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Table vs Matrix Visuals: Key Differences? Table and matrix visuals differ from your typical chart & graphs. Unlike other visualizations, they represent data closest to its original form. They feature values in numeric form rather than focusing upon visual qualities. Generally, tables and matrices are very commonly used to display dense value structures in static […]

Updated - June 01, 2022 For the past several months, we had the opportunity to work closely with Inforiver customers and prospects. Most of our early adopter customers have modernized their reporting capabilities and are excited about delivering Inforiver’s innovative use cases like commenting, forecasting, and write-back to their business users. Several of them suggested […]

Welcome to the Inforiver March 2022 update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements (for all the editions) most anticipated by our Inforiver community!   Here is a video summarizing the key updates.  New Features & Enhancements  Audit Log  Auto Fit  Blend Measure  Bullet Chart  New Charts  Stacked Bar  New Formula Bar   […]

A Brief History of Visualizations and Visual Story Telling The origin of data-driven visualizations and story-telling can be traced back to the beginning of mankind. The early humans sculpted visuals of animals, weapons, and the position of stars on the walls of caves. The Turin Papyrus Map, dated 1150 BC, is the oldest surviving visualization. […]

Inforiver's Premium edition is featured in the monthly Microsoft Power BI Blog of February 2022 and the Professional Edition is chosen as the editor's pick for this quarter. Few excerpts from the blog : Inforiver delivers the fastest way to build reports in Power BI. The Inforiver premium edition includes everything available in Standard and Professional editions (such as number […]

Inforiver launched the Premium Edition in Microsoft Appsource. Following are the excerpts from the Power BI Blog. Leading BI & Analytics software vendors have leveraged custom visuals as a means to extend the capabilities of their tools and empower third party vendors to address functionality gaps and customer needs. Specifically, Microsoft Power BI has had […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 the measure that we need is not already present in the data model, […]