, financial analysis, risk management, supply chain operations, national security, health care, social media & marketing, and more.

Biologically inspired, the Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform is a revolutionary approach to data analysis. SaffronMemoryBase understands and recalls the co-occurrences and the frequencies of entity associations in varied, massive data sets at unprecedented recall speed. SaffronSierra is a developer-focused Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for working with the Saffron Natural Intelligence Platform, including SaffronMemoryBase and related offerings. www.saffrontech.com