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Achieve 20x Productivity in P&L/Financial Statement Reporting in Power BI

It takes 5 hours for a typical Power BI expert to build a moderately-complex P&L statement in Power BI. For an average user with basic to intermediate understanding of DAX, it may take anywhere from 3 to 5 days. However, Inforiver can help you deliver financial statements 10x to 30x faster, and often in as much as 5 minutes. I know it sounds too good to be true – but let me show […]

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Expand/collapse column hierarchy in Power BI

Currently in a native Power BI matrix, you cannot expand or collapse columns freely as you can do with rows. In the example below, even though we have assigned region, sub-region & quarter to Columns, only the region shows up by default, and there is no way to expand a specific region to reveal the […]

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Group rows or columns in table / matrix reports in Power BI

Inforiver delivers a variety of spreadsheet-like capabilities that make it very appealing for Excel fans to embrace Power BI. A very popular feature of Excel that is missing in Power BI is the ability to group rows and columns. In Excel, this is accomplished using the Group (outline) settings property. Group rows in Power BI […]

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Manually enter data in a new column in Power BI table/matrix

While reporting data using a Power BI table/matrix, we often encounter scenarios where we need to insert a new column and enter data manually. With Inforiver, you can create a new column and enter data manually as you do with excel. This is especially useful when Watch the following video to learn more about manual data entry and how […]

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Insert row and manually enter data in Power BI matrix reports

Quite often we would like to insert a row in our table / matrix reports in Power BI and enter our own data. For example, a financial statement report connecting to a database query may be able to fetch revenue & expense metrics. But it might not retrieve the number of shares outstanding. Similarly, a […]

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How to Expand and Collapse Column Headers in Power BI

Power BI has been around since July 2015. Over the years, it has seen continuous improvement in both capability and functionality.  As I am sure you can appreciate, when developing new software from scratch, there is everything to do but limited time to do it.  The reality is that the work needs to be prioritized […]

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Calculate remaining budget in Power BI (without using DAX)

In Microsoft Power BI, you may often encounter incorrect total values while using calculated measures. Here is one such example. We have budget amounts for a few products (Budget Amount) and have incurred expenses against each (Posted Expenses). Our objective is to calculate remaining budget in a new column, and add them up. Let us […]

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Custom sort / reorder rows & columns in Power BI

Till date, the options to perform a custom sort or reorder of rows (or columns) in Power BI have been limited. This is the case with many other BI tools as well. One common Power BI workaround requires you to modify your data model. You will need to create a separate column that defines a […]

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Insert calculated measure or column in Power BI

With Inforiver, it is possible to insert a new calculated row, column or a measure at the visual-level in your Power BI table / matrix style reports, without writing DAX. The rows, measures and columns so created can also be formatted, rearranged, and utilized for downstream calculations. Let us take this example, where we have sales data […]

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6 Reasons why we decided to build Inforiver for Microsoft Power BI

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. […]

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Inforiver helps enterprises consolidate planning, reporting & analytics on a single platform (Power BI). The no-code, self-service award-winning platform has been recognized as the industry’s best and is adopted by many Fortune 100 firms.

Inforiver is a product of Lumel, the #1 Power BI AppSource Partner. The firm serves over 3,000 customers worldwide through its portfolio of products offered under the brands Inforiver, EDITable, ValQ, and xViz.

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