A multi-billion dollar liquor distributor runs an expensive promotional campaign every year, but can only guess if it actually boosts profits.  A top five US retailer experiences a supply chain disruption, and the office of its President urgently needs to quantify the impact.  A social media network collects millions of data points each day but has no way to track whether users signing up this year are being retained better than last year’s signups.

In the past, answering each of these literal million-dollar questions would have been the focus of a massive, expensive, and time consuming Business Intelligence project, if it were tackled at all.  But in recent months, all of these real-world problems were quickly resolved by a small team of business users and a SharePoint 2010 feature known as PowerPivot.

In this webinar Jeff DeVerter from Rackspace and Rob Collie of Pivotstream LLC cover the following topics:

•What PowerPivot is, how you build applications with it, and what those finished applications can look like
 
•How PowerPivot and SharePoint work together and how PowerPivot can compress multi-month projects into an afternoon
 
•How Pivotstream addresses common sticking points in PowerPivot v1 and the challenges associated deploying a functional SharePoint and PowerPivot solution

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