verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message simba technologies ltd kenya . type private founded 1991 headquarters vancouver british columbia canada key people amyn rajan ceo george chow cto products simbaengine odbc sdk simbaprovider olap sdk relationalcube simbao2x website www.simba.com 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 . which simba technologies was founded in vancouver and seattle washington in 1991 . customers include microsoft oracle corporation mis ag sap ag and descisys . contents 1 products 2 history 3 history 4 references products edit 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 . history edit 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 . citation needed odbc is a widely used data access inteface for relational database management systems rdbms . dec and oracle licensed simba products in 1993 . citation needed 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 . citation needed 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 history edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message 1991 simba technologies is founded in vancouver british columbia and seattle washington 1992 microsoft partners with simba to develop odbc 1993 microsoft puts simba technology on 30 million desktops 1993 digital and oracle partner with simba 1993 first to ship complete software development kits for odbc drivers 1994 attachmate liant and simba create legacy data product . simba focuses on connectivity solutions 1995 develops server based odbc for the unix market 1996 100th customer signed 1997 the first 100 % pure java jdbc driver created 1998 the first to deliver native ole db and ole db for olap odbo toolkits 1999 host and sponsor of the first ever industry event interoperate 99 in which 16 olap server and application vendors performed interoperability testing technical and marketing brainshare 1999 appointed chair of the mdx conformance sig of the analytical solutions forum asf 2000 simbaengine sdk 5.5 and simbaprovider for olap sdk 2.0 released 2000 simba and orbital technologies inc. form an alliance 2001 simbaengine sdk 6.0 and simbaengine sdk 6.1 released 2001 simbalab is launched following interoperate 99 2002 simbaengine sdk 6.2 and simbaprovider for olap sdk 2.5 released 2002 partners with microsoft and hyperion on xml for analysis 2002 xml for analysis interoperate workshop hosted 2003 simbaengine sdk 7.0 and simbaprovider sdk 3.0 released 2003 xml for analysis interoperate workshop ii hosted 2004 simbaengine sdk 7.2 simbaengine sdk 7.3 and simbaprovider sdk 3.1 released 2005 simbaengine sdk 7.4 released 2006 simbaprovider sdk 3.5 and simbaengine sdk 7.5 released 2007 simbaengine sdk 7.5.2 simbalib sdk 8.0 simbaprovider sdk 4.0 and simbaprovider sdk 4.1 released . simbaprovider sdk 4.0 includes the only mdx 2005 language compliant engine and parser outside of microsoft . simba s mdx 2005 technology is licensable for connectivity to multi dimensional products from companies like microsoft . 2008 simbaengine sdk 7.6 released 2009 simba releases mdx provider for oracle olap simbaengine sdk 8.0 simbaengine sdk 7.7 simbaprovider sdk 4.2 and simba odbc driver for microsoft healthvault 2010 simba releases simbaengine sdk 8.0.2 and simbaprovider sdk 4.3 and simbao2x 4.3 . simba s mdx provider for oracle olap product receives tia award for excellence in product innovation . simba releases mdx provider for oracle olap 2.0 2011 simba releases simbaengine sdk 8.1 and simbaprovider sdk 4.4 2012 simba releases simbaengine sdk 9 3 and odbc 3.52 driver for hadoop hive 2 2014 simba releases world s first big data odbc drivers for mac 4 references edit 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 . retrieved 2013 10 13 . a b marketwatch.com . marketwatch.com . retrieved 2013 10 13 . 1 dead link 2 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title simba technologies & oldid 734729660 categories software companies of canadahidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2013articles needing additional references from april 2013all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with specifically marked weasel worded phrasesarticles with specifically marked weasel worded phrases from april 2013all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced 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