Going to Oracle OpenWorld? Use Oracle OLAP?
Simba Technologies and Vlamis Software Solutions are throwing a special OpenWorld 2011 reception for current …
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Teradata announcement on Teradata Columnar
Here is Teradata's official announcement of Teradata Columnar. Definitely worth reading. I will be at …
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Strata 2011
Some of you may know I've been working on a few ideas in the last …
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My adventures at SAP TechEd and Sybase TechWave
I was only briefly at SAP TechEd/Sybase TechWave this week. The biggest thing for me …
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Vectorsoft ODBC Driver Performance Optimization
Vectorsoft has been a long-time Simba customer. They have an interesting product called CONZEPT 16 …
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More about Microsoft’s move back to ODBC standard
Kurt Mackie at Redmondmag.com wrote more about Microsoft Shifting To ODBC for SQL Server. The …
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More about Microsoft’s plans to consolidate around ODBC and deprecate OLE DB
Microsoft's recent announcement that they would focus more on ODBC and deprecate OLE DB has …
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Microsoft endorses ODBC over OLE DB
Wow! About a decade and a half ago, Microsoft said that OLE DB would be …
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Teradata Database adds Columnar
Teradata has been innovating a lot and in Teradata 14, they will add Teradata Columnar. …
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Train-of-Thought Analytics means sub-20-second consistent query times no matter what query you do
Stephen Swoyer from TDWI recently wrote about Kognitio Pablo and how "the OLAP status quo …
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ODBC and JDBC for the Cloud
I was talking to one of our customers recently that has a solution that lives …
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Starbucks uses Teradata TBIO for Product Affinity Analysis
One of the presentations at the 2011 Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo this year is …
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Latest on what Kognitio is doing
Kognitio launched the Pablo product last week and got a nice write up by Doug …
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Sparklines help create meaningful dashboards with Excel
Microsoft has made many improvements to the BI features of Excel with its most recent …
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Some insight into what HP and Vertica are doing
Stephen Swoyer at TDWI wrote an interesting article giving some insight into what is happening …
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Extreme OLAP on Big Data
Today, Kognitio announced the release of version 1 of Pablo. Pablo is basically an OLAP …
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ODTUG KScope 2011 Conference and Excel Pivot Tables with Oracle OLAP
I just got back last week from the ODTUG KScope 2011 Conference and wanted to post …
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Teradata vs Oracle Exadata
I hear a lot of comparisons between between Teradata and Oracle Exadata. There is a …
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More about the direction and impact of SAP HANA… from an insider…
SAP keeps ratcheting up the marketing about HANA. While there has been a lot written, …
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The future of SAP BW – What does HANA mean for BW and BWA?
Simba has been working with SAP for some time on HANA. We have helped SAP …
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Oracle Gives You a Voice for What Happens at OpenWorld 2011
OpenWorld session voting is now open until this Sunday, June 19th. Oracle is allowing you …
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In-database analytics by Kognitio
Kognitio has an interesting session lined up on July 6-7 at Canary Wharf in London …
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Teradata in the Apple iCloud – definitely looks like it
Last week when Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iCloud, the pictures of the servers behind …
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Simba Survey on Excel BI Usage Extended Until ODTUG Conference
Simba has been conducting a survey on how pervasively enterprises use Excel for BI. We're …
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The future of Microsoft Analysis Services – for those of us who live in the MDX query language space this is an important read
A recent blog by TK Anand at Microsoft is a very important read for those …
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SAP HANA presentation by Dr. Vishal Sikka @ SAP Sapphire conference
I was at Sapphire last week and I have to say I was totally blown …
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Perfect storm tamed by data access SDK
Simba sells various kinds of data access Software Development Kits (SDKs). You might ask why; …
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Google Docs now adds Pivot Tables functionality
Very interesting news from Google this week as Google Docs now has pivot table functionality. …
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SAP BusinessObjects Analysis (formerly known as Pioneer)
At the SAP Sapphire conference this week, I spent some time looking at the SAP …
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How Teradata supports SAP BW
I am at the annual SAP Sapphire conference this week and I attended a couple …
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The data retention problem for big data
A lot of companies are developing solutions for the problem of big data. However, these …
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It’s nice that OBIEE now supports Oracle database OLAP Option
I was reading on Mark Rittman's blog that the new release of OBIEE now supports …
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Financial customer leverages novel dashboard tables
One of our large financial customers is using a novel and surprisingly-flexible OLAP dashboard technique …
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Who needs to populate an OLAP cube if you have everything in memory?
I was reading an article in Information Management by Shaku Atre about "The Value of …
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Common interfaces taken one step further
Simba is a data connectivity software company. We are thus always dealing with data access …
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Excel BI Survey 2011
How Do Excel and Business Intelligence Integrate in Your Organization? Simba invites you to participate …
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Why isn’t BI use in organizations more pervasive?
I was reading a recent post on Information Management by Andreas Bitterer entitled "Consumerization and …
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Collaborate 11
This year's premier Oracle Users Group conference, Collaborate 11, just ended in Orlando, and I was lucky enough …
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Teradata completes acquisition of Aster Data
The Teradata acquisition of Aster Data has now closed. Teradata is positioning Aster Data as …
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An ODBC driver SDK with novel architectural flexibility
I recently had an interesting conversation with a member of Simba’s ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET driver SDK team about …
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How Vertica fits into HP
Leo Apotheker presented his future strategy for HP and the recent acquisition of Vertica was …
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Amusing video by Kognitio on how Pablo does not require you to populate an OLAP cube
Kognitio has announced a new product called Pablo which allows you to do in-database OLAP …
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Some interesting companies to watch
Information Management has put out a list of 40 companies to watch which I thought …
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The benefits of Excel for IT departments
I was reading a blog post from Bill Baker from May last year entitled "I.T. …
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BI reporting is a starting point, not an end point
A large financial institution customer was recently relating how BI reporting was not the end …
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HP CEO Leo Apotheker showcases Vertica Big Data Appliance
Lot's of interesting stuff from HP CEO Leo Apotheker today about cloud computing and big …
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Inside information about how to connect to SAP BW from Thomas Zurek
Since Simba has been key in the OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) and MDX query …
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Why would you need a custom ODBC driver, JDBC driver, or ADO.NET provider?
When describing the business of Simba Technologies (http://www.simba.com), for example to employment candidates, I occasionally …
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Can Aster Data be the new Teradata? Actually, it now is part of Teradata…
While I was reading a lot of the analysis of the Aster Data acquistion by …
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An interesting foreshadowing article in Teradata magazine now that we see Teradata is buying Aster Data
I was looking back at Teradata magazine and noticed an interesting article in the Q1/2011 …
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Teradata buys Aster Data
Wow. HP acquires Vertica and less than 3 weeks later, Teradata buys Aster Data! 2011 …
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An interesting analysis of HP’s latest “run at BI superstardom”
HP's acquisition of analytical database management system (ADBMS) vendor Vertica made headlines when it was announced …
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Do You Have Excel Spreadmarts? Maybe You’re Not Using Excel Properly!
Often when I talk to people about using the BI reporting features of Excel, particularly …
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2011 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems – published on Teradata website
If you follow the Gartner Magic Quadrants, Teradata has provided a copy of the 2011 …
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Teradata OLAP Connector – MDX queries and analytics in the database
This month's Teradata magazine has a very interesting article by Matt Zenus explaining how the …
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Doug Henschen comments on HP’s half step back into Data Warehousing
Echoing my earlier comments on how HP's acquisition of Vertica was confusing considering HP's partnering …
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Interesting news in the analytical data warehouse space – HP buys Vertica
The big news on Valentine's day was the match up between HP and Vertica. Very …
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Dave Menninger @ Ventana also wrote about Kognitio Pablo
Dave Menninger spoke to some of the Kognitio folks and wrote a bit more about …
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More about Kognitio Pablo
Here is the official press release about Kognitio's Pablo product: http://www.kognitio.com/next-big-thing-in-data-analytics-no-more-physical-cubes. There is also a …
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Kognitio Pablo – OLAP without an actual cube – MDX query language access from Excel Pivot Tables
I was at the Gartner BI Summit in London last week and Kognitio had a …
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Learning OLAP through the MDX query language
There are a number of ways to learn about OLAP concepts. I'm not referring to …
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Excel PivotTables with Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP is a powerful tool — please use responsibly!
One of the great things about the Simba MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP is that …
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Creating Cubes in Oracle OLAP with Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
Most users of Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP are end users, i.e. BI analysts …
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Learning to Build Oracle OLAP Cubes for use with Simba’s MDX Provider and Excel PivotTables at Oracle University
Last week, two of my Simba colleagues and I had the opportunity to attend an …
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What is XMLA and how does it carry MDX?
Several times recently, such as after delivering a TDWI local chapter meeting talk, I explained …
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Data warehousing space activity continues…
There seems to be a lot of action in the data warehousing space. Last year, …
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‘tis the season for predictions…
On news feeds and podcasts over the last few weeks, there have been lots of …
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An Excel PivotTable is not like a regular Excel Spreadsheet Table
Contrary to folk wisdom, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, …
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What about PowerPivot?
At Simba, because we are in the business of MDX Providers that are typically accessed …
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Should HP and SAP join forces, what about Microsoft?
Last week, I commented on the post about HP giving up on BI (https://www.simba.com/blog/is-hp-really-giving-up-on-bi-and-analytics/). This …
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OData gaining traction
It’s been interesting to watch the list of producers of live OData Services grow over …
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Is HP really giving up on BI and Analytics?
So, last week SAP goes into ramp up with HANA 1.0 and now I read …
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How to Connect Excel to an Oracle Database
“Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both …
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SAP HANA now available – supports MDX and SQL
SAP just announced that their High performance ANalytical Appliance (HANA) is now available. HANA supports …
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ODBC 3.8 Applications and Drivers
Platform support for ODBC 3.8 has been available under Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 …