Microsoft Certifies Simba’s MDX Provider for Oracle OLAP as “Compatible with Windows 7”

Simba announced today that Microsoft has certified its MDX Provider for Oracle Database OLAP Option for Windows 7.

The press release is here : http://www.simba.com/news/MDX-Provider-for-Oracle-OLAP-Certified-for-Windows-7.htm

This is great news for MS Office connectivity to your Database OLAP cubes. Already supported was Excel 2010 with its cool new BI features, as well as 2007 and 2003 versions. With Windows 7 support too, even the most up-to-date PCs are in good shape to exploit the OLAP Option.

Remember - via the native Excel pivot table connectivity, other features of MS-Office can also leverage the power, performance and calculation functionality of Oracle OLAP. So for example, your Powerpoint presentation to the senior management team, or the one you use when talking to suppliers or key customers can now contain live charts onto the latest information available in the Oracle Database cubes. Instead of spending time cutting and pasting static images into your slide shows each day, week or period-end you can be focusing on the news in the data and doing a better analysis of the results.

This is the perfect complement to your use of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (10g or 11g) onto the exact same cubes for the broader BI use-case.

In addition to Microsoft Excel, Simba is gradually certifying other MDX front ends for the OLAP Option MDX Provider - with SAP-BusinessObjects Voyager already available and others due soon.

You can learn all about it on the Simba web site : http://www.simba.com/MDX-Provider-for-Oracle-OLAP.htm

Connectivity into Oracle Database OLAP 11g is market leading: with the same cubes and calculations being accessible via MDX as well as a huge range of SQL based tools and applications, it has never been easier to deploy multidimensional analytics to the masses.