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Does Excel still have a place in analytics efforts? Let's look at the pros and cons of using the old workhorse, the spreadsheet.
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A good rule of thumb is if you’re doing something the same way you did it in 1985, it might be time for a change.
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Microsoft, at their recent Ignite conference in Orlando this week shared how AI will be integrated into Excel
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As exciting as it is to add AI to a productivity tool, the reality is the end results are going to be limited no matter how sophisticated the AI is.
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Act-On Software is banking on Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel to deliver analytics from its marketing automation platform through a new reporting tool released today.
The Portland, Ore.-based marketing automation provider released Engagement Insights, which produces analytics through pre-configured, templated reports in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.
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How do you react when your company's software is too clunky to use?
If you are one of the people IFS North America surveyed for a forthcoming report, you turn to Microsoft Excel.
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You’d think stock traders, of all people, would have the best data available. But that wasn’t the case when JPMorgan started bleeding billions on bad trades.
Investors got worried. The bank dismissed their concerns as “a tempest in a teapot.”
Turns out it was a tempest in a spreadsheet.
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Microsoft has a long history of providing on-premises and desktop-based project management software. With the advent of Office 365, Microsoft progressively moved more and more of the project capabilities to the cloud with new additions announced regularly, such as the recent announcement of Office 365 Planner.
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One billion Excel users may not sleep tonight. It won’t be a problem that keeps them awake, but a new toy. And, get this -- it’s free. Today Microsoft introduces a new Power BI -- a service that helps users bring data in, wring value out and visualize the results.
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Remember the old days when it seemed that all you need to know from your computer is how to save a Microsoft Excel file? If you are a marketer those days seem rosy compared to what’s happening in digital media.
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Microsoft promised to bring analytics to a billion screens last February when it finally launched Power BI for Office 365. Starting this week, Office 365 users will be able to do both data mining and predictive forecasting.
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Or at least that’s the goal. And if anyone has a chance to achieve it in the near term, it’s Quentin Clark, the corporate Vice President of the company’s Data Platform Group, and his team. Today the Redmond, Wash.-based company will announce the general availability of Power BI for Office 365, a cloud-based business
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When Microsoft released Office Mobile for iPhone, it said it would be doing the same for Android. Today , it has finally released the Android version for Office 365 subscribers. Mobile Office for Office 365 v Windows Phone 8 There is little difference between the iPhone version of last month and the Android version announced
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After years of will they/won't they, Microsoft has finally released an Office app for the iPhone (usable, but not optimized for the iPad), finally bringing its platform agnostic play to Apple devices.
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