When you connect your Excel, Tableau or QlikView to your Hadoop data in Cloudera, Hortonworks, or MapR, you are connecting via a Simba ODBC Driver. Simba, a twenty-year veteran in the industry, ...

Furthering its commitment to connect SQL Server and rich business intelligence tools, such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPivot for Excel 2010 and Power View, with unstructured data, Microsoft announced ...