Microsoft® PowerPivot for Excel® 2010

Chapter 11. Publishing to SharePoint

After you design your Microsoft Excel reports based on Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel, you can publish them to Microsoft SharePoint and share them with other people in your company using just a Web browser. Once published, the PivotTables are still interactive and you can schedule PowerPivot data to be automatically refreshed. In this chapter, you see what features are available to publish your workbooks to SharePoint without your depending on the IT department. However, the installation of SharePoint and its maintenance (there is some administrative effort required, even if just for security policies) is still the responsibility of the IT department, and it is not covered in this book. In this chapter, ...