Microsoft consolidates its PowerPivot, Power View, Data Explorer and GeoFlow properties into one self-service, cloud and mobile BI platform, delivered via Office 365.

Microsoft PowerPivot will equip an army of Excel users with business intelligence chops Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ...

Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ready? For years, BI vendors have promised a way for managers to easily build their own ...

PowerPivot is Microsoft's new self-service business intelligence (BI) product that seeks to make peace between IT and Excel users. PowerPivot is a component of SQL Server 2008 R2 that works with ...

Microsoft BI engineer Amir Netz joined senior exec Ted Kummert to demo new technology the company is working on to go beyond current capabilities of its recently released PowerPivot "BI for the masses ...

It's not expected that the Excel PowerPivot component will require additional licensing, though to experience the full power of the solution you'd need to use the server side components delivered in ...

As with PowerPivot, Power View functionality blurs the line between self-serve and provider-driven BI. It requires some fairly heavy lifting and technical savvy to set up data sources, define data ...

This action will launch the Measure dialog box where new measure formulas can be created using the DAX formula programming language. (DAX is an abbreviation for Data Analysis Expressions, which is the ...

Microsoft's Q&A natural-language search technology is one of the new additions to its Power BI for Office 365 preview.