The Excel Data Model Is Obsolete

The Excel Data Model addresses only a small zone within a much larger scalability challenge. But a new Excel methodology lets you report and analyze it all.

I’ll be blunt. I’ve always disliked Excel’s Data Model.

Strategically, it’s always led me down dead-end streets. Tactically, it’s always been a pain to use. Thankfully, it’s now obsolete.

I gave it one last chance recently, when I was working with a two-gigabyte file of the financial data for public companies. The file contains quarterly, annual, and roll…