PowerPivot – a technology available for Excel and for SharePoint 2010 – provides BI (Business Intelligence) functionality to end users in a familiar environment (Excel and SharePoint), i.e., giving meaning to numbers.
PowerPivot for SharePoint provides the right technology to distribute business insights to all employees helping lead to better, faster, more relevant decisions while avoiding the proliferation of spreadmarts and data silos in the enterprise.
If you are planning on installing PowerPivot and have never done it before, have a look at the step-by-step guide over on PowerPivot-info.com.
Further read:
powerpivot.com (Microsoft’s entry into PowerPivot info with lots of demos and videos)
Cristian Petculescu on Business Intelligence and the PivotViewer Extension for Reporting Services Session#1
What the Masters think about SharePoint 2010 – PowerPivot
Thanks Samuel for pointing it out.
