![]() ![]() ![]() By creating customized models unique to your business, using Power Pivot and other specialty excel functions. ![]() By working alongside you as a thought partner to design, structure, build, and deliver a range of financial models, budgets, and big-data analyses/projects, all en route to decisions around captive projects, mergers and acquisitions, or strategic investments.How Can a Finance Expert or Excel Consultant Help Your Business? Power Pivot is expressed by Microsoft using DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), which is a collection of functions, operators, and constants usable in a formula or expression to calculate/return one or more values.Power Pivot was created in direct response to the big data demands of contemporary business intelligence needs, which prior generations of Excel-given their 1,048,576 row limit or processing speed shortcomings-struggled to cope with.According to Microsoft, " Power Pivot enables you to import millions of rows of data from multiple data sources into a single Excel workbook, create relationships between heterogeneous data, create calculated columns and measures using formulas, build PivotTables and PivotCharts, and further analyze the data so that you can make timely business decisions without requiring IT assistance.".Introduced to Excel 20 as an add-on, but now native to the application, Power Pivot is part of Microsoft's business intelligence stack capable of (but not limited to) big data analytics work without specialty infrastructure or software.There might be a delay before it’s available globally. Who gets it?Ĭheck Performance is only available in Excel on the web, at least for the moment. That post says there’s “… more about this feature” at a Microsoft Support page., but that page doesn’t really tell customers any more and certainly not the sort of detail they deserve. The current blog post covers only the basics. Like many Office features, it needs better documentation so paying customers can understand what they get and not to expect from the tool. We like the idea of “Check Performance” though the title might seem to promise too much. Only very large workbooks will noticeably benefit from these checks. More complex performance issues like unnecessary or repeated calculations or data links are beyond “Check Performance”, at least in its current form. The tool is very much looking for easily detected issues or ‘low hanging fruit’ in a workbook. Formatting like Fill Color and Borders will be removed from empty cells. “Check Performance” might change the look of a workbook. Backup firstĭo we need to remind about backups? “Check Performance” should not change your workbook results and it’s hard to see how it could, but don’t risk it and run the new tool over a backup workbook. Otherwise they will have a lot of Excel users wondering why ‘empty’ cells aren’t being detected by “Check Performance”. See what we mean by ‘cautious’? It’s a wise move by the Microsoft developers but needs to be properly explained. Just that single cell reference changed “Check Performance” results for all the other cells in Column F, even ones NOT linked to any other cell. ![]()
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