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• Dallas Utilities: Electricity seasonal use simulation using project codename “GeoFlow” Preview and Power View

  11 Apr 2013

  Igor Peev, Bryan Smith, and Ari Schorr collaborated on this article. Igor is a Senior Program Manager who enjoys working on challenging projects that deliver new, innovative and immersive experiences. In project codenamed "GeoFlow," Igor works on the data Time animation and the interactive Tours functionality...
• Public preview of project codename “GeoFlow” for Excel delivers 3D data visualization and storytelling

  11 Apr 2013

  Today we are announcing the availability of the project codename "GeoFlow" Preview for Excel 2013, a result of collaborations between several teams within Microsoft. GeoFlow lets you plot geographic and temporal data visually, analyze that data in 3D, and create interactive "tours" to share with others...
• PASS Business Analytics Conference: Keeping up with the evolving world of data

  26 Feb 2013

  The world of data continues to become bigger and more complex, with no plans to slow down. From April 10-12 in Chicago, data professionals and business analysts will gather at the PASS Business Analytics Conference to keep pace with the latest trends around big data, predictive analytics, data visualization...
• Introduction to PowerPivot in Excel 2013

  13 Dec 2012

  This blog post was brought to you by Diego Oppenheimer a Program Manager on the Excel team. Some weeks ago I introduced an important, new part of the Excel 2013 Data Model and how you could create relationships between different data sources right in your Excel workbook ( http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft...
• Intro to Power View for Excel 2013

  4 Oct 2012

  This blog post is brought to you by Allie Rutherford a Program Manager on the Excel team. Have you ever looked at a dashboard someone made and went, “man, I like that, but there’s too many steps for me to remember”? Or maybe wanted to have a way to play around with your data in a safe...
• Office Business Intelligence – The way people experience data

  26 Jul 2012

  This post is brought to you by Steve Tullis Group Program Manager of the Office Business Intelligence team. This is the third introductory post from the Excel family – Office BI. If you have not read Jane’s post about the Excel client, or Dan’s post about the browser-based versions...
• Yes, it is possible to create nice looking spreadsheets

  19 Jan 2012

  For the last couple years I’ve been meaning to pull together some of the tips that I’ve learned working on the Excel team about how to make nice looking spreadsheets. Well, last week, Rob Collie (a previous Excel Program Manager, and now CTO at Pivotstream and author of PowerPivotPro.com...
• Data’s got a brand new bag: PowerPivot for Excel (video)

  17 Nov 2011

  There's lots of data out there: LOTS. The digital universe is about eight hundred thousand petabytes (that's eight hundred million gigabytes). Your business is no doubt contriubting to that number and needs a way to work with it. PowerPivot is a free add-in for Excel that can link multiple spreadsheets...
• Free training: Take the next steps in growing your Excel skills

  28 Jun 2011

  In early May, we told you about the new video series Excel Skills Builder in our post " Take the first step in growing your Excel skills ." In that post, we announced the launch of lesson 1. Well, we've finally finished the rest of the lessons, and wanted to share this great resource with you! As a reminder...
• Where to begin: PowerPivot for Excel

  24 May 2011

  By now, you've probably read about PowerPivot in one of our many posts about it (such as Introducing PowerPivot , Using PowerPivot with Excel 2010 , or Supercharge your budget sheets with PowerPivot for Excel 2010 ), and you totally get the picture of how powerful this feature is. Its ability to process...
• Visualize this: Win an Xbox 360 with our PowerPivot quiz

  10 May 2011

  What kind of PowerPivot nerd are you? A Numbers Ninja? A Data Mining Wizard? Find out by taking our Nerdtastic PowerPivot Quiz on Facebook. Besides learning if you're the nerdiest PowerPivot user of them all, you'll automatically be entered to win an Xbox 360 + Kinect just for participating. So head...
• Portable formulas: A PowerPivot benefit you’ll never believe you lived without

  5 May 2011

  Former Excel team member Rob Collie is CTO of Pivotstream and writes the PowerPivotPro blog, describing his experiences adopting Excel PowerPivot. Hey everybody, last time I posted here I talked about the top 5 benefits that PowerPivot provides to Excel pros. But I left one crucial advantage out, perhaps...
• Conquer your calendar: Use PowerPivot to analyze your time (video)

  28 Apr 2011

  Today we are very excited to release a free tool that uses PowerPivot for Excel--Calendar Analytics. Calendar Analytics is a time management application that pulls information from Microsoft Exchange and visualizes that data in a very easy-to-use Excel dashboard. We are releasing this application in...
• Top 5 Ways PowerPivot Helps Excel Pros

  1 Oct 2010

    This blog post is brought to you by Rob Collie CTO at PivotStream. Former co-founder of the PowerPivot team and Lead PM for Excel at Microsoft, broad-spectrum geek and cruncher of sports stats.   Hello Excel Pros! I’d like to start by saying this: You are my kind of people. I’ve met hundreds...