1. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Powerpivot
Kate Lynch

2. What Do These Have in Common

4. Why Do People Even Need Access or PowerPivot?
Excel is useful to use for creating spreadsheets, formulas, and sorting through information.
When dealing with large amounts of information Excel is no longer the best resource to use.
Excel can only handle small data sets of information.

5. What is Microsoft Access?
Access is made up of seven major component
Tables, Relationships, Queries, Forms, Reports, Macros and Modules.

6. Tables and Relationships
Store data entered into the database.
If not entered properly, the database may not act correctly.
Relationships
Are the bonds you build between the tables
They join tables that have associated elements

7. Weakness of Access VLOOKUP Function
Needed to join tables together in Access.
PowerPivot allows the user to define a relationship between two or more items
Once a relationship is defined a user only has to relate the columns together in order obtain the information needed.

8. What is PowerPivot and how is it Different?
Built in to Excel
Process massive amounts of data in seconds
Load data sets from any source
Contains a powerful new formula language, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), which includes 60 new functions.

9. Access Compared to PowerPivot
Maximum Number of Rows
64,000
Maximum Storage Capability
2 GB
Number of Formulas 80
Maximum Number of Rows
Unlimited
Maximum Storage Capability
4 GB
Number of Formulas
160

10. Importing Data

11. Why PowerPivot is Better
It is not a new program that needs to be learned.
Uses PivotTables and Excel Functions.
Information can be organized and sorted faster.
Enhanced user features have been and will continue converting Access users over to PowerPivot.

12. Questions?

13. Sources