Comments on: What is PowerPivot?

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

By: powerpivotpro

powerpivotpro — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:24:07 +0000

Hi Paul. I need to understand a little better before I can answer. Are you looking for an ad hoc query tool to use against SSAS, or against other sources?

By: Paul Volkmuth

Paul Volkmuth — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:37:08 +0000

We are putting up our first SSAS cube at our really large hospital system.

We have two or three (depends on how you count) dashboard tools in place, so the integrated data from our ODS will be great, but really won’t add any new features to our performance monitoring. It will give more depth and breadth.

Our doctors and researchers have no ad-hoc query facilities, and were/are looking forward to Proclarity and the ability to do pull reporting (consider metrics and dashboards a push for this question).

Your screenshot above looks like the Gemini demo I got from Microsoft in January. Every demo, picture, discussion I have had since focuses on powerpivot’s integration with Sharepoint for metrics/dashboards or some really weird v-lookup thingy for power users.

As someone looking at the Proclarity successor, where would you point me for more info on these features in Powerpivot?

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:29:12 +0000

Hi all, thanks for this great site. It has really helped my. I had some questions about hardware. I have a team of about 6 analysts that I need to get new hardware for and wanted to know what the best spec would be in order to use powerpivot and just deal with massive data sets in general. i need to stick with XP so I assume a 64 bit version with 5 or 6 GB of ram? Anyone have some dream machine specs in mind? Out current setup of 32 bit, 2Gb of ram is painfully slow.

Thanks

By: kasper de jonge`

kasper de jonge` — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:14:48 +0000

Hi José,

This unfortunately won’t work. The PowerPivot gallery is a different sort of document library. When you call a slicer in this library the data will be loaded to the MSOLAP server which runs in memory on the server.

So you have to run the SharePoint PowerPivot services to execute PowerPivot files on SharePoint.

Kasper

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By: José Quinto

José Quinto — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:21:32 +0000

Hi Rob,

What happen if I upload to SP2010 site (that hasn´t installed PowerPivot for SharePoint) a PowerPivor workbook with a slicer. And then I open with excel services and change the slicer?
1. Can I upload a PowerPivot file in this system?
2. Excel Services show slices dinamically or static?

Thanks

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