Spreadsheets, which have long been a disruptive force to enterprise IT, to some extent are the "killer" applications that helped drive the adoption of personal computers (PCs) in the enterprise.

What it does: Getting your data into analysis-ready format can be half the battle (or more) when using a spreadsheet. Microsoft Data Explorer Preview for Excel is designed to help by easing data ...

A new component in SQL Server 2008 R2 gives users the autonomy to set up business intelligence functionality in Excel without taking control of the process away from IT. PowerPivot is Microsoft's new ...

Yesterday, Microsoft released the Preview (beta) of Office 2013. There’s lots of coverage out there on what this means for content creation on tablets…but in most of those analyses "content" ...

Before upgrading to Office 2013, take a close look -- you may lose more than expected, specifically the PowerPivot BI tool that was free in Excel 2010 As part of the deluge of mail flooding my way ...