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Use Cases

Deliver xP&A / integrated planning applications in Power BI using Inforiver's no-code data app suite. Effortlessly allow users to enter forecasts & budgets, perform no-code writeback to online/cloud data lakes/warehouses and shared drives, edit master data with governance, and integrate plans seamlessly.

1. Writeback

The best no-code writeback in industry

With Inforiver’s user-friendly writeback capability users can post data and comments from the visual to databases such as Azure SQL, SQL Server, Snowflake, BigQuery, Oracle, and more. Users can also writeback to shared drives such as OneDrive and SharePoint and URL endpoints.

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2. Reporting

Enterprises looking to build reports expect flexibility in layout, presentation & formatting. What has been originally an IT-centric capability is now available through a low-code/no-code experience for business users.

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Paginated reporting

3. Data entry

Data entry

Distributed data entry where multiple users in an organization need to populate a report with values, dates, text etc. has several practical applications. Inforiver provides several data input types such as number, single/multi select, text, date and more.

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4. Budgeting

Inforiver provides an intuitive way of performing planning, budgeting & allocations through an editable table interface. You can create a new plan/budget based on an existing data series or from scratch (Zero-based Budgeting).

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Perform top-down budgeting with allocations and distributions

5. Forecasting 

Forecasting

With Inforiver, you can quickly create sales forecasts, business plans or financial budgets. Any value entered in a parent row gets distributed to its children. By default, it is distributed equally, but you can also opt to distribute based on other data (e.g., prior year actuals).​​ Values entered in child rows automatically roll up to the top.

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6. What-if simulations

Perform what-if analysis on the fly using a graphical slider to simulate and roll-up or spread-down changes in hierarchies. ​​Use in-cell editing that supports percentage calculations (e.g., +10%) as well as scaled values (e.g., -35m)​.
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Simulations

7. Commenting

Collaboration

Drive cell-level collaboration with other stakeholders through interactive commenting. Supports @ mentions, task assignment & tracking, email notifications and periodic digests.

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8. Report scheduling

Schedule reports and deliver formatted PDF or Excel file extracts through email or shared folders to other stakeholders. While this has been traditionally an IT-centric use case, Inforiver allows business users to schedule reports with ease.

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Scheduling

9. Excel-like pivot analysis

Data entry

Enrich your analysis & decision-making by applying pivot-table like capabilities inside Power BI. Inforiver offers expand/collapse enabled hierarchies, flexible excel-like layouts such as classic, stepped, outline and option to show measures on rows or columns using the pivot mode.

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10. Story telling & visualization

Tell compelling stories using 50+ charts, rich customizable themes, small multiples, data-level comments and more​. Enrich your narratives using dynamic titles, data tags and measure-driven data labels. Explain the context and provide insights using dynamic data-level comments and annotations.

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Data entry

Looking for a deep dive?

Explore our blogs on Writeback, Reporting, Data Entry, Budgeting, Forecasting, and more.

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Inforiver by Lumel

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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