About the Author

Rob Collie, one of the founding engineers behind Power Pivot during his 14-year career at Microsoft and creator of the world's first Power Pivot service, is one of the foremost authorities on self-service business intelligence and next-generation spreadsheet technology. In 2010, he realised that Power Pivot was not "just another tech" and that its power resided not in the software itself, but in the unique way it empowers human beings. Inspired, he left Microsoft and founded a consulting and training company, P3Adaptive.com to make that human empowerment his full-time mission. Avichal Singh built a successful Power Pivot BI platform during his tenure at Microsoft. Avichal has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Washington and spend 10+ years as a business analyst at Microsoft.