“The OLAP Surveys have shown that Excel is consistently the most popular front-end for most major OLAP servers,” said Nigel Pendse, primary author of The OLAP Report and The OLAP Survey. “Pentaho Spreadsheet Services will make it much easier for the many organizations which rely on Excel to take advantage of Mondrian’s capabilities. This is a sensible, pragmatic link between popular open source and proprietary software”