Comments on: What is PowerPivot?

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 03:41:33 +0000

I just added this site to the Blog page on the Directory of Excel Experts as everyone needs to see this site. This is the best site for PowerPivot I have seen. I hope that it gets you traffic once that site is slowly launched.

By: powerpivotpro

powerpivotpro — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:10:56 +0000

Excel 2010 is required, sorry.

By: Thomas Abel

Thomas Abel — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:56:39 +0000

Hi,
the powerpivot tool is great, but is this tool only for excel 2010 or have I the chance to use it for the 2007 version?

By: valerie

valerie — Sun, 22 May 2011 02:59:35 +0000

Hi,

I am an experienced Excel user and a new PowerPivot user. While I am using Excel 2010, my company has not upgraded to SharePoint 2010 – we are still using 2007.
One of the benefits of PP you noted above is “1.That same report, published as an interactive web app, with a single click ….”. Since our SP is 2007 rather than 2010, do I have other options?

Thanks much,

valerie

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:27:13 +0000

Hi Rob

I’ve been reading your posts for the last 2 days, which is also how long i have known about PowerPivot. I’ve seen you say a few times that you are finding slow adoption among excel users. I just wanted to say, as an excel user, that this is the coolest thing i have ever seen and i think it may revolutionize my life. Seriously. I can’t wait to dig in!

Thanks,

Kate

By: Samuel MREJEN

Samuel MREJEN — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:03:57 +0000

Thank you for PowerPivotPro “institution” it is really good and enriching
I have a few questions/Request for enhancements

1. in powerpivot Fields TableList, a small place is dedicated to field name so the table name is ommited so i suggget to include the full field name (Table and field) in a toolTip for each of the six filter positions(slicer, report, column, lines etc..)
2. Where i can find , in powerpivot, the relation diagram between tables as in Access ?

By: ymac

ymac — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:56:12 +0000

Are you looking for a cube browser on sharepoint 2010 ?.
I am looking for the same feature as you but I can not find it.
It seems that to find a web application that allow to browse a ssas cube like the owc pivottable component allow to do it we have to search for a third party tool like dundas or http://ranetuilibraryolap.codeplex.com/. RRrhhh it makes me so frustated to say to all end-users they can not play with data as it was the case with the owc pivot control.
I know microsoft will tell me POWERPIVOT is the solution.
Ok, But How do I allow end user to create powerpivot sheet without excell 2010 ?
So, Microsoft will tell me: you ask your poweruser/key user (meaning more advanced business users) to create the powerpivot sheet and publish it to sharepoint 2010 with powerpivot and so end user can see powerpivot sheet and play with the data without having excell 2010…. Heuuurk , no.
Powerpivot for sharepoint does not allow to browse cube data and play with axes as we usually do it with the owc pivotable component.

What do I have to propose to my end users/business users so they can browse the cube and play with the data inside the cube ? pps … no … because it requires silverlight and my client does not allow silverlight to be installed … but this is another story.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:52:19 +0000

Rob you know you’re my hero… but with all do respect your sizzle reminds me of Sizzler

By: powerpivotpro

powerpivotpro — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:07:29 +0000

That is correct, excel is not required on the desktop for users who are consuming SharePoint PowerPivot reports. Just a browser.

By: Mandeep

Mandeep — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:16 +0000

Hi Paul,
Just want to clarify that if Powerpivot excel sheet is published using Sharepoint 2010, then users need not have excel on their PC’s??
In other words Excel 2010 is only required to develop Powerpivot sheet, but once it is published using Sharepoint 2010, users don’t need Excel 2010 locally. and they can still play with slicers and dicers.
Regards,
Mandeep