Results:

The Inforiver ecosystem is continuously evolving, driven by expert feedback from our customers, contributions from the Inforiver community, and innovations led by Inforiver developers. As we step into the new year, let’s reprise the top features we released in 2023.  1. Performance boost with on-load scripts  Inforiver’s new on-load scripting feature enables you to list […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Enterprise 2.6.5 release update!    The December release ships with exciting new features like snapshot comparison and scheduling Analytics+ visuals using Inforiver Scheduler. We also have enhancements across writeback, forecasting, and commenting - most anticipated by the Inforiver user community!  Key enhancements in this release are listed below. Feel free to use […]

Allocating budgets is a common technique that simplifies the approach to strategic and financial planning. Allocations help organizations plan at a macro level and distribute available budgets and resources across departments, locations, plants, products, teams, and even time. Let us explore this with an example. You have a budget of $2M for hiring in 2024. […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Enterprise 2.6 release update!   We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements most anticipated by Inforiver user community – including writeback, forecasting, data input, scenarios, and collaboration!     Key enhancements in this release are listed below. Feel free to use the shortcuts to jump to any specific section!  1. […]

Almost every professional working in sales, operations, or finance has used a monthly tracker in Excel with categories in rows and months or weeks across columns. Most times, this template is used to compare actual performance to projections.   We are going to see how you can create such a template in Power BI, with the […]

You have a sales/forecast report in Power BI, and your manager asks you to add forecasts for future periods. You suddenly realize that these periods are not yet available in your data model, which sources its data from a source like SQL Server or Azure. How do you handle this?  Traditionally, you would reach out […]

In an earlier column, we explored how to create a forecast using a blank template in Power BI. Today we will explore creating a forecast based on already existing data. This can be helpful in several scenarios.  (a) You can create a forecast based on actual performance (from past periods).  (b) You can create a […]

A common requirement for organizations is to forecast using a blank template in Power BI, just as you would do with Microsoft Excel. Data in this case may be entered by a single individual or by many individuals across the organization.  Let us explore how you can set this up quickly in Power BI using […]

Last year, Microsoft introduced the ability for businesses to directly procure, license and administer AppSource visuals through Microsoft platforms. With the ease of directly purchasing with Microsoft and with proper license management that came with it - we were hoping to drive the adoption of our popular Inforiver premium matrix. But just as with every […]

We often hear about budgets, plans and forecasts, and may have wondered – how are they different? Well, let’s take a quick look. Budget vs. Forecast: A quick definition A budget is a goal (or an expectation) set by a business for an upcoming financial cycle. For example, ACME Corp finalized its annual budget for […]