Simba Technologies


Simba Technologies Inc. is a software company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Simba specializes in products for ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB for OLAP and XML for Analysis. The company licenses data connectivity technologies, and provides software development for Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac and mobile device platforms. Simba Technologies was founded in Vancouver and Seattle, Washington in 1991. Customers include Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, MIS AG, SAP AG and Descisys.

Products

Simba's products include a JDBC/ODBC SDK, an OLAP/ODBO/XMLA SDK, a SQL to MDX adaptor, an ODBO to XMLA bridge, and MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP, and other data connectivity products.

Services

Simba co-developed the first standards based ODBC driver with Microsoft in 1992, Simba.DLL. The first ODBC driver was included in Microsoft Windows 3.1, and has since been installed on over 30 million computers. ODBC is a widely used data access interface for relational database management systems RDBMS. DEC and Oracle licensed Simba products in 1993. In 1994, Attachmate, Liant and Simba jointly developed a product that would allow Attachmate to use Simba's SDK products to build their original QuickDB server.
In 1993, the company was the first to introduce an ODBC Software Development Kit SDK to build custom ODBC drivers allowing users to use standard-compliant Business Intelligence BI applications and platforms, such as PowerBI, Microsoft Excel, Tableau, Alteryx and SAP BusinessObjects for analysis and reporting.
In 2012 Simba Technologies developed an ODBC driver for Hadoop/Hive Big Data sources. The ODBC 3.52 driver enables users to directly access and analyse Big Data sources, using the BI tool of their choice.

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