We are very excited to announce the Microsoft Office Division team has released to manufacturing Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013. The Office team has made a number of significant Business Intelligence investments in Office and SharePoint 2013 that we are proud to share with you.
New capabilities delivered for end users in Excel 2013:
- Analyze data ranging from a few rows to hundreds of millions of rows with extreme analytical performance on your desktop using Excel data models powered by xVelocity in-memory analytics engine.
- Speed up analysis in Excel by easily cleaning up and shaping your data with Flash Fill; by previewing, applying conditional formatting, creating tables, charts and PivotTables using Quick Analysis; by easily navigating multidimensional and tabular data models using Quick Explore.
- Access, mash-up and analyze data from virtually any source and rapidly create compelling analytical applications with PowerPivot.
- Stunning data visualization to discover new insights at the speed of thought with a highly interactive and familiar data exploration, visualization, and presentation experience for users of all levels with Power View.
New capabilities delivered for IT:
- Discovery and assessment of user-created spreadsheets with SharePoint 2013.
- Compare spreadsheets, track lineage, conduct interactive diagnostics and create spreadsheet analysis reports with Inquire in Excel 2013.
Please find more details about our BI investments in our July blog post. Business customers will be able to buy new version of Office and SharePoint starting on December 1, 2012.