Power BI, Microsoft’s business analytics service, has over 250,000 customers. It follows that Microsoft would start there to help businesses access their data in Excel.

Power BI is a cloud service that lets users access and share their Microsoft Excel reports anywhere on any device. The service works with Excel in tandem to offer a complete self-service analytics ...

Microsoft is launching a couple of features to Excel today that make the ubiquitous spreadsheet software a bit more powerful. Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and ...

Getting viable data from an Excel workbook into Power BI for data visualization purposes takes some specific preparation. Here is what you need to do.

Katmai, PerformancePoint Server and Excel will play key roles in Microsoft's quest to make business intelligence more ubiquitous.

Microsoft consolidates its PowerPivot, Power View, Data Explorer and GeoFlow properties into one self-service, cloud and mobile BI platform, delivered via Office 365.

OpenAI led the funding round for an AI agent that could change your relationship with Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

At a certain point Microsoft decided to reboot Power BI, and change the packaging and pricing approach significantly. Dependencies on Excel, SharePoint and Office 365 were removed.

A similar phenomenon can be observed within the popularization of the analytics dashboard, which can be created using programs ranging from Tableau to Microsoft Power BI to, yes, Excel.

Information protection makes sure that only people with permissions see data in Power BI, while retaining the ability to share top-level trends, balancing productivity and security.

About ProClarity Founded in 1995, ProClarity is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has been a leading provider of third-party analytics tools based on Microsoft’s BI platform since 1999.

Microsoft has released a private beta of its first commercial business intelligence application, which is designed to give enterprise users desktop access to scorecards that measure performance ...