Excel isn't going away, but it's going to stop accumulating extra tools like barnacles. Instead Power BI Desktop will become the self-service analytics hub.

To truly grasp the impact of this evolution, it's essential to examine the traditional roles of Excel, SQL and Python. The Traditional Role of Excel Excel, with its roots dating back to Lotus-123 ...

Self-service business intelligence has become the go-to tool for business decisions. Here's how Power BI and Tableau stack up on features and ... Excel Data Model tables, and Power View sheets.

Tableau and Power BI are similar in many ways but have some significant differences, which are detailed in the sidebar “Power BI vs. Tableau.” For more on Tableau, see the accompanying article, “Excel ...

Tableau’s criticisms of Power BI include limiting visualizations to 3,500 data points, difficulty in calculating what-if scenarios and inability to customize pop-up boxes (although Power BI does ...

And with that, enterprises can now easily connect their business intelligence tools like Tableau and Microsoft’s Power BI to these data repositories as well. SQL Analytics will be available in ...