VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA and PERTH, AUSTRALIA — (Marketwire) — 12/13/11 — Simba Technologies Inc., the industry expert on relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity, announced today that it has licensed its MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP software product to Essatto Software. Simba-s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP product will connect Microsoft Excel with the Essatto framework built upon an Oracle Database platform. Essatto customers gain the flexibility to use Excel to view, manipulate and report on powerful financial analyses generated within their Essatto solutions.
Essatto will bundle and sell Simba-s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP product with its range of BI solutions designed for consolidating and analyzing historical financial data, forecasting and preparing standardized reports. Essatto-s Excel view will be powered by Simba-s product.
“The Essatto framework provides powerful, pre-built analyses and reports from data stored within an Oracle Database OLAP Option cube,” said Amyn Rajan, Simba-s CEO. “Simba-s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP is ideally paired with Essatto to allow users to view and perform further ad hoc data exploration and analysis within Excel. The Excel solution further extends Essatto-s popular analytic capabilities – especially in functional areas where deep ad hoc analysis is often needed, such as finance.”
“Essatto undertook an extensive global search for a solution that would allow end users to connect Excel to our multi-dimensional application, and we were pleased to have found Simba whose product during our evaluation satisfied all of our key criteria and significantly outperformed the alternatives,” said Guy Ioppolo, Managing Director of Essatto Software. “Simba has simplified and strengthened the link between Excel and Essatto-s underlying Oracle data cube for better integration from database interface to spreadsheet output. Our customers gain greater flexibility to explore, manipulate and report on key financial analyses generated by their Essatto solutions.”
Using the solution, spreadsheet users no longer need to extract data manually for further ad hoc analysis. Simba-s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP product provides direct, hot connectivity from Excel to the singular instance of Essatto data within the underlying Oracle OLAP data store. By combining the rapid deployment of Oracle OLAP provided by Essatto with the Excel connectivity to the OLAP layer delivered by Simba, users gain fast, up-to-date access for accurate ad hoc analysis and reporting within a secure environment.
The solution is available from Essatto now.
About Simba-s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP Product
Simba-s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP is the Oracle recommended solution for directly connecting Excel to Oracle OLAP data. The software product is an easy to install, client-side driver that directly connects familiar OLAP applications like Microsoft Excel, SAP BusinessObjects BI Suite and arcplan Enterprise to an Oracle OLAP database for powerful ad hoc query, analysis, dashboarding and reporting. It supports connectivity to Oracle Database 11g OLAP Option, including Oracle accelerated hardware like Exadata.
About Essatto Software
Essatto Software provides historical reporting of financial and operational information, budgeting and planning, cost allocations, consolidations, what-if analysis together with historical and budgeted customer and product profitability through its cost allocations engine. Essatto caters for businesses of all sizes and more information of these solutions can be found at .
About Simba Technologies Inc.
Simba Technologies () is the recognized world leader in standards-based data access products, solutions and services 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 Infor®, Kognitio®, Microsoft®, Oracle®, SAP® and Teradata®.
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Contacts:
Simba Technologies Inc.
Jay Elliott
+1.604.633.0008 x106
media(at)simba.com
Essatto Software
Cameron Gill
+61 8 6382 1730
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