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I'm wondering how Microsoft is responding to this. Do they expect their current Excel dominance to continue despite competitors constantly catching up to featur
by darwhy 9y ago
I'm wondering how Microsoft is responding to this. Do they expect their current Excel dominance to continue despite competitors constantly catching up to feature parity and even extra goodies, like this one?
- MitjaBezensek 9y agoThey are betting heavily on Power BI: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/ https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/
- tryitnow 9y agoActually, this has been available in Power BI for a while. I just went to a meetup last night and saw it in action. It's fairly trivial to get this to work with well-formatted data. I'm currently evaluating BI solutions for my company and just about every single one has something like this.
- intrasight 9y agoYes, Power BI has had this for a couple years in the form of "Q&A" https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-q-and-a https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se...
- Spooky23 9y agoYou don't shop for Excel, you shop for Office. The contracts around O365 are pretty onerous to get out of if you're an EA customer, and the process of going away is full of pitfalls and surprises. Google used to say that everyone who did an RFP chose Google Apps/GSuite. The problem is that nobody does that!