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  • Teradata in the Apple iCloud – definitely looks like it

    Teradata in the Apple iCloud – definitely looks like it

    June 14, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Last week when Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iCloud, the pictures of the servers behind …

  • Simba Survey on Excel BI Usage Extended Until ODTUG Conference

    Simba Survey on Excel BI Usage Extended Until ODTUG Conference

    June 9, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    Simba has been conducting a survey on how pervasively enterprises use Excel for BI.   We’re …

  • The future of Microsoft Analysis Services – for those of us who live in the MDX query language space this is an important read

    The future of Microsoft Analysis Services – for those of us who live in the MDX query language space this is an important read

    May 29, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    A recent blog by TK Anand at Microsoft is a very important read for those …

  • SAP HANA presentation by Dr. Vishal Sikka @ SAP Sapphire conference

    SAP HANA presentation by Dr. Vishal Sikka @ SAP Sapphire conference

    May 27, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I was at Sapphire last week and I have to say I was totally blown …

  • Perfect storm tamed by data access SDK

    Perfect storm tamed by data access SDK

    May 26, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    Simba sells various kinds of data access Software Development Kits (SDKs).  You might ask why; …

  • Google Docs now adds Pivot Tables functionality

    Google Docs now adds Pivot Tables functionality

    May 21, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Very interesting news from Google this week as Google Docs now has pivot table functionality.  …

  • SAP BusinessObjects Analysis (formerly known as Pioneer)

    SAP BusinessObjects Analysis (formerly known as Pioneer)

    May 17, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    At the SAP Sapphire conference this week, I spent some time looking at the SAP …

  • How Teradata supports SAP BW

    How Teradata supports SAP BW

    May 17, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I am at the annual SAP Sapphire conference this week and I attended a couple …

  • The data retention problem for big data

    The data retention problem for big data

    May 15, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    A lot of companies are developing solutions for the problem of big data.  However, these …

  • Financial customer leverages novel dashboard tables

    Financial customer leverages novel dashboard tables

    May 12, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    One of our large financial customers is using a novel and surprisingly-flexible OLAP dashboard technique …

  • Who needs to populate an OLAP cube if you have everything in memory?

    Who needs to populate an OLAP cube if you have everything in memory?

    May 1, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading an article in Information Management by Shaku Atre about “The Value of …

  • Common interfaces taken one step further

    Common interfaces taken one step further

    April 29, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    Simba is a data connectivity software company.  We are thus always dealing with data access …

  • Excel BI Survey 2011

    Excel BI Survey 2011

    April 28, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    How Do Excel and Business Intelligence Integrate in Your Organization? Simba invites you to participate …

  • Why isn’t BI use in organizations more pervasive?

    Why isn’t BI use in organizations more pervasive?

    April 26, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading a recent post on Information Management by Andreas Bitterer entitled “Consumerization and …

  • Collaborate 11

    Collaborate 11

    April 15, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    This year’s premier Oracle Users Group conference, Collaborate 11, just ended in Orlando, and I was lucky enough …

  • Teradata completes acquisition of Aster Data

    Teradata completes acquisition of Aster Data

    April 6, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    The Teradata acquisition of Aster Data has now closed.  Teradata is positioning Aster Data as …

  • How Vertica fits into HP

    How Vertica fits into HP

    March 31, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Leo Apotheker presented his future strategy for HP and the recent acquisition of Vertica was …

  • Some interesting companies to watch

    Some interesting companies to watch

    March 23, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Information Management has put out a list of 40 companies to watch which I thought …

  • The benefits of Excel for IT departments

    The benefits of Excel for IT departments

    March 22, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading a blog post from Bill Baker from May last year entitled “I.T. …

  • BI reporting is a starting point, not an end point

    BI reporting is a starting point, not an end point

    March 17, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    A large financial institution customer was recently relating how BI reporting was not the end …

  • HP CEO Leo Apotheker showcases Vertica Big Data Appliance

    HP CEO Leo Apotheker showcases Vertica Big Data Appliance

    March 14, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Lot’s of interesting stuff from HP CEO Leo Apotheker today about cloud computing and big …

  • Why would you need a custom ODBC driver, JDBC driver, or ADO.NET provider?

    Why would you need a custom ODBC driver, JDBC driver, or ADO.NET provider?

    March 4, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    When describing the business of Simba Technologies (https://www.simba.com), for example to employment candidates, I occasionally …

  • Teradata buys Aster Data

    Teradata buys Aster Data

    March 3, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    Wow.  HP acquires Vertica and less than 3 weeks later, Teradata buys Aster Data!  2011 …

  • An interesting analysis of HP’s latest “run at BI superstardom”

    An interesting analysis of HP’s latest “run at BI superstardom”

    March 2, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    HP’s acquisition of analytical database management system (ADBMS) vendor Vertica made headlines when it was announced …

  • More about Kognitio Pablo

    More about Kognitio Pablo

    February 14, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    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 …

  • Data warehousing space activity continues…

    Data warehousing space activity continues…

    January 10, 2011 by Amyn Rajan

    There seems to be a lot of action in the data warehousing space. Last year, …

  • ‘tis the season for predictions…

    ‘tis the season for predictions…

    January 7, 2011 by Simba Marketing

    On news feeds and podcasts over the last few weeks, there have been lots of …

  • An Excel PivotTable is not like a regular Excel Spreadsheet Table

    An Excel PivotTable is not like a regular Excel Spreadsheet Table

    December 21, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    Contrary to folk wisdom, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, …

  • What about PowerPivot?

    What about PowerPivot?

    December 16, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    At Simba, because we are in the business of MDX Providers that are typically accessed …

  • Should HP and SAP join forces, what about Microsoft?

    Should HP and SAP join forces, what about Microsoft?

    December 13, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    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 …

  • OData gaining traction

    OData gaining traction

    December 10, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    It’s been interesting to watch the list of producers of live OData Services grow over …

  • Is HP really giving up on BI and Analytics?

    Is HP really giving up on BI and Analytics?

    December 8, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    So, last week SAP goes into ramp up with HANA 1.0 and now I read …

  • How to Connect Excel to an Oracle Database

    How to Connect Excel to an Oracle Database

    December 3, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    “Layers. Onions have layers. Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. You get it? We both …

  • ODBC 3.8 Applications and Drivers

    ODBC 3.8 Applications and Drivers

    November 26, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    Platform support for ODBC 3.8 has been available under Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 …

  • Avoid Spreadmarts by Hot-Connecting to Data Sources

    Avoid Spreadmarts by Hot-Connecting to Data Sources

    November 10, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    At Simba we often hear the term “spreadmart”.   This informal term, even defined on Wikipedia, …

  • Teradata Business Intelligence Optimizer

    Teradata Business Intelligence Optimizer

    November 4, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Matt Zenus and Carlos Bouloy presented on the Teradata Business Intelligence Optimizer (TBIO) last week …

  • Build, buy, or something in-between?

    Build, buy, or something in-between?

    October 22, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    It’s not the sort of question that usually comes up over hors d’œuvres, but given …

  • Inside information on SAP BW and HANA

    Inside information on SAP BW and HANA

    October 19, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    I blogged about SAP’s High Performance Analytical Appliance (HANA) yesterday and someone followed up and …

  • Hiding things in plain sight…

    Hiding things in plain sight…

    October 15, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    It’s a good time to be making the switch from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows because …

  • Analytics with Big Data – a TDWI checklist

    Analytics with Big Data – a TDWI checklist

    October 7, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Wayne Eckerson at TDWI wrote a nice overview and checklist about doing analytics on large …

  • Pivot Tables / OLAP are essential for Business Intelligence

    Pivot Tables / OLAP are essential for Business Intelligence

    October 4, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    According to CIO.com, “Pivot tables are perhaps one of the most popular methods for analyzing …

  • Standard Hierarchies

    Standard Hierarchies

    October 4, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    When I was in university, I had a professor who told the class, “The wonderful …

  • Oracle Exadata pipeline exceeds 1.5 billion dollars!

    Oracle Exadata pipeline exceeds 1.5 billion dollars!

    September 17, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Oracle announced their fiscal Q1 and according to Larry Ellison, their Exadata pipeline has grown …

  • Oracle Exadata at Openworld

    Oracle Exadata at Openworld

    September 15, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    I am looking forward to OpenWorld next week because I am very curious what Larry …

  • Teradata’s product strategy

    Teradata’s product strategy

    September 13, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Simba does a lot of work with Teradata, having recently partnered with Teradata on the …

  • Standards-based BI Connectivity

    Standards-based BI Connectivity

    September 3, 2010 by Simba Marketing

    One of the challenges in a world of large enterprises, especially those composed of acquisitions, …

  • Could Dell buy Aster Data?

    Could Dell buy Aster Data?

    August 31, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    A few days ago, I commented on an article about Oracle’s shopping spree and someone …

  • Minding your bits…

    Minding your bits…

    August 4, 2010 by George Chow

    I note that Window’s transition from 32-bit to 64-bit has been an on-going saga for …

  • The case for a custom ODBC driver

    The case for a custom ODBC driver

    August 3, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    I was talking to a customer recently and they were telling me they have a very …

  • Windows XP lives on

    Windows XP lives on

    July 13, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Interesting that Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 users can “downgrade” to Windows XP for …

  • EMC buys GreenPlum

    EMC buys GreenPlum

    July 7, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Interesting news yesterday about EMC’s acquisition of data warehouse appliance company GreenPlum.  GreenPlum had of …

  • More on SAP’s Sybase Acquisition

    More on SAP’s Sybase Acquisition

    May 30, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    SAP’s pending acquisition of Sybase for 6 billion dollars has a lot of people talking.  …

  • SAP acquires Sybase – BI Implications

    SAP acquires Sybase – BI Implications

    May 14, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Boris Evelson had an interesting blog entry about the “BI Implications Of SAP-Sybase Deal”.  You …

  • Oracle Data Warehouse Strategic Update

    Oracle Data Warehouse Strategic Update

    April 27, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    At the Oracle Collaborate conference last week, I attended a session presented by Ray Roccaforte …

  • Oracle Exadata V2 – Sun Oracle Database Machine

    Oracle Exadata V2 – Sun Oracle Database Machine

    April 26, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    We have had a number of customers try out our MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP …

  • Kognitio – row vs column?

    Kognitio – row vs column?

    April 25, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading an interesting article by Stephen Swoyer at TDWI where he interviewed the …

  • The Kingdom of Excel

    The Kingdom of Excel

    April 16, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Whoa!  At the Gartner BI Summit, they suggested we “Wave the white flag on using …

  • In-memory technologies

    In-memory technologies

    April 2, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    In the database warehouse/BI/analytics space, there is a lot of talk about in-memory technology and …

  • Top BI Vendors

    Top BI Vendors

    March 7, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    Now that the Winter Olympics in Vancouver are over, I can focus more on work.  …

  • Oracle and Sun – the new IBM of the 60’s?

    Oracle and Sun – the new IBM of the 60’s?

    January 30, 2010 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading an interesting article by Larry Barrett about how Oracle’s series of acquisitions …

  • Oracle Exadata

    Oracle Exadata

    December 31, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    Over the last year, we have been doing a fair bit of work with Oracle 11g …

  • Smartphones and the Apple AppStore

    Smartphones and the Apple AppStore

    December 7, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    Jenna Wortham wrote an interesting article that Apple’s AppStore is changing the game with mobile software.  …

  • Teradata Partners Conference

    Teradata Partners Conference

    November 30, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    I found a nice blog by Larry Dignan on Teradata’s Partners Conference which is worth …

  • Interesting article I read about Google…

    Interesting article I read about Google…

    November 29, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    Baseline magazine had an interesting article on Google entitled “How Google Works” http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Infrastructure/How-Google-Works-1/?kc=BLBLBEMNL11272009STR1.  This is …

  • The new efficiency/normal according to Steve Ballmer

    The new efficiency/normal according to Steve Ballmer

    October 1, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading Steve Ballmer’s latest email entitled “The New Efficiency” (http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/2009/09-29NewEfficiency.mspx) in which he basically …

  • MDX for Oracle 11g OLAP Option

    MDX for Oracle 11g OLAP Option

    September 8, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    The team at Simba has been very busy working on our MDX Provider for Oracle …

  • Microsoft Gemini

    Microsoft Gemini

    August 21, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    Microsoft Gemini is now available.  You can get more information at the Gemini team blog: …

  • Netezza TwinFin

    Netezza TwinFin

    August 11, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    Curt Monash posted an interesting entry on his blog about Netezza’s new TwinFin family of …

  • According to Gartner, BI software sales grew 22% in 2008

    According to Gartner, BI software sales grew 22% in 2008

    August 9, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    I was reading an interesting article at Information Week about BI software sales in 2008: …

  • IBM’s acquisition of SPSS

    IBM’s acquisition of SPSS

    July 30, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    IBM’s announcement this week of its intention to acquire SPSS was very interesting.  After all …

  • SAP’s Hasso Plattner talks about column databases

    SAP’s Hasso Plattner talks about column databases

    July 22, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    I have always thought that SAP’s Hasso Plattner is a good public speaker.  This year …

  • New BI Features in Excel 2010

    New BI Features in Excel 2010

    July 21, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    The Technical Preview for Office 2010 is now out and there are a lot of …

  • MDX Query Language, XMLA, ODBO and IBM

    MDX Query Language, XMLA, ODBO and IBM

    July 10, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    I was recently poking around to see what IBM is doing in the MDX query …

  • ODBC 3.80 is here!

    ODBC 3.80 is here!

    July 8, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    Finally, ODBC 3.80 is here!  According to Pak-Ming Cheung from Microsoft, “We’re excited to announce …

  • On-Demand Business Intelligence

    On-Demand Business Intelligence

    July 7, 2009 by Amyn Rajan

    Brad Peters wrote an interesting article entitled “On-Demand Business Intelligence Takes Off” at http://www.information-management.com/specialreports/2009_150/business_intelligence_bi-10015655-1.html.  Interesting …

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