Microsoft has just announced the latest major update to data import and shaping functionality in Excel. Now, Excel’s data import functionality has been "enhanced" (i.e. rearranged) on the Ribbon so that end users may find it easier to look for the right tools. Just...

July saw in the usual myriad of new updates for Power BI: it's clear the Power BI Desktop train is not slowing down anytime soon. There were many updates to reporting and data connectivity.

The website www.excel.uservoice.com has been around a while now and it is clearly becoming more effective.  The idea was that regular Excel users could suggest improvements to the world’s second-best software for anything and, if you get enough votes in the bag,...

Microsoft's Eric Ligman, Director - Sales Excellence, has today announced their annual free Microsoft eBook giveaway.  This year's event has more freebies than in any previous year.  These books are on a range of Microsoft-related topics - and to our readers, the...

SumProduct is pleased to announce that our MD, Liam Bastick, has been re-awarded Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for a seventh successive time.  This award continues to recognise exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who...

Microsoft has issued a summary graphic showing what's available now and what's coming in the next Quarter in Power BI. Apparently, it was presented in one of the keynote sessions at the recent Data Insights Summit. We thought we would share it with you.

For those who weren’t aware, SumProduct's very own Tim Heng spent the last few days in Seattle at the Data Insights Summit hosted by Microsoft.  While that’s given us the opportunity to provide constructive feedback to Microsoft program managers, it’s also given...

June sees in quite a few new updates for Power BI: it's clear the momentum of recent major changes is far from over.  This month has many updates to reporting and accessibility features, with important improvements in data connectivity as well.

In summary, the...

Could it be Microsoft is starting to slow down?  For this month's updates for Get & Transform (Excel 2016) / Power Query (Excel 2010 and 2013), there's only three new updates.  Come on guys, are you really trying? 

This month, the updates focus on the following...