My company only installs Excel 2010 (and pays the $500 or so fee) on a machine if using one of my PowerPivot tools is considered mission critical for the owner! I think we have about 10 licenses so far.
By the way, I finally got to hire an analyst to help me, and he is blown away by PowerPivot. He used to swear by Access, and now he thinks it's obsolete for most things. He says that PowerPivot changes everything for him and his future. He's so excited to learn it!
Ola - 11 years ago
Similar like David. 40.000 employee company with a Win7+Office2007 company policy. I also run 2010 (approved exception). Due to that Excel 2010 crash all the time, I mainly use 2007. Excel 2010 probably crash a lot due to a company approved add-on from Oracle (to access Hyperion).
I made a bold move to download an Excel 2013 version a month ago - as a quick demo.
Which I quickly came to regret (+quickly uninstalled) as the Excel 2013 demo tried to upgrade (without my permission) the whole Office suite to 2013. After that I had to reinstall the Office 2007 suit + unstall/reinstall Office 2010 + PowerPivot. Still PowerPivot is constantly crashing since (probably) some Office 2013 components/installations seams to be irreversible. So I am now going to switch computer (with a new Windows 7 installation)
Anyway, it will probably take some years before we make the switch to 2013. The policy is to go for the version Office that is about to expire -- since it has the least IT-support problems.
Very boring, but frankly speaking, they are right.
jon C - 11 years ago
I run a machine with 16GB ram and a relatively fast processor very fast SSD. However 2013 feels slower than 2010 because of the way the screen is drawn with GPU rendering. Even with GPU rendering disabled it just feels slower navigating around dense models.
David Wetton - 11 years ago
My comment is similar to Hugo's, but more complex. The "standard" desktop in our organization is Vista/Office 2007 (all 30,000 of them). A decision was made (halfway through a refresh cycle) not to upgrade. But if a single user wants Windows 7 (which comes with Office 2010) they can make a request and it will be approved.
My employee has an arrangement with Microsoft to supply copies of Office to employees at a discounted rate for home use. That deal is based on the CURRENT version of Office, which is Office 2013.
So my desktop at work is Windows 7/Offfice 2010, but most have Vista/Office 2007. My home version is Windows 7 and 8/Office 2013. Not sure how you'd get that into your poll.
If I create EXCEL files with any of the 2010 features (Slicers or Sparklines) I can't share them internally, unless I post them to Sharepoint. Thankfully we did update to Sharepoint 2010.
I now have EXCEL 2013 (at home) and I've created a few PowerView maps that stunned clients. One client had just paid for a consultant to create a map that has just some colored markers on it. That project took 6 months, and a fair bit of money. I took that same data and in 30 minutes had a product that not only has a better map (100 times better imho) but also a full set of analytics. But I can't share that with anyone inside our organization. And of course of Sharepoint site wont' support those 2013 products. That leaves me with an awesome product my employer wants me to build at home but other than screenshots there is no way to share this with anyone inside my organization.
If anyone has similiar problems, or ideas on how to resolve them I'd love to hear from them. The issue is not about the value of EXCEL 2013 (which can't be disputed) but rather how you bring such products into the infrastructure environments we have to live in. I always love a challenge and this is definitely a doozie.
Hugo de Groot - 11 years ago
I use Excel 2013 on my own laptop at home. At work we still use 2010. Your poll probably should allow this answer.
Niek de Jong - 11 years ago
The 2013 powerpivot version is different from the 2010-version so all the excelsheets has to upgrade to 2013.
My company only installs Excel 2010 (and pays the $500 or so fee) on a machine if using one of my PowerPivot tools is considered mission critical for the owner! I think we have about 10 licenses so far.
By the way, I finally got to hire an analyst to help me, and he is blown away by PowerPivot. He used to swear by Access, and now he thinks it's obsolete for most things. He says that PowerPivot changes everything for him and his future. He's so excited to learn it!
Similar like David. 40.000 employee company with a Win7+Office2007 company policy. I also run 2010 (approved exception). Due to that Excel 2010 crash all the time, I mainly use 2007. Excel 2010 probably crash a lot due to a company approved add-on from Oracle (to access Hyperion).
I made a bold move to download an Excel 2013 version a month ago - as a quick demo.
Which I quickly came to regret (+quickly uninstalled) as the Excel 2013 demo tried to upgrade (without my permission) the whole Office suite to 2013. After that I had to reinstall the Office 2007 suit + unstall/reinstall Office 2010 + PowerPivot. Still PowerPivot is constantly crashing since (probably) some Office 2013 components/installations seams to be irreversible. So I am now going to switch computer (with a new Windows 7 installation)
Anyway, it will probably take some years before we make the switch to 2013. The policy is to go for the version Office that is about to expire -- since it has the least IT-support problems.
Very boring, but frankly speaking, they are right.
I run a machine with 16GB ram and a relatively fast processor very fast SSD. However 2013 feels slower than 2010 because of the way the screen is drawn with GPU rendering. Even with GPU rendering disabled it just feels slower navigating around dense models.
My comment is similar to Hugo's, but more complex. The "standard" desktop in our organization is Vista/Office 2007 (all 30,000 of them). A decision was made (halfway through a refresh cycle) not to upgrade. But if a single user wants Windows 7 (which comes with Office 2010) they can make a request and it will be approved.
My employee has an arrangement with Microsoft to supply copies of Office to employees at a discounted rate for home use. That deal is based on the CURRENT version of Office, which is Office 2013.
So my desktop at work is Windows 7/Offfice 2010, but most have Vista/Office 2007. My home version is Windows 7 and 8/Office 2013. Not sure how you'd get that into your poll.
If I create EXCEL files with any of the 2010 features (Slicers or Sparklines) I can't share them internally, unless I post them to Sharepoint. Thankfully we did update to Sharepoint 2010.
I now have EXCEL 2013 (at home) and I've created a few PowerView maps that stunned clients. One client had just paid for a consultant to create a map that has just some colored markers on it. That project took 6 months, and a fair bit of money. I took that same data and in 30 minutes had a product that not only has a better map (100 times better imho) but also a full set of analytics. But I can't share that with anyone inside our organization. And of course of Sharepoint site wont' support those 2013 products. That leaves me with an awesome product my employer wants me to build at home but other than screenshots there is no way to share this with anyone inside my organization.
If anyone has similiar problems, or ideas on how to resolve them I'd love to hear from them. The issue is not about the value of EXCEL 2013 (which can't be disputed) but rather how you bring such products into the infrastructure environments we have to live in. I always love a challenge and this is definitely a doozie.
I use Excel 2013 on my own laptop at home. At work we still use 2010. Your poll probably should allow this answer.
The 2013 powerpivot version is different from the 2010-version so all the excelsheets has to upgrade to 2013.