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by Psyladine 1592 days ago
Just options. VBA is there as well. Excel's virtue is not specializing in any specific task, but being versatile enough to express a multitude of business solutions. 'Excel is my database' wasn't always a punchline.

That's more than an equally domain specific process like Qlik, and more than a specific vendor tool like tableau. And anyway if PowerBI didn't have a pain point it wouldn't be a MS product.