Microsoft is about to release Project Gemini free of charge as an add-in on top of Microsoft Excel , Gemini is a tool that can connect on most of the data sources + reports and data feeds to allow you to analyze numerous amount of data in a matter of seconds, check more about this nice product on the Gemini Team's Official Blog here. There is another extension to Project Gemini which is the Self Data Management which is installed on top Share point 2010 as another add-in free of charge too, check more about it here Donald Farmer's Collection of Links regarding Project Gemini here