Beginner's Guide to PowerPivot for Excel

The term Business Intelligence is always a buzz word in every organization dealing with lots of data. Be it schools, marketing agencies, financial institutions dealing with day to day market changes, sales, inventory - everyone needs data. This data need to be analyzed and presented to make vital information. There are lots of tools in the market that deal with providing this information. Some of them include QlikView, Monarch, etc. Every software has its own capabilities and features. Microsoft has come up with a software, "PowerPivot" to deal with this on a simpler basis and to bring Business Intelligence to the masses. PowerPivot is a powerful data mashup and data exploration tool based on xVelocity in-memory technologies providing unmatched analytical performance to process billions of rows at the speed of thought. This tip would explain various features of PowerPivot and ways to utilize them.