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  • PowerPivotPro – Excel, SharePoint, and PowerPivot

    11 May 2010
    An interesting post on PowerPivotPro about Automating a report using Excel, SharePoint, and PowerPivot: “Let’s say you don’t have much need for handling large data volumes, your organization isn’t large enough to worry about spreadsheet robustness/business intelligence/one version of the truth, and you...

  • PowerPivot Alpha Geek Challenge

    3 Mar 2010
    There was a recent contest with PowerPivot, see the details of the contest here: http://www.exceleratorsquiz.com/challenge.html There were some great PowerPivot reports submitted, including some from our MVPs: Bill Jelen created a “Tag Cloud & SmartArt Updated Via PowerPivot!” report:   Tushar...

  • Management Features of PowerPivot for SharePoint

    1 Feb 2010
    Thanks to John Hancock from the PowerPivot team for putting together this post. Previous articles have covered some of the features of PowerPivot for Excel, and shown how PowerPivot helps users build really powerful BI applications right in Excel. We have described some of the PowerPivot for SharePoint...

  • Announcing Office 2010 and PowerPivot Beta Availability

    18 Nov 2009
    From the Office 2010 Engineering blog : Today is an exciting day! At PDC we announced the availability of the public betas of Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for business customers. If you’d like to be one of the millions of people who try,...

  • PowerPivot for SharePoint 2010 – The Business User’s Perspective

    29 Oct 2009
    This article continues the series on PowerPivot that started with an overview as well as an introduction to PowerPivot for Excel 2010. We’ll now focus on the support PowerPivot provides for collaboration. Frequently, business users need to share applications they create on their desktops with a workgroup...

  • Using PowerPivot with Excel 2010

    23 Oct 2009
    In this blog article, we’ll step through using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 for building a rich application in Excel. Note: following screenshots describe the SQL Server 2008 R2 August Community Technology Preview (CTP) functionality for a feature codenamed Gemini. As recently announced , Gemini will be...

  • New PowerPivot Site

    23 Oct 2009
    More info and a fun video here: http://powerpivot.com/

  • Introducing PowerPivot

    22 Oct 2009
    Today we have a guest author from the SQL Server Analysis Services team, Ashvini Sharma, to tell us about the PowerPivot (née Gemini) feature that you may have heard about recently. PowerPivot is the recently announced name of technologies this blog previously referred to by its codename, Gemini. This...

  • Gemini Team Blog

    20 Aug 2009
    Last month, we blogged about Project Gemini, a cool new add-on to Excel and SharePoint that lets you do some powerful data analysis. Well, the first preview release of Gemini is out this month as part of the SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP. The Gemini product team has started a new blog http://blogs.msdn...

  • Sneak Preview of Project Gemini

    15 Jul 2009
    On the topic of “teasers”, one of the things we’ll be talking about in the coming weeks is project Gemini. I won’t get into the details just yet (otherwise it wouldn’t be a teaser), other than to say it’s a powerful data analysis feature, it’s an add-in to Excel (i.e. not a built-in Excel feature), and...