SiSoftware Sandra XI Released

London, UK, November 20th 2006 – SiSoftware has announced the
launch of SiSoftware Sandra XI, the latest version of its award-winning
utility, which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic
features for PCs, servers, Pocket PC1, Smartphone², small office/home office (SOHO) networks and enterprise networks.

This version further builds on the re-written user interface (UI) as introduced in 2007, adding UI improvements like:

• Multi-Core Efficiency benchmark: Shows how efficient the processors cores and their inter-connects are in comparison to other typical processors.
• Mobile Device Transfer: Shows how fast your computer can transfer data to/from your mobile device (PDA², Smartphone²) and how this compares to other mobile devices.
• New benchmark comparisons: ?difference? bars to quickly see differences in values.
• Ability to contrast benchmark results against other variables in charts.
• All dialogs are now asynchronous and provide progress information.
• Theme framework:
  you can now load different themes and customise the colours of charts;
  allows users to truly make Sandra look the way they like it.

From the GUI, you can make scripts from all the wizards to perform common tasks such as creating reports and Burn-in.
What?s more, you can load and modify the scripts once you have created
them. These scripts can be saved for later use or shared with others.

While talking about sharing, Sandra XI now allows you to export
your results and share them with colleagues, send them to friends, and
post them on news groups. Once you have exported some test results,
these can be imported into another install of Sandra (providing it is
the same version). This is available on all versions of Sandra ?out of
the box?, and Sandra Enterprise extends the result storing by providing
the ?Data Repository?, a single database for storing results from a
remote machine.

While there is lots of talk about Vista*/Longhorn* in the air,
SiSoftware has been testing against the RC release of Vista* for this
version. While official support for Vista* in Sandra cannot be offered
until it has been tested against a release version of Vista*, work has
been done to ensure that support for Vista* in Sandra is something that
we see as a top priority. Since we know lots of customers test not only
new hardware, but all new operating systems. This is why features like Microsoft* cross-signed Kernel drivers for Vista*/Longhorn*, Aero (Glass) support in the Sandra Management Console, UAC (User Access Control) support for all services, to name a few, are there now.

With each release, we add new support and compatibility for the latest
hardware, architectures and operating systems, and this is no
exception. SiSoftware continues to work with hardware vendors to ensure
the best support for new emerging hardware.

As a thank you to all our loyal customers, we are offering a
free, complimentary upgrade to Sandra XI to all our Sandra 2007
customers. Please contact your distributor to obtain your free,
complimentary upgrade.

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

Key features

• 4 platform native support (Win32 x86, Win64 x64, Win64 IA64¹, WinCE ARM²) in a single installer
• 15 established benchmarking modules, 2 new benchmarks, native for all platforms
• 34 detailed information modules
• Huge official hardware support through technology partners (Intel^*, AMD/ATI^*, SiS^*, VIA^*)
• 5 language versions (English, German, French, Italian, Russian) in a single installer
• Enhanced Sandra Lite version (free for personal/educational use)

Notes:
¹ Sandra Enterprise only. Other versions upon special arrangement.
² Requires device and applicable synchronisation software. Code unlocked Smartphone required.
^* Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.

Purchasing
For more details, and to purchase the commercial (Pro Home, Pro Business, Legacy, Engineer or Enterprise) versions, please click here.

Updating or Upgrading
To update your existing commercial (Pro Home, Pro Business,
Legacy, Engineer or Enterprise) version, please contact your
distributor (sales support).

Downloading
For more details, and to download the shareware (Lite) version, please click here.

About SiSoftware
SiSoftware, founded in 1995, is one of the leading providers of
computer analysis, diagnostic and benchmarking software. The flagship
product, known as "SANDRA", was launched in 1997 and has become one of
the most widely used products in its field. SANDRA is used by almost
500 world-wide IT publications, magazines, review sites to analyse the
performance of today?s computers. Over 5,000 on-line reviews of
computer hardware that use SANDRA are catalogued on the company?s
website alone.

Over 4 millions copies of the latest version (launched this year) have been downloaded from a software archive site (c|net)
alone; it is one of the most popular programs on software archive
sites. World-wide installed base is estimated to be in the millions.

Since launch, SiSoftware has always been at the forefront of
the technology arena, being among the first providers of benchmarks
that show the power of emerging new technologies like multi-core,
Wireless MMX, AMD64/EM64T, IA64, NUMA, SMT (Hyper-Threading), SMP
(multi-threading), (S)SSE3, SSE2, SSE.

SiSoftware is located in London, UK. For more information, please visit http://www.sisoftware.net or http://www.sisoftware.co.uk