Spreadsheet jockeys will be able to import machine learning models to analyze data within Excel, and the program will automatically recognize items such as company names and locations, and pull in additional data. The models could predict future sales numbers given different scenarios, or stand in for any number of software-as-a-service analytics tools that have become popular in sales and marketing.

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This was originally published from: https://qz.com/1087888/microsoft-is-packing-artificial-intelligence-into-excel-for-anyone-to-use/ on September 26, 2017 10:08 pm