Is Excel Used In Business Analytics? Businesses continue to emphasize the importance of Excel skills because Excel is an intelligent way to extract insights that can be used to transform data into ...

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?

PowerPivot in Excel 2010 is an evolutionary improvement to the familiar Pivot Table model. Excel users can import or link to data in the usual way - via ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), or the like ...