Blogs

Microsoft recently introduced tenant level permissions for exporting data from custom visuals, and certain steps need to be performed by the Power BI service administrator to explicitly grant permissions to custom visuals at the tenant level. This allows organizations to vet the custom visual publisher and the nature of the export request.   To comply with […]

Performing a database writeback from Power BI can get highly technical and effort-intensive, requiring advance setup, configuration and coding. However, with Inforiver for Power BI, you can perform your first writeback in a matter of minutes without writing a single line of code. In this tutorial, we will explore how you can use Inforiver visual […]

Most of us would have encountered at least one Power BI report where we felt the need to enter or key in data manually inside the table or matrix. Unfortunately, the native Power BI table or matrix does not allow it. You will need to use Power Apps to enable it. Some third-party visuals allow […]

In the preceding blogs, we looked at why sales meetings are inefficient and how you can capture sales projections directly in your Power BI report. We then looked at how you can use Power BI reports to facilitate data-driven comments and conversations. In this blog, we will look at how data can be persisted to […]

Like pretty much any piece of software, Power BI has multiple ways to solve any given problem. In this article today, I'm going to explain why you might want to use the Inforiver custom visual instead of using the standard Analyse in Excel capability that comes with Power BI. Why Does Analyze in Excel Even […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Enterprise July 2022 update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements most anticipated by our Inforiver community! Key enhancements in this 1.6 release are listed below. Feel free to jump to any specific section for more details. Data Input Writeback Admin Scheduler Data Input 1. Data input […]

Welcome to the Inforiver Matrix July 2022 update. We are thrilled to announce several new features and key enhancements (for all the editions) most anticipated by our Inforiver community!    Note: Version 1.6 will be released on the website this Sunday, 24th July so as to minimize the impact of downtime. Key enhancements in this 1.6 […]

Historically, the BI add-on solutions such as custom visuals have been very challenging to monetize for Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partners across all BI platforms. But Microsoft’s announcement at the Inspire conference today on enabling direct transactability and license management ushers in a new golden era for everyone – ISV partners, Customers and Microsoft. With […]

In the preceding blogs, we looked at why sales meetings are inefficient and how you can enter and edit sales forecasts in a Power BI report. Let us now look at how you can add data-level comments and facilitate conversations with your peers directly from within your Power BI report. We will use the same […]

You have probably explored using Microsoft Power Apps for data writeback from a Power BI report. In one of our previous posts, we learnt how this approach is a bit harder than it should be for business users, and yet more restrictive for advanced use cases. Since BI platforms & tools are optimized for reading […]