Have you found this content useful? Use the button above to save it to your profile. Simon Hurst advises how Excel’s PowerPivot add-in can streamline your dashboard measures. Tutorial 3 in this series ...

One of the things I’ve always wanted to do with PowerPivot is to parameterise the connections used to import data. Despite PowerPivot’s ability to handle massive data volumes, most of the time you ...

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 ...

A free and compelling add-on, PowerPivot can import huge data sets from just about any data source and crunch them in Excel The core idea behind PowerPivot is deceptively simple: Since people use ...

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 ...

This blog post was brought to you by Diego Oppenheimer a Program Manager on the Excel team. Some weeks ago I introduced an important, new part of the Excel 2013 Data Model and how you could create ...

In part 4 of this series (sorry for the long wait since then!) I finished off looking at what you can do with named sets. Now, before I go on to more important topics like Excel cube functions and ...

Last week, we announced the availability of the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP. Today we are excited to share that the SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot downloads for Microsoft Excel 2010 and Microsoft ...

Have you found this content useful? Use the button above to save it to your profile. This is the fifth part of our series looking at new tools for Working with accounts data in Excel 2010 and 2013 and ...

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 ...