PowerPivot, OData, and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

Jon Udell's interview with John C.Hancock (lead program manager in the SQL Server Analysis Services team).

PowerPivot, a new add-in for Excel, can absorb and analyze vast quantities of data. And it can ingest that data from sources that support that Atom-based OData protocol. John Hancock, who led the charge to create PowerPivot, tells host Jon Udell how it works, why it supports OData, and what this will mean not only for corporate business intelligence but also for the analysis of open public data.

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