During the techdays 2010, Microsoft Europe (EMEA) has shown PowerPivot and BeGraphic inside Excel.
With PowerPivot + BeGraphic, Excel provides fast, powerful and visual in-memory business analysis – without the limitations, cost or complexity of traditional BI software solutions. This new self-service business intelligence is the easiest solution to let users make their reporting only knowing how to handle Excel.
By giving away asked visual representations, BeGraphic complete the new in-memory query maker. Contretely BeGraphic gives for free the following new data visualizations:
- interactive maps (with data-driven colors),
- gauges (fuel gages and odometers),
- infographics (as in modern newspapers).
Here is the video of the Microsoft presentation (with the last 15 minutes showing BeGraphic)