A new component in SQL Server 2008 R2 gives users the autonomy to set up business intelligence functionality in Excel without taking control of the process away from IT. PowerPivot is Microsoft's new ...

As Microsoft PowerPivot is gaining more popularity and exposure, BI professionals ask more and more questions about PowerPivot’s role in the organization in trying to understand what value the new ...

Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ready? For years, BI vendors have promised a way for managers to easily build their own reports ...

Just a quick note to mention that a guest post I wrote on PowerPivot and how it can be used with some other new, obscure and/or experimental BI tools in Excel is now ...

This is a series of posts I’ve wanted to write for a long time. The more I use PowerPivot, the more I realise how many more cool things you can do when building your Excel reports if you know a bit of ...

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