Simon Hurst advises how Excel’s PowerPivot add-in can streamline your dashboard measures. Tutorial 3 in this series looked at PowerPivot dashboards. An updated “release candidate” version of ...

NOTE: This post was written before Data Explorer was renamed as Power Query. All of the content is still relevant to Power Query. One of the first questions I get asked after showing someone ...

Visual Basic Script (VBS) refresher for Excel files with Power Query and PowerPivot model, helping to update workbooks in automated way (+ can be scheduled). In addition, some useful VBS files that ...

PowerPivot is Microsoft's new self-service business intelligence (BI) product that seeks to make peace between IT and Excel users. PowerPivot is a component of SQL Server 2008 R2 that works with ...

PowerPivot for Excel provides non-expert BI users the ability to create powerful BI solutions using Excel. PowerPivot for SharePoint facilitates the online hosting, sharing and collaboration of these ...

The core idea behind PowerPivot is deceptively simple: Since people use Excel as a generic data analysis tool, why not make Excel into a front end for data analysis from any number of sources, not ...