Not long ago, tech leaders were lying awake in the small hours of the night fretting about missing the big data revolution. CIOs and CTOs rushed to hire data scientists, build data lakes, buy new ...

Internal data is often the first place that companies look when they start to think about analytics and insights. But they shouldn’t overlook the wealth of value that can be gained from mining ...

Using the External Data Connection feature in Excel, you can acquire information from external sources, such as Access and SQL Server. The data remains stored at its original source, but the data ...

If the numbers you need to crunch come from the Web, then you’ll need an efficient way to get it into Microsoft Excel. There are several ways you can do this, and one method even allows for automatic ...

Over the past year or so, it’s been hard to escape the impression that AI is becoming a massive disruptive force. AI, of course, is only as good as its data, and thus far the data sources undergirding ...

In the last couple of years, a lot of companies have started using BCS (Business Connectivity Services) to integrate data from external data sources into SharePoint. It was initially available with ...

Power Query in Excel is a powerful tool designed to streamline the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming external data. It enables you to prepare datasets for analysis efficiently, saving ...

Spreadsheets contain many tools for analyzing and manipulating data. The trouble is much of the data CPAs need to analyze resides in company databases or on the Internet. So, after finding the ...