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Summary: Inforiver offers the flexibility to deliver tabular reports in multiple layouts in Power BI, including the Pivot Table layout in Excel that many users are familiar with.   We often prefer tabular reports over charts in Power BI when  (a) we have a need to display multiple records, or  (b) when we have a larger […]

We are ecstatic to announce the flagship 3.0. release for Inforiver Analytics+! The re-architected version of Inforiver Analytics+ comes packaged with core enhancements across Data Management, Trellis, UI/UX, Top N, and various other features to style and elevate your reports.  We have more exciting things coming soon with Inforiver Analytics+ and you can read our […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Enterprise 2.4 release update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements to scenarios, forecasting and writeback- most anticipated by our Inforiver community!     Key enhancements in this 2.4 release are listed below. Feel free to jump to any specific section!   1. Advancements to the Scenario creation  1.1. Measure […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Premium 2.4 release update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements to forecasting, formulas & functions, headers and UI/UX - most anticipated by our Inforiver community!    Key enhancements in this 2.4 release are listed below. Feel free to jump to any specific section!   1. New unified interface […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Premium 2.3 release update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements to forecasting, formulas & functions, headers and UI/UX - most anticipated by our Inforiver community! Key enhancements in this 2.3 release are listed below. Feel free to jump to any specific section! 1. Forecasting period enhancements […]

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+*). […]