Excel Product Team FY20 Goals

Ghazanfar Abidi there are definitely different levels of “app from Excel” scenarios. We have done a few entry level things around the data collection piece of those with the Forms integration in Excel online (where form submissions flow right into the spreadsheet), and mobile card view for easier table use on a small screen. There’s much more we’ll do here over time, as Excel is such a great solution building tool. 

Power Apps are fantastic and we partner closely with that org on how to better integrate Power Apps and Power Automate with Excel. 

We also see a number of 3rd party tools that create apps from spreadsheets (mobile apps are the common one you see now). 

Our REST APIs let developers build their own custom solutions over a spreadsheet so that non devs can build out the logic/rules/schema in Excel underneath, and the custom app them sits over the top of that. 

excelpbi, I hear you. PowerBI is great, and the partnership between Excel and PowerBI is critical. We see that Excel users who start using PBI often become even more intense Excel users as well. The two apps help solve related but different problems for folks. We’ll continue to push further in the Excel and PBI integrations as you’ll see in some of the MBAS announcements next week.