Foreword
PowerPivot: What a name! Or I should really say what’s in a name? Powerful Pivoting? Pivot-table for power users?
PowerPivot is a lot more than that. When I started the PowerPivot project back in 2007, along with Amir Netz (Microsoft BI Distinguished Engineer), the incubation project was called BI Sandbox. We had been looking at a problem that had often been raised to us by IT people over years of trying to implement a BI system with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft software. How could they set up an environment to enable their business users to build their own BI applications without needing assistance from IT? They wanted to focus on building the right data store for the enterprise, secure it, and ensure its quality, but also get out ...
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