In today’s accounting world, financial and operational data typically is stored in a variety of programs and formats. When accountants need to prepare a report based on data from various systems, the ...

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 ...

If your are wondering how to handle large datasets and complex calculations in your spreadsheets. This is where MS Excel PowerPivot comes into play. PowerPivot is an advanced feature in Excel that ...

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 ...

Microsoft Excel's PivotTable tool is vital for drawing analyses from big datasets in just a few clicks. However, understanding the often confusing PivotTable Fields pane is essential to making the ...

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Spreadsheets, which have long been a disruptive force to enterprise IT, to some extent are the "killer" applications that helped drive the adoption of personal computers (PCs) in the enterprise.

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 ...

The importance of Excel 2010 in conjunction with SQL Server 2008 R2 lies in the PowerPivot feature that incorporates extensive column compression technology named “VertiPaq”. It was not too long ago ...