Blogs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 …