Sunday, 20 May 2012

Power Pivot - Excel

A free Microsoft Excel add-in which significantly increases the capability of Excel.
Providing a smart and effective tool for data analysis and business intelligence.
Its benefits include:

Work Faster
  • Ability to handle up to 100 million rows of data
  • Faster information processing via in-memory engine and compression algorithms

Integrate data from multiple sources
  • Data can be fed from several sources and analysis performed across multiple tables
  • Ability to create joins between tables, cleaner and faster than lookups
  • Functionality to pivot over multiple data tables at once

Increased functionality
  • DAX  Data Analysis Expressions Language
  • A new formula engine with additional functions, for example the Distinct count calculation

>MS Business Intelligence Tool – PowerPivot - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/powerpivot.aspx