Introduction
Business intelligence (BI) is a concept that has been around for many years. Until recently, it has too often been a domain reserved for large corporations with teams of dedicated IT specialists. All too frequently, this has meant developing complex solutions using expensive products on timescales that did not meet business needs.
All this has changed with the advent of self-service business intelligence. Now a user with a reasonable knowledge of Microsoft Excel can leverage their skills to produce their own analyses with minimal support from central IT. Then they can deliver their insights to colleagues safely and securely via the cloud.
This democratization has been made possible by four Excel add-ins that combine to revolutionize ...
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