I have generated a report in Powerpivot for excel and want to share it with other members of my team. I do not want all of them to download and install Powerpivot add-on.
I found out that the report can be shared over SharePoint 2010. For this I need to get the Powerpivot add-on for SharePoint installed as part of SQL Server. Am I right or Is there any way I can get Powerpivot to work with SharePoint? Buying SQL server just for Powerpivot add-on is not worth it because we will not be using SQL server.
Is there any other way in which I can share the report?
I need to share my Powerpivot generated report with 5 users. One option is to have all of them install the free plug in and the $40 developer edition of SQL Server 2012 (on Amazon). You can just run that instance on your computer and have them connect to the data source via an odbc connector or Excel’s built in connection wizards. Another option, although not the best, is for everyone to run a cheap dev instance on SQL Server and for you to BCP in and out the data to share it via the network or memory sticks.
The cheapest and easiest thing would be to put the dataset in Azure or Azure Marketplace and have them query the data directly via the PowerPivot plugin.