On July 16, 2012, Microsoft made the Office 2013 Preview publicly available. As I worked through the install and saw the hype, I was really curious about some of the enhancements made to the business intelligence (BI) capabilities in Excel. Keep in mind that Microsoft has continually added BI components to the Excel product. Agree or disagree, this means that they have been positioning Excel as an “already installed” BI client for everyone.