Power BI | Actionable reporting - part 9 – actionable visuals
Last year I started making a number of posts to share some tips and tricks about making actionable reports. Given the positive feedback I’ve received, I’ve decided to continue this series with actionable visuals.
In Power BI there a more than 40 visuals as a default available to use in your report page.
- How many of those do you use?
- How effective are they on a dashboard?
- How many DAX measures do you need for the visual?
- 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:
- is it good or bad
- how good or how bad
- why is it good (or bad)
How much time does it cost you to answer any of those questions by looking at a standard report visual?
Because Power BI standard visualization options are rather limited, it’s often difficult (and sometimes even impossible!) to visualize complex business data in a way that end-users would understand.
This week I saw a great post by Injae Park. He created a beautiful IBCS chart (column chart) in Power BI . But for this chart he needed 27 measures and a lot of tweaking. Not to mention the performance of this visuals. His post was also an inspiration for me to write this post. To create this kind of a chart in Zebra BI you only need 2 measures.
So perhaps you can reduce the number of visuals in Power BI from 40 to …….. 3 visuals (Zebra charts, tables & cards)?
Why using Zebra BI?
If you’re hoping to discover real insights, you need Zebra BI visuals. Zebra BI visuals were built to make reports and dashboards understandable and actionable.
- Easy to use without having to create extra measures
- Build reports 10x faster, get immediate visualization of your data
- Automatic applying of IBCS standards
- Increase in speed of analysis by +46%
- 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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