VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/15/12 -- Simba Technologies Inc. - industry's choice for standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity on In-Memory, Cloud and Big Data - announced today that it will present at the DOAG 2012 conference in Nuremberg, Germany. The session will demonstrate how Delphis Team Lines, a leading logistics company, uses Excel Pivot Tables for secure, easy, and reliable access to data in their Oracle OLAP cubes.

SESSION SYNOPSIS

Track Session #351:

"Leverage Excel and Oracle OLAP for Secure and Actionable BI and Ad-hoc Reporting"

Presented by Thomas Nifkiffa, concept-to-solution and Amyn Rajan, Simba Technologies Inc.

November 22nd, from 3pm - 3:45pm: Room 9 - Stockholm

Discover how Delphis Team Lines, a leading logistics company, securely extended analysis and reporting capabilities within its data intelligence network to its external agents around the world, by leveraging Oracle Database OLAP Option with Microsoft Excel. See how Excel's rich data selection, multi-dimensional display, hierarchical navigation and data visualization features ensured faster and better business decisions on Oracle Database stored data.

Learn how Excel's familiar interface enabled users to easily and directly perform sophisticated self-service business intelligence fully adhering to Oracle database security settings. See how fixed reporting and ad hoc analysis capabilities directly on Oracle OLAP data resulted in greater reporting efficiency organization-wide, as well as better control over data that its users used for self-service business intelligence.

This session demonstrates how users can leverage Excel to query rich analytical content and calculations directly from an Oracle OLAP database. Learn how to benefit from Excel's ad hoc query functionality, instantaneous report creation and one version of the truth data reporting, with one set of data models and Oracle security across the entire solution.

See how Oracle OLAP data can be queried, analyzed and reported on directly from within Excel, without pre-staging data into a costly mid-tier infrastructure and how to feed your PivotTables live enterprise data to make better, faster decisions. This presentation outlines a simple architecture for advanced analytics on Oracle-stored data, serving the complex BI needs of a global enterprise. If your organization uses Excel, this is a must see presentation.

Simba's MDX Query Language Technology Enables Direct Connectivity between BI Applications and Oracle OLAP

The MDX Query Language is the standard for analyzing multi-dimensional data. Simba's MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP brings the MDX Query Language to the Number 1 database in the world and allows all dimensional reporting products like Excel to easily connect to Oracle.

Simba's MDX technology supports MDX 2005, making it the most advanced, licensable technology of its kind. This is the same technology that powers solutions like Kognitio Pablo, Teradata OLAP, and SAP HANA.

For more information on Simba's MDX query language technology, visit: http://www.simba.com/olap-sdk.htm.

About DOAG 2012

The DOAG 2012 Conference on November 20-22, 2012 in Nuremberg, Germany is the biggest Oracle event in Europe with over 400 technical lectures. Over 60 companies will be displaying their products and services as well as offering hands-on experience and information on successfully implementing and using Oracle solutions. In addition to keynote lecturers, technical lectures, presentations and networking, the attendees will acquire a comprehensive overview of the services and products on the market.

For more information, visit www.doag.org.

About Simba Technologies Inc.

Simba Technologies (www.simba.com) is the recognized world leader in standards-based data access and analytics products and solutions for both relational and multi-dimensional data sources. Simba provides data connectivity solutions to many of the world's leading companies on various platforms, including Windows, Mac, UNIX, Linux and many mobile device platforms. Simba's data connectivity products support multiple interfaces, including ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO), XML for Analysis (XMLA), ADO, ADO.NET, ADOMD and ADOMD.NET.

Simba's software is used worldwide. Its customers include leading independent software vendors and global enterprises like arcplan Enterprise®, Datastax®, Hortonworks®, MapR®, Microsoft®, Oracle®, SAP®, Teradata® and Qubole.

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