Blogs

Conditional formatting in dashboards and reports are key to guide users’ attention to specific performance areas. Compared to charts, tabular reports have higher information density which makes conditional formatting a lot more useful. The Power BI table and matrix visuals provide conditional formatting that can be applied in the form of font color, background color, […]

Migrating reports from Tableau to Power BI can get highly complicated depending on your report volume.   To ensure that your migration initiative goes successful, you need to consider the following factors before you commence the initiative:  Infrastructure: Understand the licensing landscape of Power BI as you have several options to choose from. Figure out which […]

If you think your Power BI report supports dynamic comments, think again. What are often implemented in Power BI reports as ‘Comments’ – either through PowerApps or third-party visuals – are simply filterable notes. But what is the difference? How does it matter? “Most implementations of ‘Comments’ in Power BI, including those in custom visuals, […]

Financial statements, sales forecasts, budget plans, annual reports, investor presentations, and many other forms of everyday reporting have one thing in common – they contain a lot of numeric data presented in tabular form. Presenting tabular data requires a slightly different approach than rendering a huge volume of text as seen in books and newspapers. […]

It is a common requirement across organizations to schedule Power BI reports on a periodic basis, where the report data (exported to Excel/PDF files) need to be sent by email to multiple recipients, or to shared folders such as OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Google Drive. We’ll quickly explore how you can set this capability […]

Today we are going to take a quick look at how to calculate Month over Month (MoM), Quarter over Quarter (QoQ) and Year over Year (YoY) growth in Power BI, just as easy as you can do in Excel. We have a monthly P&L dataset in Excel starting Jan 2019 going all the way till Dec […]

Let us explore how you can quickly forecast multiple items with seasonality in Power BI. Consider a scenario where your firm has accomplished the following in monthly sales in FY 2022 (totaling 1.16B in sales). Your company is targeting to achieve 1.2B in sales for the upcoming year 2023. They want you to put together […]

Let us consider a requirement where a blank table or a form in a Power BI report needs to be populated by multiple users in an organization. This table will have fields of various types - numeric values, text, date values, and more. Such a 'distributed data entry' requirement can have several practical applications. For […]

“As an Excel fan, I love the simplicity, flexibility and power of spreadsheets. I have everything under my control, and I can do what I want whenever I need to. I do like Power BI, but it has its own restrictions. For example, I cannot freely insert a row or edit data directly in the […]

Inforiver Charts is featured in the monthly Microsoft Power BI Blog of August 2022 and is chosen as the editor's pick for this quarter. Few excerpts from the blog : Inforiver charts is the fastest way explore, visualize and share performance management insights in Power BI. Using 40+ advanced visualization options, users can build data stories in minutes and […]