Where is x64 Excel 2010 Data Mining Add-in?

Mark Tabladillo delivered a great presentation about using Excel for data mining at our last Atlanta BI SIG meeting. The lack of an Excel 2010 x64 DM add-in came up. There was a question from the audience whether Microsoft has abandoned DM technology since it stopped enhancing it. A concern was also raised that Microsoft might have also neglected the corporate BI vision in favor of self-service BI.

That’s definitely not the case. I managed to get a clarification from the Microsoft Analysis Services team that Corporate BI will be a major focus in “Denali”, which is the code name for the next version of SQL Server – version 11. As far as the long-overdue x64 DM add-in for Excel, Microsoft is working on it and it will be delivered eventually. Meanwhile, the 2007 add-in works with the x32 version of Excel 2010.

For those of you going to SQL PASS (unfortunately, I won’t be one of them), Microsoft will announce important news about Denali and hopefully give a sneak preview about the cool BI stuff that is coming up.