Blogs

When exporting data in a Power BI table or matrix report to Excel, you quickly encounter a few limitations.  To illustrate this, let us take this sample report built using the matrix visual available in Power BI. You get the following when you export the matrix to an Excel file.  You will notice the following […]

Perform formatted exports to PDF from your Power BI reports. 1. Export only select columns and measures from your tabular and matrix reports  Export the entire table/matrix or select specific columns using the ‘Selected Columns’ option in the toolbar. In the following example, only the last three quarters are exported to the PDF file. 2. […]

Typical reports consumed by enterprises contain table / matrix visuals that utilize a few columns (say 10), and a huge number of rows (say, 100, 500, or 2000). However, it is not uncommon for business users to utilize wide tables (say tables with 365 columns, tracking each day in a year) in spreadsheets and other […]

Star schema is one of the most common data warehousing techniques used to organize and structure data for efficient querying and analysis. Shown below in the image is a typical star schema (from a Power BI report), where we have Region, Product and Calendar dimension tables, and one fact/transaction table with measures (we have one […]

Funnel charts are typically used to visualize sales, marketing, or project pipelines. However, the typical funnel chart is underwhelming, offering limited insights given the amount of space it occupies (poor data-ink ratio). To cater to the needs of executives, Inforiver has introduced the Executive Funnel Chart a.k.a Horizontal Funnel Chart (as part of Inforiver Analytics+*). […]

Power BI currently has a limitation in dynamically updating column header names based on a filter. For example, I prefer to show values for a specific year (say, 2020), where the column name shows 2020 Sales. When I change the year filter to 2019, the column name must show 2019 Sales. There are several traditional […]

In today's data-driven world, marketing metrics have become essential for measuring success and guiding decision-making. From website traffic to social media engagement, there are a wide variety of metrics available to marketers. However, not all metrics are created equal. Creating an effective marketing dashboard with the right metrics can help you better engage with your […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Premium 2.0 release update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements to formulas & functions, header & footer, set version and UI/UX most anticipated by our Inforiver community! Key enhancements in this 2.0 release are listed below. Feel free to jump to any specific section! 1. Floating […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Enterprise 2.0 release update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements to data input, writeback, performance, security, and UI/UX. This release also introduces support for several key use cases such as scenarios, rolling forecast, rolling comments and delta writeback most anticipated by our Inforiver community! Key enhancements […]

The team behind Inforiver has been a strong proponent of design advancements for both report development and end-user consumption experiences across BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and Qlik. To this effect, the Inforiver delivered a compelling tool-bar-driven, no-code user experience in Power BI. We are glad to see Microsoft release on-object interaction capabilities […]