Microsoft's Power BI hits 5M subscribers, adds deeper Excel integration

[Live updates from the Microsoft Data Insights Summit] • Email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser]. [COMPUTERWORLD] Computerworld Data Management Mar 23, 2016 [Featured Image] [Microsoft's Power BI hits 5M subscribers, adds deeper Excel integration] Microsoft's cloud-based business intelligence service is celebrating a major user growth milestone with a handful of new features, including the ability to easily import data from an Excel spreadsheet and turn it into live-updating charts and graphs. 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