Zürich - 32nd Power BI User Group Meetup

Dear Data Wizards
We are looking forward to inviting all of you to our next meetup.

Topics:
What's New - Kristian
Supercharge your KPI dashboards to drive action - Andrej
Abylon Rapid Planner – the story of a planning and forecasting solution for Microsoft BI - Gergely

The session will be recorded.

Supercharge your KPI dashboards to drive action
A good KPI dashboard should enable users to understand the context behind key metrics and empower them to take actions, based on data. That's called actionable reporting. Reports and dashboards that are well-structured, understandable, and actionable.

It all starts on your landing page with an informative scoreboard that shows where your business is going. Users should immediately understand which KPIs are performing well, and which are not. You should just glance at the landing page and see the comparison to plan, forecast, or previous year, see what is driving your KPIs up or down, and make predictions.

You’ll learn:

• How to create clear and consistent dashboard pages
• How to collect and present key business drivers / KPIs on the landing page
• Elements of Actionable Reporting (advanced charts - variance analysis, small multiples, top N + others, grouped tables with variances. report page tooltips, dynamic commentary, and more)
• Hands-on practical examples in Power BI
• Latest technology from Zebra BI

Join us to learn how to nail your dashboard landing pages in Power BI and make your KPI scorecards super actionable!

Abylon Rapid Planner – the story of a planning and forecasting solution for Microsoft BI
Many data analytics projects are lucky, since all the data required for analytics are already in a structured database, so with the magic of data analytics tools like Power BI we can effectively transform these data to insight for our organization. On the other hand, in many analytical scenarios we are not this lucky. We need significant, complex input from many different business departments to make financial planning, forecasting, pricing, simulations to work. In the presentation we will introduce how BI teams can enable complex data input and analytical scenarios for end-users with our toolset.
Finance and business loves the solution, since the UI is Excel based. BI Teams loves the solution since it is parameterizable for them and everything is stored in a data warehouse.

Good to know
We want this group to be a safe environment that encourages open discussion, exchange of ideas and problems you may face. Therefore, we kindly ask that no members will leverage the information for unsolicited acquisitions of new customers or projects. This group builds on trust, and without it we cannot learn from each other and excel on this topic.

Want to be a presenter?
We are always looking for new speaker. If you are interested and would like to show something to the Power BI Meetup Group please feel free to contact us!