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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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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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How Vertica fits into HP
Leo Apotheker presented his future strategy for HP and the recent acquisition of Vertica was …
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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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Why would you need a custom ODBC driver, JDBC driver, or ADO.NET provider?
When describing the business of Simba Technologies (https://www.simba.com), for example to employment candidates, I occasionally …
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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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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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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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ODBC 3.8 Applications and Drivers
Platform support for ODBC 3.8 has been available under Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 …
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Avoid Spreadmarts by Hot-Connecting to Data Sources
At Simba we often hear the term “spreadmart”. This informal term, even defined on Wikipedia, …
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Teradata Business Intelligence Optimizer
Matt Zenus and Carlos Bouloy presented on the Teradata Business Intelligence Optimizer (TBIO) last week …
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Build, buy, or something in-between?
It’s not the sort of question that usually comes up over hors d’œuvres, but given …
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Inside information on SAP BW and HANA
I blogged about SAP’s High Performance Analytical Appliance (HANA) yesterday and someone followed up and …
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Hiding things in plain sight…
It’s a good time to be making the switch from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows because …
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Analytics with Big Data – a TDWI checklist
Wayne Eckerson at TDWI wrote a nice overview and checklist about doing analytics on large …
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Pivot Tables / OLAP are essential for Business Intelligence
According to CIO.com, “Pivot tables are perhaps one of the most popular methods for analyzing …
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Standard Hierarchies
When I was in university, I had a professor who told the class, “The wonderful …
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Oracle Exadata pipeline exceeds 1.5 billion dollars!
Oracle announced their fiscal Q1 and according to Larry Ellison, their Exadata pipeline has grown …
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Oracle Exadata at Openworld
I am looking forward to OpenWorld next week because I am very curious what Larry …
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Teradata’s product strategy
Simba does a lot of work with Teradata, having recently partnered with Teradata on the …
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Standards-based BI Connectivity
One of the challenges in a world of large enterprises, especially those composed of acquisitions, …
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Could Dell buy Aster Data?
A few days ago, I commented on an article about Oracle’s shopping spree and someone …
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Minding your bits…
I note that Window’s transition from 32-bit to 64-bit has been an on-going saga for …
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The case for a custom ODBC driver
I was talking to a customer recently and they were telling me they have a very …
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Windows XP lives on
Interesting that Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 users can “downgrade” to Windows XP for …
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EMC buys GreenPlum
Interesting news yesterday about EMC’s acquisition of data warehouse appliance company GreenPlum. GreenPlum had of …
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More on SAP’s Sybase Acquisition
SAP’s pending acquisition of Sybase for 6 billion dollars has a lot of people talking. …
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SAP acquires Sybase – BI Implications
Boris Evelson had an interesting blog entry about the “BI Implications Of SAP-Sybase Deal”. You …
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Oracle Data Warehouse Strategic Update
At the Oracle Collaborate conference last week, I attended a session presented by Ray Roccaforte …
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Oracle Exadata V2 – Sun Oracle Database Machine
We have had a number of customers try out our MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP …
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Kognitio – row vs column?
I was reading an interesting article by Stephen Swoyer at TDWI where he interviewed the …
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The Kingdom of Excel
Whoa! At the Gartner BI Summit, they suggested we “Wave the white flag on using …
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In-memory technologies
In the database warehouse/BI/analytics space, there is a lot of talk about in-memory technology and …
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Top BI Vendors
Now that the Winter Olympics in Vancouver are over, I can focus more on work. …
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Oracle and Sun – the new IBM of the 60’s?
I was reading an interesting article by Larry Barrett about how Oracle’s series of acquisitions …
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Oracle Exadata
Over the last year, we have been doing a fair bit of work with Oracle 11g …
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Smartphones and the Apple AppStore
Jenna Wortham wrote an interesting article that Apple’s AppStore is changing the game with mobile software. …
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Teradata Partners Conference
I found a nice blog by Larry Dignan on Teradata’s Partners Conference which is worth …
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Interesting article I read about Google…
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 …
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The new efficiency/normal according to Steve Ballmer
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 …
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MDX for Oracle 11g OLAP Option
The team at Simba has been very busy working on our MDX Provider for Oracle …
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Microsoft Gemini
Microsoft Gemini is now available. You can get more information at the Gemini team blog: …
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Netezza TwinFin
Curt Monash posted an interesting entry on his blog about Netezza’s new TwinFin family of …
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According to Gartner, BI software sales grew 22% in 2008
I was reading an interesting article at Information Week about BI software sales in 2008: …
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IBM’s acquisition of SPSS
IBM’s announcement this week of its intention to acquire SPSS was very interesting. After all …
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SAP’s Hasso Plattner talks about column databases
I have always thought that SAP’s Hasso Plattner is a good public speaker. This year …
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New BI Features in Excel 2010
The Technical Preview for Office 2010 is now out and there are a lot of …
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MDX Query Language, XMLA, ODBO and IBM
I was recently poking around to see what IBM is doing in the MDX query …
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ODBC 3.80 is here!
Finally, ODBC 3.80 is here! According to Pak-Ming Cheung from Microsoft, “We’re excited to announce …
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On-Demand Business Intelligence
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 …