How Can a Finance Expert or Excel Consultant Help Your Business? Power Pivot is expressed by Microsoft using DAX (Data Analysis Expressions), which is a collection of functions, operators, and constants usable in a formula or expression to calculate/return one or more values.Power Pivot was created in direct response to the big data demands of contemporary business intelligence needs, which prior generations of Excel-given their 1,048,576 row limit or processing speed shortcomings-struggled to cope with.