Excel-The Business Intelligence Toolkit: Pivot Tables Part 1

Key Take-Away:

This training enables anyone who is familiar with the basics of pivot tables to take their skills and knowledge to the next level.

Overview:
Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel’s data analysis and Business Intelligence (BI) armory.

With just a few clicks of the mouse (and no complicated formulas!), you can quickly and easily build the reports, dashboards, and charts that help you to summarize, analyze, interpret and understand your data which in turn helps you to spot trends and get answers to the important questions on which you base your key business decisions.

Pivot Tables have a reputation for being complicated and scary but by attending this training, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use and create them.

Areas Covered in the Session:
•  Producing a Difference report (month-on-month or year-on-year)
•  Producing Running Totals and Top 10 reports
•  Use Pivot Tables to produce a “unique count” report
•  Use Pivot Tables to produce time-based reports (quarterly, monthly etc)
•  Create additional columns in a Pivot Tables using formulas
•  Combine row items in a Pivot Tables using formulas
•  GETPIVOTDATA – What is it? When to use it and when to avoid it
•  Using Slicers to Slice, Dice and Filter your data