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Microsoft Access Loses Salesforce Connector - Here's Your Replacement Plan

Microsoft retired the Access Salesforce connector in October 2025. Here's how to keep your data flowing with the Simba Salesforce ODBC Driver. If you've been using Microsoft Access to connect to Salesforce, you need a new solution. The good news? Simba has been powering Microsoft's Salesforce connectivity under the hood for years. Same proven driver, same reliable performance. The switch is simple: update one connection string and your queries keep running, your reports stay intact, and your stakeholders don't even need to know anything changed.

Meet Qlik Answers

Discover how Qlik Answers transforms the way teams work with data. As part of Qlik’s newly released agentic experience in Qlik Cloud, Qlik Answers brings together natural language interaction, the power of the Qlik Analytics Engine, and governed, trusted data, all supported with transparent reasoning and citations.

Qlik for Snowflake - From Ingestion to Insights

In partnership with Snowflake, Qlik helps customers modernize data estates end to end—from ingestion to insight—using Qlik Talend Cloud Data Integration and an internal data marketplace. With no‑code/SQL pipelines, thousands of secure connectors, and built‑in governance and lineage, Qlik automates trusted data movement into Snowflake and turns it into certified, reusable data products—an “app store for insight”—that accelerate time to value and power advanced analytics and AI.

A Memory-centric Approach to System Strategy: 6 Takeaways from Supercomputing 2025

Artificial intelligence workloads are reshaping how memory is produced, priced, and prioritized. Not because the supply chain has fundamentally broken, but because manufacturers are making deliberate decisions about where to place capacity and capital. Wafer lines are being steered toward high-margin, long-term AI demand, not toward broad, undifferentiated expansion. HBM, advanced DRAM, and other AI-optimized memory now command the majority of investment and forward planning.

Build vs. Buy: Why Embedded Analytics is the Strategic Choice for Modern Data Leaders

For today’s CTOs and CIOs, the pressure to deliver actionable data insights within your products has never been higher. However, a critical dilemma often stalls your progress toward the business intelligence tools you need for the task: Should your engineering team build a bespoke analytics engine from scratch, or should you integrate a professional embedded solution?

From Raw Data to Strategy #OnTheSpot in Under 3 Minutes

"I’ve worked in the analytics industry for 25 years... this thing makes me as powerful as any analyst I’ve ever met." When ThoughtSpot’s Tony Hammond handed a raw dataset to Spotter, our agentic AI analyst, he wasn't just running a demo—he was witnessing a with a complete transformation of the analytics workflow.

A New Way to Run Pipeline Analysis #OnTheSpot

Jeffry Cape, our Senior GTM Enablement Manager, asked Spotter: "Look at our early stage pipeline generation performance from the dates of Shark Week in November and share what some of the best practices are". He wasn’t checking campaign stats—he was rewriting his daily workflow. A dashboard might tell you meetings are “up.” Spotter went further—running a hands-free deep dive on our global Shark Week program and surfacing what actually moves the needle on pipeline progression.

Unifying Snowflake & Apache Iceberg in Logi Symphony via Simba's ODBC Driver

How do you connect Snowflake and Apache Iceberg to embedded analytics without adding complexity? In this video, we demonstrate:→ Setting up the Simba Snowflake ODBC driver via system DSN→ Why pushdown queries matter for performance→ Building governed, reusable metrics in Logi Symphony→ Delivering fast, interactive dashboards on live retail data The result: unified sales and inventory analytics without the ETL pipelines, Python scripts, and custom services that create support headaches.