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Inforiver for Enterprises – Help Center

Welcome to Inforiver by Lumel. 

Get the answers you need to make informed decisions about modern enterprise planning with Inforiver Writeback Matrix. Organized by toolbar sections, find key insights to help evaluate and choose the right solutions for better strategic decisions.

1. About Inforiver by Lumel

Inforiver by Lumel is an end-to-end enterprise planning and performance management (EPM) suite that enables you to plan right on top of Power BI and run your semantic models on top of other Data Platforms (Snowflake, DataBricks, Big Query, Redshift, Azure SQL, SQL Server, etc). 
 
It helps enterprises retire legacy tools and platforms and consolidate planning, master data, reporting, and visualization needs in one platform (Power BI). 

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Note that :

  • Inforiver is built for business users with no coding experience 
  • Inforiver helps you leverage your existing data platform investments (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks), instead of operating in a silo (like other cloud-based planning software) 
  • Inforiver avoids the complexity of having to replicate and move data between reporting and planning systems, maximizing time-to-value (TTV) and eliminating latencies. 

Inforiver by Lumel was voted as the Best New Vendor for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) in 2024 with a 4.86/5 user rating. Learn more about this study here. 

2. Microsoft & Lumel Strategic Partnership Announcement

Microsoft recently announced a shared vision and collaboration with Lumel (Inforiver). Read the announcement here.
Lumel was featured as a strategic partner for Fabric workloads in the Microsoft Build event in 2024.
Fabric workloads in Microsoft Build event in 2024

3. Sample use case videos

Here is a sample list of capabilities/use cases supported by Inforiver: 

4. How is Inforiver different from other EPM offerings?

Inforiver by Lumel offers you the following advantages when compared to other EPM solutions in the market. 

  1. Inforiver is the only planning/EPM offering that natively integrates with your data platform (data warehouse / lakehouse). In other words, you do not have to replicate or migrate your performance data to your planning system. 
  2. Inforiver offers 100% coverage for all planning methods (Top-Down, Bottom Up, Scenario, Driver, Multi-Dimensional, Connected..)  
  3. Inforiver offers 100% coverage for all planning use cases (S&OP, Revenue, COGS, Workforce planning…)  
  4. Inforiver is the only planning / EPM offering that allows you to publish/write back plan data anywhere. Other EPM platforms operate in silos where you cannot write back plan data from the application layer to external destinations. 
  5. Other EPM offerings on the market are primarily geared towards structured planning (with well-defined planning processes for recurring needs). A good example is the annual budgeting process. However, other solutions provide little support ad-hoc planning requirements, where stakeholders need quick answers to non-recurring questions. Inforiver by Lumel supports both structured and ad-hoc planning needs due to its no-code self-service architecture. 
4. How-is-Inforiver-different-from-other-EPM-offerings?

5. Functional Architecture

Inforiver by Lumel leverages a modular cloud architecture that decouples the front-end (Application), middleware (Compute) and data store (Storage). 

  • The front end provides intuitive and engaging user experiences that make it easy for business users to drive planning and performance management use cases. 
  • The middleware delivers a range of services, and it can be hosted in any hyper scaler such as Azure or AWS with cloud-native architecture. Additional details on hosting the middleware are provided in Section #6 
  • The data store forms the final layer of the architecture. Inforiver can write back to any destination of your choice, and this promotes integration and interoperability of data. 

A major benefit of this modular architecture is that changes to one layer need not affect other layers. For example, you may store your data on Azure SQL and migrate it to Snowflake, Data Bricks, or Fabric in the future. Your decision to shift your data store will insulated your planning applications (front-end) and services (middleware). 

Functional Architecture

6. Hosting Options – SaaS and On-Premise

Inforiver Writeback Matrix comes in two editions – SaaS and On-Premise. 

The SaaS edition is a multi-tenant option, hosted and managed by Inforiver in Azure (US region). This is ideal for small businesses and for organizations looking to roll out Inforiver to a handful of users.  

The On-Premise edition gives you complete control of the infrastructure as it is deployed in your Azure or AWS tenant. This option addresses any concerns from your IT/IS with regard to data security, data residency and data privacy as it operates fully within your private network. This is recommended for medium & large organizations. 

Learn more about hosting options here.

7. Trial Options – Private tenant, SaaS and Guest User

You can try Inforiver Writeback Matrix out using one of the three options. Note that each method has its own benefit. 

  • Private Tenant trial – Try Inforiver in your environment, with no restrictions. Models and PoCs built using this trial can be seamlessly ported to production once you decide to purchase a subscription. 
  • SaaS trial – Try Inforiver on Lumel’s Azure tenant, using your Microsoft 365 login & Power BI tenant. This offers you the most flexibility & velocity while building PoCs using your data. 
  • Guest user trial – Try Inforiver on our Azure tenant using our guest logins. This is the fastest way to try out Inforiver, as you do not need to involve your IT team in the process. 

Visit our trial options page to learn more. 

8. Azure/AWS Private Tenant Network Architecture

The following is the architecture in case you decide to host Inforiver middleware (refer section #5) in your private tenant on Azure.
Azure/AWS Private Tenant Network Architecture
The following is the architecture in case you decide to host Inforiver middleware in your private tenant on AWS.
Inforiver On-prem Network Architecture AWS

Inforiver visuals are certified by Microsoft. In addition, the product enables three levels of security inside your Power BI applications: 

  • Security provided by your tenant / Power BI at the workspace and data levels (including RLS or row-level security) 
  • Admin-level security : e.g., administrators can decide whether Inforiver users can write to Snowflake 
  • Report-level security : e.g., report creators can authorize specific users to perform specific actions in the report, such as who can comment, enter data, create scenarios, etc. 

Visit our security and governance page to learn more about how Inforiver delivers admin-level and report-level security. 

10. Azure deployment documentation

The Azure deployment documentation is available here. 

11. Case-Studies

Other resources: 

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Inforiver helps enterprises consolidate planning, reporting & analytics on a single platform (Power BI). The no-code, self-service award-winning platform has been recognized as the industry’s best and is adopted by many Fortune 100 firms.

Inforiver is a product of Lumel, the #1 Power BI AppSource Partner. The firm serves over 3,000 customers worldwide through its portfolio of products offered under the brands Inforiver, EDITable, ValQ, and xViz.

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