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Business Intelligence (BI) is a concept that has been around for many years. Until recently it has all too often been a domain reserved for large corporations with teams of dedicated IT specialists. All too frequently this has meant developing complex solutions using expensive products on timescales that rarely met real business needs.
All this has now changed with the advent of self-service business intelligence. Now, a user with a reasonable knowledge of Microsoft Excel can leverage their skills to produce accurate and meaningful analysis with little or no support from central IT.
The democratization has been made possible by four extensions to the Excel ecosystem that are all now integral parts of the core product. These elements combine to revolutionize the way that data is discovered, structured, and shaped so that it can be sliced, chopped, queried, and presented in an interactive and intensely visual way.
These are the four components of the Excel BI Toolkit:
*Get & Transform : To find, manage, morph, and load external data
*Power Pivot : To design and extend a coherent data model for analysis
*Power View : To present your findings interactively
*3D Maps : To display insights with a geographical slant
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