Blogs

It is a common requirement across organizations to schedule Power BI reports on a periodic basis, where the report data (exported to Excel/PDF files) need to be sent by email to multiple recipients, or to shared folders such as OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Google Drive. We’ll quickly explore how you can set this capability […]

Today we are going to take a quick look at how to calculate Month over Month (MoM), Quarter over Quarter (QoQ) and Year over Year (YoY) growth in Power BI, just as easy as you can do in Excel. We have a monthly P&L dataset in Excel starting Jan 2019 going all the way till Dec […]

Let us explore how you can quickly forecast multiple items with seasonality in Power BI. Consider a scenario where your firm has accomplished the following in monthly sales in FY 2022 (totaling 1.16B in sales). Your company is targeting to achieve 1.2B in sales for the upcoming year 2023. They want you to put together […]

Let us consider a requirement where a blank table or a form in a Power BI report needs to be populated by multiple users in an organization. This table will have fields of various types - numeric values, text, date values, and more. Such a 'distributed data entry' requirement can have several practical applications. For […]

“As an Excel fan, I love the simplicity, flexibility and power of spreadsheets. I have everything under my control, and I can do what I want whenever I need to. I do like Power BI, but it has its own restrictions. For example, I cannot freely insert a row or edit data directly in the […]

Inforiver Charts is featured in the monthly Microsoft Power BI Blog of August 2022 and is chosen as the editor's pick for this quarter. Few excerpts from the blog : Inforiver charts is the fastest way explore, visualize and share performance management insights in Power BI. Using 40+ advanced visualization options, users can build data stories in minutes and […]

Microsoft recently introduced tenant level permissions for exporting data from custom visuals, and certain steps need to be performed by the Power BI service administrator to explicitly grant permissions to custom visuals at the tenant level. This allows organizations to vet the custom visual publisher and the nature of the export request.   To comply with […]

Performing a database writeback from Power BI can get highly technical and effort-intensive, requiring advance setup, configuration and coding. However, with Inforiver for Power BI, you can perform your first writeback in a matter of minutes without writing a single line of code. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can use Inforiver visual […]

Most of us would have encountered at least one Power BI report where we felt the need to enter or key in data manually inside the table or matrix. Unfortunately, the native Power BI table or matrix does not allow it. You will need to use Power Apps to enable it. Some third-party visuals allow […]

In the preceding blogs, we looked at why sales meetings are inefficient and how you can capture sales projections directly in your Power BI report. We then looked at how you can use Power BI reports to facilitate data-driven comments and conversations. In this blog, we will look at how data can be persisted to […]