Power Pivot for Excel Release
Microsoft released Power Pivot as an add-in for Excel 2010, introducing in-memory data modeling capabilities and the DAX language. This was a significant step towards empowering business users with advanced data analysis.
Significance
It democratized powerful tabular data modeling, previously reserved for SQL Server Analysis Services, and laid the foundational technology (VERTIPAQ engine and DAX) that would become central to Power BI.
Key facts
- Date
- 2010-11-17
- Type
- release
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA (Microsoft)