Welcome to the Inforiver Enterprise release updates!  In this interim version 2.8.5, we introduce several enhancements in the data input section, primarily to the filter-based dropdown list, and performance optimizations for writebacks. We have also restructured a few menu items in the admin console for easier navigation. It gives us immense pleasure to consistently provide the updates and improvements you request. Thank you for choosing Inforiver! The release notes are organized into toolbar segments, providing direct access to each feature. Please feel free to jump straight to the secti ..read more

The March 2024 – 3.6 release for Analytics+ is a small yet impactful release that introduces two important features: visualizing variances with integrated column charts for tables and creating visual-level rows with the calculated row feature.   Let’s dive in!   1. Integrated column charts as inline charts for tables  Since tabular data has higher information density, adding visualizations enable report users to grasp insights quickly. If your tables have two measures, you can visualize variances by selecting the AC measure and inserting an integrated column chart ..read more

Are you struggling to assign custom visual licenses in Power BI? Not to worry; we are here to help.   Some things first –   If the subscription was purchased by a user in your organization and not the admin, only the purchaser can assign the licenses.   If the tenant admin owns the licenses (Org licenses), Global Admin, License Admin, or User Admin can manage the licenses.  You can assign or unassign user licenses in the Microsoft 365 admin center on the Licenses page. Go to admin.microsoft.com -> Billing -> License. Select the visual for which you ..read more

Welcome to the Analytics+ 3.5 major release update!      The February 2024 – 3.5 release for Analytics+ is a major milestone release that delivers a range of high-value dashboards and visualization capabilities. We have exciting features like new IBCS table templates, better storytelling through annotations inside tables, variations for our waterfall chart, excel-like nested sorting, and many more. Just to name a few, we have enhancements across data management, hierarchy handling, and enhanced discoverability with our new user experience (UX) for chart selection.   In the upcom ..read more

Inforiver Analytics+ (50+ Charts, Cards and Tables) is a new product offering that delivers dashboards, visualizations and storyboards. Enterprises use Analytics+ to retire their legacy BI & Visualization tools (Tableau, Qlik, Spotfire, SAP Lumira) and static PowerPoint visualization add-ins (Mekko Graphics or Think cell) and migrate to / consolidate these use cases in Power BI.   Analytics+ vs. Lumel’s other offerings  Here is a quick comparison of Inforiver Analytics+ with some of our other offerings – Inforiver Charts (legacy), Inforiver Matrix and xViz Visualization suit ..read more

Welcome to the Inforiver Enterprise 2.8 release update!     The February release ships with exciting features like the fully redesigned forecasting interface, which has capabilities to extend the forecast period, auto-close, and distribute deficits. We also have enhancements across writeback, data input, and support for images. Discover the innovations driving our product as we continue delivering features most anticipated by the Inforiver community. Thank you for choosing Inforiver!  Feel free to explore the sections that interest you.  1. Writeback  1.1. Filter context fo ..read more

Inforiver Premium Matrix is a very popular Power BI marketplace offering that supports a wide range of reporting use cases. Enterprises use Inforiver Matrix to retire their legacy reporting tools like SAP Business Objects – Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, IBM Cognos Reports, IBI Web Focus Reports and static Excel reports and migrate to / consolidate these use cases in Power BI.   Over the last few months, we added significant capabilities to Inforiver Matrix for reporting use cases (Financial Reports, Paginated Reports, IBCS Reports, Variance Reports, Management Reports, and Execu ..read more

Summary: We are retiring the developer-only subscription plan for Inforiver Matrix. If you are an existing customer, this will not impact you as your plan will be grandfathered. Three months ago, we released a note outlining why we launched developer-based subscription plans (that support unlimited viewers), and why we may discontinue these plans a few months into the future. That time has come now. Effective immediately, we are suspending developer-based subscription plans from AppSource for the reasons outlined below. We are experiencing a huge and disproportional support burden in enterpri ..read more

Inforiver provides a wide array of customizations, data entry capabilities, analysis options, report design, and export options. Let’s take a quick look at the various moving parts of the Inforiver toolbar and how to navigate the different sections.  To enable the toolbar, after assigning data, hover over the top portion of the visual and click on the arrow icon. Note that that toolbar will automatically be displayed if you resize the visual to fill the canvas.  The Inforiver toolbar has 4 main ribbons:  Home  Insert  Design  Export  Additional ribbons a ..read more

Important: Performance mode needs to be used only on brand-new reports. Turning on the performance mode in an existing report will result in losing all the changes and revert the visual to its default state. Similarly, turning off the performance mode also results in losing all the changes. However, as this upcoming 2.7 release has minor code changes only for few bug fixes with no other feature enhancements – we don’t anticipate any regression issues when you migrate to 2.7 from older Inforiver Premium Matrix versions. Inforiver Premium Matrix offers an impressive 100 ..read more