For business users, spreadsheet programs are very popular for analyzing data. The DB2 OLAP Starter Kit includes add-on programs for the two most popular spreadsheet programs, Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3. These programs let you display and examine multidimensional databases with ease. You can change how information is presented by pivoting columns and rows (changing rows to columns or columns to rows). You can also rearrange columns and rows and suppress data. The spreadsheet programs let you manipulate the data until you get the precise answer that you are looking for.