Here, you might have customer information in an Excel file, order details in a SQL Server database, and marketing campaign data in a CSV file. Power Pivot lets you bring all of this together for a ...

Some have said that the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 (news, site) isn't really a big deal. Others disagree.

With Excel Power BI Desktop you can: • Connect securely to hundreds of data sources —in the cloud and on-premises • Transform and mash up data from multiple sources—in just a few clicks ...

SQL Server 2008 R2, which ships this month, allows end users to tap into the powerful business intelligence features of SQL Server via tight integration with popular Microsoft applications like Excel.

Lots of duplicated effort. Now, I can pull from multiple data sources directly into Excel and manipulate the data there. It even provides easy query builders, both for SQL and MDX, so that you don’t ...

Microsoft already supports business intelligence (BI) as part of Analysis Services, Excel and Power BI for Office 365; complex event processing with StreamInsight; and in-memory columnstore in SQL ...

It’s very possible, said Selim, to have a BI tool that’s usable for all skill sets in an enterprise, whether it’s business analytic users or frontline workers.