Modern business intelligence demands speed, and utilizing AI tools for Excel is the ultimate way to hyper-charge your data workflows this year.

Microsoft recaps Excel’s June 2026 features, including Copilot personalization, more file support, workbook rules, and PivotTable fixes.

Power Query and Power Pivot help Excel users manage large datasets more efficiently. Power Query focuses on cleaning and preparing data, while Power Pivot handles analysis and reporting. Together, ...

DuckDB is an amazing tool with deep integration with Python and R, but sometimes you just need data in Excel. xlDuckDb allows DuckDB SQL to be run within Excel. Query results are returned as regular ...

What if the tool you’ve been using for years is far more powerful than you ever imagined? Excel, often dismissed as “just a spreadsheet program,” has transformed into a data analysis powerhouse ...

Spreadsheet apps like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are used worldwide to organize and analyze data, but getting the right information into them isn’t always straightforward. Businesses often need ...

Apple's Numbers spreadsheet for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, is not as powerful as Microsoft Excel, but most users will be hard-pressed to find its limitations — and will immediately see how much easier ...

ExcelTable is a pipelined table interface to read Excel files (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xls, .xml), ODF spreadsheet files (.ods), and flat files (delimited or positional) as if they were external tables.

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...