PowerPivot for Business Intelligence Using Excel and SharePoint

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Summary

This first chapter introduced you to the PowerPivot for Excel add-in and covered the following details:

PowerPivot for Excel allows for the combination of related data from a variety of sources.
PowerPivot for Excel is available in two distinct versions, 32-bit and 64-bit. The version you need depends on your version of Office, not on your operating system.
There is no way to author solutions in PowerPivot for Excel without Microsoft Office Excel 2010.

Two distinct user interfaces, Excel and PowerPivot, are used to create PowerPivot solutions.

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