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 ...

With Office 2010 and the Microsoft PowerPivot, Microsoft hopes to capitalize on the widespread use of Excel as a self-serve BI platform by providing specific features that help the Excel user capture, ...

Good data management is a must. But PowerPivot may ease the proliferation of spreadsheets, suggests Herain Oberoi, director of product management for Microsoft’s SQL Server Business Group.