32 Magnitude Simba Testimonials

"Simba plays a key role in standards-based data connectivity. Simba’s standards-based development toolkits enable quick connectivity between products from multiple vendors. Microsoft is pleased to work with Simba on advancing and promoting standards-based data connectivity."

“Engineers appreciate talking to other engineers. And that’s one thing that set [Simba Technologies] apart.”

"With this connector, enterprises can get the most of their data—from storage to analysis—in one convenient place. Making Apache Hadoop easy to use across the enterprise is our top priority, and the Simba Hive ODBC Driver broadens the accessibility of Hadoop by allowing business analysts and BI users to analyze Hadoop-based data with their favorite tools."

"Simba provided Poet with a low cost/low risk evaluation of our product, and described how they could increase our connectivity by enabling our database to be read and updated by any ODBCe nabled application. We decided to licenseSimboEngine SDK to add ODBC connectivity to our Object-oriented Database Management System, ‘FastObjects Because of this, our customers could now use any ODBC-enabled application that they preferred. This expanded our market significantly."

"No other solution offered us the combination of security, performance, functionality and ease-of-use as Simba’s Excel connectivity solution for Oracle OLAP. Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP makes it possible for us to query our Oracle OLAP data directly from Microsoft Excel. We’ve been able to securely provide our extended agent and user base with an easy way to perform self-service BI analysis and reporting on harmonized data that drives greater efficiency organization-wide."

"SAP AG partnered with Simba Technologies to develop and support the resulting OLE DB for OLAP Provider created for Business Information Warehouse. We were very satisfied with the results of this project as Simba was able to deliver an effective data connectivity solution that allowed us to meet the needs of our customers."

"Simba’s data connectivity expertise and technology made it possible for Teradata to provide direct Microsoft Excel PivotTables access to the Teradata database. Teradata customers can now use popular and familiar OLAP-based applications, like Excel PivotTables, to directly access a single view of their data in real-time within a ROLAP environment. The Simba solution delivers full and high performing capabilities meeting the robust enterprise requirements of our customers."

"SimbaEngine SDK is a complete ODBC toolkit, providing everything that you need to add custom ODBC connectivity into your product. Simba’s development experts are available to assist you in developing your data driver, and Simba ensures quick and responsive access to engineering-level support that’s just a phone call or email away. Simba’s SDK licensing model is flexible and completely transparent - with no hidden fees - and Simba works with you to ensure licensing fits your specific needs."

"Magnitude Connectivity solutions (Simba) were a natural choice as the drivers are trusted by the data source vendors and guaranteed to be compatible with any data source. Business users can connect their Sisense BI tool seamlessly to their disparate data, enabling them to analyze billions of rows and extract insights from these data sets with unparalleled speed and smooth performance without having to write code."

"Outcome: a high performance, standards-based custom ODBC driver allows the company’s legacy applications to continue to work while enabling additional functionality in their data landscape."

"We do not hesitate to sell [our SimbaEngine- built] ODBC driver. It's an essential part of our toolkit."

"Our customers choose the Vertica Analytics Platform because it’s the best platform available for big data analytics. In order for our customers to get the most out of their analytics program, we needed to provide the best data connectivity to load data at the speed and scale needed by Vertica. We chose Simba. Simba delivered new, high-capacity ODBC, JDBC and ADO.NET data drivers so our customers can monetize ALL their data in real-time, offering a significant competitive advantage."

"Simba Technologies' depth and understanding of data connectivity is the reason that we are able to connect our nCluster analytics platform to many BI products. Simba applied its unique expertise to build Aster Data's cartridge connecting to Analysis Services, as well as provided all the components we needed for standardized ODBC and ADO.NET connectivity. Simba's support is very responsive and their solutions are right on target. Every time we try connecting a standards-based BI tool to nCluster, the connectivity just works."

"Simba’s highly collaborative approach helped us achieve our enterprise milestone to release new products and features with quick turnaround. Simba’s engineers really cared about the success of our product. We wanted a good partnership and really good connectivity software and we got both."

"We got great help from Simba how to set the ODBC attributes, which ones were relevant help for tuning and configuration. Every issue we encountered, we got answers very, very quickly."