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The recent HANA SPS7 introduced Smart Data Access. http://help.sap.com/hana/Whats_New_SAP_HANA_Platform_Release_Notes_en.pdf There’s a good writeup of this …

SAP HANA Smart Data Access is a new feature that allows you to take data …

Simba Technologies, a leader in Big Data connectivity, enables powerful analytics on your Big Data …

  A new year—2014—always brings hope and optimism. The world of data at least on …

I was reading an interesting article in Forbes titled “Hortonworks Wants To Own Big Data …

With the turkey out of the way both north and south of the 49thand the …

I attended Dreamforce this year and was amazed at the size and scope of the …

Given the odd white stuff here in Vancouver here in the first week of December, …

If you are looking for a solution for Big Data in the Cloud, Qubole looks …

As Hadoop and Hive gain traction in the marketplace, many people are looking to connect …

There has been a lot of talk about Hive/Hadoop replacing the relational database.  I personally …

The Strata / Hadoop World conference last week in NY was great as it showcased …

Last week, I was part of the Simba team at Strata Conference / Hadoop World.  …

I spent last week at the Teradata Partners User Conference.  This was Teradata’s annual user …

Cloudera is definitely a leader in the world of Hadoop and Big Data. I was …

Last week I attended Splunk’s annual user conference in Las Vegas. One of the sessions …

This week at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced the Oracle 12c In-Memory Column Store Option.  …

Last week at the annual Tableau user conference, Tableau and Teradata both announced that Tableau …

Cloudera just released version 2.5 of their ODBC drivers for Hive and Impala. A key …

This week, Tableau just released version 8.0.4 of their namesake product. One key feature is …

I first learned about R last year at a local meetup on open science. http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-R-Users-Group-data-analysis-statistics/events/73785912/ …

Amyn Rajan participated in a podcast with Enterprise Management 360° in discussing Big Data Analytics. …

I was wary that Carl Steinbach didn’t published the July Hive User Group meetup‘s agenda …

As we kick off the Hadoop Summit this week, some interesting news about new funding …

As I am planning to attend the Hadoop Summit next week in San Jose, I …

HBaseCon was conveniently the day after Cassandra Summit so I added it onto last weeks’ …

I was reading a great article in the Globe and Mail today about co-operative education programs …

My usual blogging tends to focus on the data access and analytics work that Simba …

Working in the database technology business, we run into a lot of software companies who …

Last week at the SAP Sapphire conference, I was able to get some more insight …

Simba has been a leader in OLAP and MDX data connectivity for the last decade …

Google IO has came and gone. It was a drink-from-the-fountain experience for this IO newbie. …

An interesting post by Alex Williams at techcrunch from this past March about “Oracle Is …

Yesterday, Teradata announced Teradata Intelligent Memory – part of the Teradata Unified Data Architecture. I …

Darryl Taft at eWeek wrote a very good article Hadoop Drives Down Costs, Drives Up …

Google IO 2013 is less than two weeks away now and there’s a lot of …

The Hive User Group held its semi-regular meetings last week at Hortonwork’s office. This was …

Now that Cloudera's Impala is GA, I expect we will see the SQL battle heat …

With the increasing use of self-service BI tools, data exploration tools, and data discovery tools, …

Hadoop is often taken to be synonmous with Big Data, the solution to an organization’s …

WWGD. “What Would Google Do?” I’ve seen this refrain enough in the last few weeks …

Microsoft and HortonWorks have announced Hadoop on Windows and Mark Smith at Ventana Research wrote …

On February 5 we delivered our most popular webinar series to date: Store once, read …

Day two of Strata Santa Clara turned out to be a day of sober second …

Day 1 of Strata Santa Clara continued the frentic pace of day 0. In light of …

The run-up to any conference can be rather feverish. This year’s Strata is turing out …

In talking with analysts and partners in the past week leading up to this week's …

Last Thursday we sent the Impala user group a demonstration of some Big Data analytic …

The PASS BA conference is coming up in April and PASS ran their 24h of …

Join us for our webinar series on connecting to Oracle OLAP on Tuesday, February 5. …

On their blog, Microsoft has introduced the new ODBC Drivers for SQL Server. "Microsoft is adopting …

Big Data ws undeniably top-of-mind for 2012 and will continue to in 2013. The market …

A recent report from TDWI talks about the staying power of the SQL query language. …

Last Friday we officially announced the availability of the Simba XMLA Provider for Oracle OLAP …

Hello! Please join us for an informative and dynamic webinar on December 13th!  Take your …

Last week at the Amazon Reinvent conference, Amazon announced Redshift – their new cloud database. …

Tableau just wrapped up their very successful customer conference a couple of weeks ago. One …

Last week’s combined Strata/Hadoop World at New City is a wrap. It was a high-energy …

I was reading an interesting article on Forbes by Dan Woods entitled "Can Hadoop Survive …

If you want to use the MDX query language to work with OLAP cubes like …

We had a great party for the Teradata OLAP Connector at the Teradata Partners Conference …

One of our ODBC customers is doing some really cool stuff with their SimbaEngine SDK-based …

The O’Reilly Strata NY Conference  + Hadoop World 2012 in New York City is coming up on …

You’re Invited, Simba Technologies is sponsoring the Teradata OLAP Connector Reception hosted by Teradata on …

An good overview post by Guy Harrison about "Google’s Newly Percolated Big Data Technologies". For …

Chris Webb has written a good blog post entitled "Introduction to MDX for PowerPivot Users".  …

I attended Oracle OpenWorld last week and of course the main story-line was the Exadata …

It began when Hortonworks released HDP 1.1 earlier in September. Buried within the documentation was …

I was reading a post on the HBR (Harvard Business Review) blog about "Who's Really …

I attended MongoDB Seattle last week mainly to get an insight into the MongoDB market …

I admit, I cribbed the title of this post from an article by Stephen Swoyer …

In the world of Big Data, it seems that everybody is talking about data being …

I noticed that QlikTech announced a partnership with Google. The first outcome of this is …

Cassandra Summit was just a few of weeks ago. If you couldn't make it, the …

I thought the annoucement of Drill from MapR was interesting.  If you look at the …