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Re:Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push by r00fus on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @07:43PM (#8039819)
It's quite easy to export moderately sized data sets to xlsx.

The trick is to allow the analysis to happen within the app, and not as vlookups and pivot tables in Excel (as the user is more comfortable with).

Ultimately, this is Microsoft's failing as Excel should have become a cloud/server-powered think-desktop/tablet app a long time ago with versioning and multi-user support. Sure that existed back in the late 90s with ODBC and data links, but it was too fragile and was not significantly improved in the decade and a half since.

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Re:Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push by mistermann on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @08:51AM (#8041719)
Some of the capabilities they have now with PowerView/PowerPivot/Hadoop are technically impressive.

http://edu-kinect.com/blog/2014/06/23/microsoft-brings-hadoo...

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