In-Depth Microsoft PowerPivot: Making Excel Analytics Work A new component in SQL Server 2008 R2 gives users the autonomy to set up business intelligence functionality in Excel without taking ...

Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is a language used to construct formulas in PowerPivot tables and Excel PivotTables. Until this point there hasn't been an editor for DAX that supports syntax ...

Note that DAX isn’t a substitute for the old formula language, but a complement to it; odds are you’ll still be using all of your existing Excel macro tricks in conjunction with PowerPivot.

The problem is that creating pivot tables is a bit tricky and time-consuming, so Google is lending a helping hand. Now, Sheets can intelligently suggest pivot tables to find the answers users need.