If you've have lots of data and lots of analysis to do, but little time or skill, you need Excel's Power Pivot feature. Here's how to get started with it.

Key Takeaways : Enable PowerPivot: Go to the Excel Options, click on Add-Ins, and enable the PowerPivot add-in. Import Data: Use the PowerPivot window to import data from various sources such as ...

Before we dive into pivot tables in Excel, letâ s have a quick word about it. A pivot table is a powerful tool in Excel to summarize and analyze your vast database in different ways.

You can filter connections, refresh pivot tables, change data sources, and connect multiple pivot tables from the top menu. It’s one of the effective ways to maximize productivity in Excel.

We are now living in the age of big data. Data is being collected all the time and for increasingly detailed transactions. This can lead to an overwhelming amount of data, which brings about a need ...

As the name implies, PowerPivot is a PivotTable on steroids. With PowerPivot, you can pull into Excel large amounts of data from multiple database tables, databases, or other sources of data, then ...

With Excel 2010, Microsoft made PowerPivot -- one of its prime data-analytics technologies -- available for use by anyone with any edition of Excel 2010 by installing the PowerPivot for Excel add-in.

Typically, it is fairly easy to export the required data into Excel. But, depending on the structure or format of the data, or if multiple data tables need to be combined, it is not always easy to ...

A chart created in Excel by slicing and dicing data stored in PowerPivot. The results are interactive, but only in PowerPivot-connected versions of Excel 2010. More great free stuff for Windows ...

On the client, PowerPivot is a free downloadable add-in to Excel 2010 that allows users to import data from a dizzying array of sources.