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Grizman
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Is there an alternative to Microsoft Excel PowerPivot?

Can you help me recommended alternative tool to Power PIvot?

Main requirement: this tool must be absolutely free on a permanent basis

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qliksense is free, but i am not sure what is limited in the free tool, tableau public is also free, power bi is free if you dont share, or if you only want to use the desktop





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KHorseman
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Power Pivot is a free addon to Excel. But Excel isn't free, so "absolutely free"? Nope. I don't think there is one. Certainly no free alternative to Power BI.





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You don't undestand me!

PowerPivot is free add-in. I need some self-service BI tool.

Alternative can be QlickView, Pentaho, Tableu but all they need buy licensing. 

I don't think there is a totally free self service BI tool. Some might offer a very limited free version but nothing with the full set of features.





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For example, can you write some names tool with limited functions?

qliksense is free, but i am not sure what is limited in the free tool, tableau public is also free, power bi is free if you dont share, or if you only want to use the desktop





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Thanks a lot!

I have no idea. I just know that Power BI has a free version that doesn't allow you to share dashboards with other users and only allows certain types of data connections. I assume the others you listed have a similar arrangement.





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Power BI don't fit my requirement because it's not OLAP tool.

Too bad!

Excel itself is a whole toolbox of OLAP tools.  I have been using Excel/VBA for OLAP ever since 1994 when VBA came out!

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