You are already aware of Microsoft® Excel's® many analytical capabilities. But, as powerful as Excel is, there are some tasks it simply can't handle on its own. There may be times in your career where you need to perform complex data analysis on very large datasets from a wide variety of sources, which may include data in numerous database tables or from massive data feeds. When your analysis requires this sort of heavy lifting, Excel could use a bit of help. Fortunately, Excel includes a powerful add-in that can handle this very type of heavy lifting: Power Pivot. Taking the time to become familiar with this add-in, its capabilities, and how it works, will open an array of new opportunities in terms of high-level data analysis.