What You Will Need
To begin working with PowerPivot for Excel, you first need to establish a development environment. Fortunately, the installation of PowerPivot for Excel is self-contained. The primary requirement for using the PowerPivot add-in is having Microsoft Office Excel 2010 installed. A wide spectrum of computers, from commodity desktops to high-end workstations can effectively run both Excel 2010 and the PowerPivot add-in. This makes a compelling argument for PowerPivot for Excel as a tool for business users who are not always on the leading edge of hardware acquisition. One of the most compelling demonstrations for PowerPivot for Excel is executing a sort on a 100-million row dataset deployed on an otherwise off-the-shelf Intel Atom-based ...
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