Microsoft free Power BI is slated to get some serious mapping capabilities, as Microsoft yesterday announced ArcGIS for Power BI by Esri is on the way sometime this year.

Web maps output from ArcGIS Online can now be imported into Geocortex Viewer for HTML5 (GVH) exactly as they are, meaning that all smart mapping symbology, legends and other information will be ...

I can open up Excel, I can add a toolbar from ArcGIS Online that allows me to make maps of any of my Excel data, by taking a tabular data set and simply associating it with ArcGIS Online.