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 ...

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 ...

How to combine and analyze data from multiple data sets using Excel Power Pivot Your email has been sent If you've have lots of data and lots of analysis to do, but little time or skill, you need ...

Microsoft's carrot-and-stick approach designed to move users to Microsoft-preferred Office SKUs is continuing. The latest group to discover new and more restrictive Office 2013 licensing changes is ...

You poured data into a pivot table. Now what? Make them smarter. Here's how to use Summarizing Data and Calculated Fields in order to get a different perspective on your marketing data through the ...

Pivot tables have long been the standard tool for summarizing and analyzing data in Excel, and they work well for many tasks. But if you've ever found yourself clicking through multiple menus just to ...