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Excel Power Pivot & Power Query For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Excel Power Pivot & Power Query For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Michael Alexander
March 2022
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
288 pages
7h 21m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from Excel Power Pivot & Power Query For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2

Introducing Power Pivot

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Getting to know the Internal Data Model

check Activating the Power Pivot add-in

check Linking to Excel data

check Managing relationships

Over the past decade or so, corporate managers, eager to turn impossible amounts of data into useful information, drove the business intelligence (BI) industry to innovate new ways of synthesizing data into meaningful insights. During this period, organizations spent lots of time and money implementing big enterprise reporting systems to help keep up with the hunger for data analytics and dashboards.

Recognizing the importance of the BI revolution and the place that Excel holds within it, Microsoft proceeded to make substantial investments in improving Excel’s BI capabilities. It specifically focused on Excel’s self-service BI capabilities and its ability to better manage and analyze information from the increasing number of available data sources.

The key product of that endeavor was essentially Power Pivot (introduced in Excel 2010 as an add-in). With Power Pivot came the ability to set up relationships between ...

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