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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 […]

An effective supply chain management system ensures that products are delivered to customers on time and in the right condition. This results in higher customer satisfaction levels, which can lead to increased customer loyalty and repeat business.  A supply chain analysis dashboard can help improve customer satisfaction in several ways:   1. Real-time tracking of shipments: […]

In this blog post series, we will focus on Inforiver’s advanced Writeback feature for PowerBI, i.e., the ability to write data directly from your Power BI reports to databases. We will particularly focus on its integration with the entire Power Platform and Microsoft 365 Ecosystem. In order to demonstrate the seamless integration and automation possibilities, […]

We are pleased to announce that Inforiver charts is featured in the monthly Microsoft Power BI Blog of February 2023 and is now MS Power BI certified. Some highlights from the blog: Inforiver Charts 2.1, the fastest way to visualize, explore and tell data stories, is now Microsoft Power BI certified. The latest version 2.1 features significant […]

Check this out from Power BI Ideas: It'd be great to be able to freeze a left-hand column in a table so users can scroll and keep track of what row they're looking at.  Excel allows us to freeze columns (and rows) for easier navigation. See the example below.    This basic feature will be extremely […]

You have often seen category-based small multiple in Power BI. For example, here is a small multiple based on a category called Class, whose values are Deluxe, Economy and Regular. Note that all the three carts show the same measure Sales. This is essentially a category-based small multiple. Similarly, is it possible to create a measure-based […]

The typical star-schema data model consists of a set of dimension tables, and a single fact table. The fact table holds measures such as Sales, Quantity, Units and more. Dimensions such as time (e.g., Year, Quarter and Month) and other categories (e.g., regions, products, and sales reps) are used to slice and dice these measures.   […]

Related to Power BI Ideas - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=5f1ab43a-2137-4cec-a040-0d5ec3511e93  Often times in a Power BI matrix, we would like to apply conditional formatting to specific levels in a hierarchy.  Let us take the example below which features sales by Country and Product type in rows, and Segment in columns. We would like to conditionally format any products […]

A visual, including a table or a matrix, can typically accommodate multiple measures with some exceptions. Most visuals in tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik and Spotfire tend to treat all measures equally and are also based on a single measure. However, this leads to poorer user experience.  Consider the following example.  At ACME […]

Related to Power BI Ideas: Turn off Matrix Total - https://ideas.powerbi.com/ideas/idea/?ideaid=f40be08a-dbbd-441a-a197-8282a13ff1ca  When we use the native matrix visual in Power BI, the process to turn off the grand total is not straightforward and intuitive. We can only turn off the totals or subtotals at a specific level as shown below:  In Inforiver matrix visual, we can […]