Slicers are an Excel feature designed by the Analysis Services team for use with PowerPivot models, but they can, in fact, be used with non-PowerPivot PivotTables as well.

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 ...

Microsoft PowerPivot will equip an army of Excel users with business intelligence chops.

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 Excel ...

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 ...

PowerPivot doesn't claim to solve the "corporate" BI goals of Cognos or Business Objects. These tools are designed to solve corporate requirements where consistency and compliance are more important ...

Microsoft PowerPivot is equipping an army of Excel users with the chops to build their own business intelligence reports Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near?

It comes free with Office 2010 and allows all of your Excel power users to dabble in business intelligence. Is it a godsend for IT or a new nightmare to manage?