Summary

This first chapter introduced you to the PowerPivot for Excel add-in and covered the following details:

• PowerPivot for Excel allows for the combination of related data from a variety of sources.
• PowerPivot for Excel is available in two distinct versions, 32-bit and 64-bit. The version you need depends on your version of Office, not on your operating system.
• There is no way to author solutions in PowerPivot for Excel without Microsoft Office Excel 2010.

Two distinct user interfaces, Excel and PowerPivot, are used to create PowerPivot solutions.