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Inforiver is an idea that has been a long time in the making. While its look-and-feel draws comparison to Power BI table/matrix visuals, it is in reality a complete analytics platform framework that supports a wide variety of use cases. Without getting into technical details, I'll quickly cover six perspectives that guided us to building this product. 1. […]

When dealing with Power BI table/matrix reports, there might be occasions where we prefer to apply customized measure aggregations in a particular report—such as calculating the average quantity sold at the company level —rather than relying on the default aggregation specified in the data model, like the sum of quantity sold.  Often, altering the aggregation […]

Inforiver delivers a powerful 'Manage Columns' feature that helps you show/hide columns, reorder measures, resize columns by setting default column widths and apply custom aggregations in your Power BI table / matrix reports. To access this feature, click on the 'Manage Columns' dropdown from the top of the ribbon menu. Using the check boxes on […]

Learn how you can deliver a P&L, financial, or an income statement, in less than five minutes in Power BI, without using DAX.

Anyone who has attempted building P&L / income / financial reporting statements in Power BI knows how time-consuming the task can be. The reason is that the table or matrix visuals are designed to perform slice & dice analysis on the data, and not to deliver formatted statements. (This is not only the case with […]

Inforiver recently launched its Professional Edition in Microsoft App Source. Following are the excerpts from the Power BI Monthly Blog (Oct 21). Inforiver Professional Edition Inforiver is the fastest way to build reports in Power BI. You can rapidly deliver complex financial statements, P&L reports, management, and variance reports with the help of our built-in visual […]

Inforiver, offering the fastest way to build Power BI table / matrix reports, is now certified by International Business Communication Standards (IBCS). The product delivers the simplicity, flexibility and power of Excel spreadsheets right within Microsoft Power BI. It supports a wide variety of use cases including reporting, visualizations, analysis, audit, forecasting & simulations, scheduling, […]

Be it a normal table or a hierarchical matrix style report in Power BI, Inforiver allows you to seamlessly manage subtotals and grand totals in a couple of clicks. Let us take the case of the following dataset, with hierarchies across both rows & columns. Note that (a) the row subtotals (Beverages & Water) are […]

Inforiver for Power BI comes prepackaged with intelligent number formatting & scaling recognition capabilities that help display data in a perceptive manner in your table / matrix style reports right out of the box. The in-built intelligence does the hard work so that you do not have to. Let us take a sample dataset as […]

Inforiver provides one of the fastest ways to build reports in Power BI, and a key ingredient that enables this is the availability of one-click business templates. Let us take a quick look at how to use them. Launch Inforiver in full screen mode. You will be shown two options – 'Build report manually' and […]