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Sales Management Dashboard with Power BI The example below creates a Power BI sales dashboard solution to visualize sales data for a sales manager.  The data is loaded into Power BI to create several views that enable everyone from Sales Managers to Sales Reps to gain insights into the performance of the sales team. To see the complete solution - Power BI Sales Dashboard

Build Power BI Data Quality Dashboards Organizations continue to struggle with data quality in their applications.  Finding and cleaning core data elements can often be time consuming and difficult to organize.  Business users need an easy way to see current issues in their data as well as make changes in source applications to see the impact of data corrections.  Business Analyst can create Power BI Data Quality Dashboards directly against source data to uncover data issues. In this Power BI Dashboard for Product Sales, I built data grids and graphs that show sales by Product Type, Retailer Type and Product Line.  Power BI automatically groups the data on the content available in the data.  Below are examples of data issues that popped out as I was building my dashboard. Spotting Data Quality Issues Product Type - The data shows sales for Eye wear and Eyewear, Latern and Laterns, Sun Screen [...]

Create Executive Dashboards using Power BI Managers need the ability to see data from different areas of the business.  Organizing this data into easy to use visualizations enables you to determine trends and discover insights.  In addition, you can create mashups that pull data from different sources into a single dashboard view.  Executive Dashboard with Power BI Dashboard Benefits Businesses that leverage dashboards gain more value from their data by enabling more employees to view data in an easy to use format.  No longer do you need to export data to Excel and create pivot tables and charts and then email those around the office.  Dashboards created and deployed on PowerBI.com.  Enable users to access data through a browser and securely through their tablet or smartphone using the PowerBI app. The goal of any dashboard is to visually present the most relevant data to the target audience.  By using various [...]

Tracking Capital Projects with Power BI This example pulls data related to projects and creates a dashboard that enables users to quickly see actual vs budget and variance.  The status of the projects are shown as well as the breakout of projects by sponsor.  The graphs are interactive and can be filtered by selecting a checkbox on the right such as CapEx or OpEx or by selecting a section on a graph such as Refinery.  There are two pages on this report to provide a comprehensive view of your projects.   To see the complete report - Capital Project Dashboard

Credit Union Membership Map in Power BI This example uses membership data for a fictional credit union to map the members by zipcode.  A heatmap is then created to show which zip codes have the most members.  The darker the color the more members are in that zip code.  In addition, the 4 branch locations are added as red pins with a 10 minute drive time.  The map is interactive and clicking on a zip code or push pin will highlight the appropriate data.  This information was also combined with US Census data to show the number of households by income bands to help you determine where to build new locations or target your marketing efforts. Click here for the full interactive report - Credit Union  

Retail Sales Dashboard with Power BI The example below creates a Power BI solution to visualize retail sales data from each store.  The data is loaded into Power BI to create several views that enable everyone from store managers to regional executives to gain insights into the performance of stores and products.  Easily see the percentage of sale by different categories such as Business Segment, Region, Category or Location. To see the complete solution on PowerBI - Retail Sales Dashboard

  Finding the Loch Ness Monster The example below uses the sighting information from LochNessSightings.com to determine the area that provides your best chance of viewing the Loch Ness Monster.  This report is based on the out of mining the text descriptions using RapidMiner to find the common nouns in the text.  Then the out is stored and visualized with Power BI to produce a heatmap with the sightings.  In your business, you can use this same technique to text mine any description fields such as call center notes, claim notes, part failure information, project notes.  To quickly spot trends or anomalies in your data. View the report here - Loch Ness Monster Sightings in Power BI