Power BI | Actionable reporting - part 4 - donut visual by Aegon

Do you use donut visuals in your report? How effective are they on a dashboard? Are they easy to read and to understand for the viewer?

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 donut visual. Even a very big company as Aegon is using a donut visual in their quarterly presentation.

Look at the left visual from the Aegon quarterly report. Is this actionable & understandable for the reader…….?

Why is the donut visual not actionable?

  1. The data labels are not connected to the legends, it’s not easy to see which colors belong to the regions.
  2. There is no context, they don’t display the variances, no comparison with last year?
  3. What is exactly the sorting order of the visual?
  4. Too little information

There is a better way to make reports interesting, meaningful, understandable and actionable with the use of a different visual.

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

Again, the comparison to create some context is actually key here. We want to show the absolute variance by region and sort the amounts by actuals.

Why using Zebra BI?

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

Need help with transforming your data into actionable reports? As an official Zebra BI partner we can help you with this.

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