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Weekly sales meetings are common a occurrence across organizations. A Sales Manager relies on periodic meetings to keep a pulse on the team’s performance and validates sales pipeline to ensure that the team is on track to meet the objectives. However, most sales meetings today are not run efficiently. Let us explore this with an […]

A standard option to write back data from a Power BI report to a database is by integrating Power Apps with Power BI. What is Power Apps? Power Apps is a service that helps users build and use apps that connect to business data. How does writeback happen using Power BI + Power Apps? You […]

Almost all enterprise visualization software (including Power BI, Tableau, Spotfire, Qlik etc.,) do NOT provide database writeback as a capability out-of-the-box. One reason for this can be attributed to their origins in the BI platform ecosystem. It mainly consists of Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) systems that are read-optimized. Think of your enterprise data warehouse that […]

In one of our previous posts titled The Business Case for Top N + Others, we briefly looked into the following: Top N Analysis and its significance Preferred format for reporting: Top N + Others with grand total Key variants of Top N* Nested Top N* Top & Bottom N combinations* N with numeric & […]

In business scenarios, it is very common for decision-makers to examine the following: Customers contributing to the most revenue Spend Categories that consume most of the budget Key vendors from whom we procure the most … and more. This type of analysis is also in line with the Pareto principle, which states that 80% of […]

Everyday business decision-making involves stakeholders asking a lot of ‘what-if’ questions. For example, what if oil prices go up to a certain level? What if our suppliers increase their costs by 4%? What if our attrition increases by more than the permissible limit? However, typical business intelligence and reporting tools fail to provide this very […]

Table vs Matrix Visuals: Key Differences? Table and matrix visuals differ from your typical chart & graphs. Unlike other visualizations, they represent data closest to its original form. They feature values in numeric form rather than focusing upon visual qualities. Generally, tables and matrices are very commonly used to display dense value structures in static […]

Updated - June 01, 2022 For the past several months, we had the opportunity to work closely with Inforiver customers and prospects. Most of our early adopter customers have modernized their reporting capabilities and are excited about delivering Inforiver’s innovative use cases like commenting, forecasting, and write-back to their business users. Several of them suggested […]

Welcome to the Inforiver March 2022 update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements (for all the editions) most anticipated by our Inforiver community!   Here is a video summarizing the key updates.  New Features & Enhancements  Audit Log  Auto Fit  Blend Measure  Bullet Chart  New Charts  Stacked Bar  New Formula Bar   […]

A Brief History of Visualizations and Visual Story Telling The origin of data-driven visualizations and story-telling can be traced back to the beginning of mankind. The early humans sculpted visuals of animals, weapons, and the position of stars on the walls of caves. The Turin Papyrus Map, dated 1150 BC, is the oldest surviving visualization. […]