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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 …

I was reading on Mark Rittman's blog that the new release of OBIEE now supports …

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 …

I recently had an interesting conversation with a member of Simba's ODBC/JDBC/ADO.NET driver SDK team about …

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

Kognitio has announced a new product called Pablo which allows you to do in-database OLAP …

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 …

Since Simba has been key in the OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) and MDX query …

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

While I was reading a lot of the analysis of the Aster Data acquistion by …

I was looking back at Teradata magazine and noticed an interesting article in the Q1/2011 …

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 …

Often when I talk to people about using the BI reporting features of Excel, particularly …

If you follow the Gartner Magic Quadrants, Teradata has provided a copy of the 2011 …

This month's Teradata magazine has a very interesting article by Matt Zenus explaining how the …

Echoing my earlier comments on how HP's acquisition of Vertica was confusing considering HP's partnering …

The big news on Valentine's day was the match up between HP and Vertica.  Very …

Dave Menninger spoke to some of the Kognitio folks and wrote a bit more about …

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 …

I was at the Gartner BI Summit in London last week and Kognitio had a …

There are a number of ways to learn about OLAP concepts.  I'm not referring to …

One of the great things about the Simba MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP is that …

Most users of Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP are end users, i.e. BI analysts …

Last week, two of my Simba colleagues and I had the opportunity to attend an …

Several times recently, such as after delivering a TDWI local chapter meeting talk, I explained …

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 (http://blogs.simba.com/simba_technologies_ceo_co/2010/12/is-hp-really-giving-up-on-bi-and-analytics.html).  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 …

SAP just announced that their High performance ANalytical Appliance (HANA) is now available.  HANA supports …

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

We sometimes get asked what is the advantage of using Excel PivotTables for BI against …

Last week was a very interesting week at the PASS conference in Seattle.  Microsoft made …

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