Microsoft PowerPivot is equipping an army of Excel users with the chops to build their own business intelligence reports Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near?

Microsoft PowerPivot will equip an army of Excel users with business intelligence chops.

Good data management is a must. But PowerPivot may ease the proliferation of spreadsheets, suggests Herain Oberoi, director of product management for Microsoft’s SQL Server Business Group ...

Data Analysis eXpressions (DAX) includes more powerful functions for BI type data manipulations, including iterative expressions, grouping, linking, and filtering. The full promise of PowerPivot is ...