Power BI | Actionable reporting - part 2 - chart visual

In today’s reality, creating reports that are just showing some numbers is not enough. Actionable Reporting is about getting insights fast: the faster you learn what’s happening with your performance, the faster you can decide what to do next.

When looking at a report visual, you should be able to tell right away if your performance:

1️⃣ is it good or bad
2️⃣ how good or how bad

How much time does it cost you to answer any of those questions by looking at a traditional report visual?

A frequently used visual in Power BI is the chart visual, which I regularly see in Power BI reports.

Look at the left visual. Is this actionable & understandable for the reader…….? Which month is performing the worst ……? It takes too much time to answer this question.

There is a better way to make reports interesting, meaningful, understandable and actionable.

Here is an example of a chart visual how this might look like in your report, a before vs after with the use of Zebra BI visuals and IBCS standards.

Why is the chart visual not actionable?

There is no content in the chart, the comparison as a variance is missing
Avoid external legends and remove gridlines
Redundancy in the title
Letters M denoting millions should be in the chart title or subtitle and not in the data labels

Why using Zebra BI?

Easy to use without having to create extra measures
Build reports 10x faster, get immediate visualization of your data
Automatic applying of IBCS standards
1. Increase in speed of analysis by +46%
2. Improvement in decision accuracy by +61%

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