Simba Technologies Explained

Simba Technologies Inc.
Type:Subsidiary
Location:Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Key People:Jeffrey Shoreman (CEO), Paul Young (GM), Matt Begg (VP Operations)
Products:SimbaEngine ODBC SDK, SimbaProvider OLAP SDK, RelationalCube, SimbaO2X
Parent:Magnitude Software

Simba Technologies Inc. is a software company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Simba specializes in products for ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) and XML for Analysis (XMLA). The company licenses data connectivity technologies, and provides software development for Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac and mobile device platforms. Simba Technologies was founded as PageAhead Software in Vancouver and Seattle, Washington in 1991 and changed its name in 1995. 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

History

PageAhead Software 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 PageAhead jointly developed a product that would allow Attachmate to use PageAhead'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.[1] The ODBC 3.52 driver enables users to directly access and analyse Big Data sources, using the BI tool of their choice.[2]

Timeline

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Simba and MapR Technologies Partner to Deliver ODBC 3.52 Driver with the Broadest Support for Hadoop Analysis and Reporting - Yahoo Finance . Finance.yahoo.com . 2012-03-21 . 2013-10-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131020223314/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/simba-mapr-technologies-partner-deliver-120000985.html . 2013-10-20 . dead .
  2. Web site: MarketWatch.com . MarketWatch.com . 2013-10-13.
  3. Web site: CBR Staff Writer . 1995-11-14 . For PageAhead Read Simba as Renamed Firm Releases SimbaExpress . CBR Online . Computer Business Review . 2021-12-27 . Tech Monitor.
  4. Web site: Simba Technologies Releases SimbaEngine ODBC SDK 9 for Custom ODBC Driver and JDBC Driver Development for Ultra High-Performance Data Environments . 2012-02-06 . TMCnet News . Acquire Media NewsEdge . Marketwire . 2021-12-27.
  5. Web site: Simba Releases World’s First Big Data ODBC Drivers for Mac . 2014-02-03 . Simba Technologies . https://web.archive.org/web/20170708145048/http://www.simba.com/news/simba-releases-worlds-first-big-data-odbc-drivers-mac/ . 2017-07-08.

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