Power BI is an amazing Analytic tool. Now you can Enter Data & Plan too!
Power ON Visual Planner makes it a reality to Write-back and Plan in Power BI!
With Visual Planner you can go beyond Analysis in Power BI, to Plan, Forecast, and Collaborate in real-time.
Edit, comment, filter, do what-if scenarios; Power BI updates instantaneously, all while respecting role-based Security.
How We Help
Turn Power BI into a 2-way Street
Go beyond Analysis to Write-back and Plan in Power BI
Work in Power BI
like you do Excel
Copy, paste, filter, conditional format, client side calcs, and more...
Collaborate
in Power BI
Across your org; Leadership, Lines of Business, Regions, ...
Get Better Data
& More Confidence
Analysis, Planning, and Informed Decisions unified in one place
Visual Planner + Power XL enables you to work in Power BI like you do in Excel, through 4 main visual components.
Pivot Tables
Client-side Pivot Table settings in Power BI
Tables
Read/write, Copy/paste, Sort/filter, and more
Forms
Forms and data collection as easily as if in Excel
Reports
Excel-like report design and formatting; in Power BI
Capabilities
Visual Planner + Power XL delivers robust capabilities to support your Planning and other Collaborative processes
Data Collection
Enter Data and Comments directly in Power BI
Commentary
Add Comments at the data-point, or cell-level
Forecasting
Create Forecasts or other Versions; click-not-code
Write-back
Save data with real-time write-back in Power BI
Drag & Drop
'Drag' to add or edit writable Visuals and Charts
Charting
Incorporate interactive Bar, Line, and Gantt charts
Modeling
Model What-if-Scenarios for on-the-fly analysis
Manage Data
Perform Master Data Management tasks
Workflow
Set up advanced approval and notification workflow
Predictions
Drive insights with AI, ML, and other predictive rules
Security
Respect existing Security or add Advanced rules
Technology
Flexibly fit into your tech stack and preferences
Components & Capabilities 'in Detail'
Power XL
A Filtered Spreadsheet in Power BI
With Visual Planner + Power XL components you get a true 'Filtered Spreadsheet' experience directly in Power BI. Gone are the days of analysis in Power BI, then exporting to Excel to do what-if analysis, commentary, etc... Now you can analyze, and immediately enter, edit, copy/paste, filter, slice, and even format directly in Power BI. You get the flexibility of an Excel spreadsheet, and the power of Power BI.
Include Statistical, Operational, or Financial metrics
Actual, Plan, and Forecast data in the same matrix
For any data: Expense, Revenue, Sales, Supply, Demand, Inventory, HR, and more
Tables
A true filtered spreadsheet experience, inside Power BI. With Power XL Table component you can interact with data across Planning and other collaborative processes; product, sales, customers, revenues, expense, etc... Edit, write-back and plan in Power BI, as if you were in Excel; right mouse click, copy/paste, drag down, and more.
Commenting: individual or threaded conversation
Client-side filtering and sorting
Copy/paste
Rich input controls; Text and Check boxes, Drop Downs, Date Picker, and more...
Bar-charts, Line-charts, and Gantt-charts provide interactive analysis and edit capability across collaborative processes; Planning, Forecasting, Project Management (Gantt), etc...
WYSIWYG edits to Plans and Forecasts
Drag to edit values across Bar, Line or Gantt charts
Do rapid-fire what-ifs and see immediate effects
Automate Project updates to schedules, tasks, and critical path sequences (Gantt)
Manage tasks and sub-tasks through visual hierarchies
Effectively manage your data structures, hierarchies, and elements. Our Table Editor enables Master Data Management as a custom visual within Power BI.
Add, Delete, Modify any value (respects approval, workflow, and/or role-based security)
Add values, drop-downs, checkboxes, calendar picker, text, text areas to any dataset
With Power ON you can capitalize on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and ‘R’ within Power BI. Apply these powerful tools to organizational data to create projections that complement and boost human decisions across any planning and forecasting process.
RUN AI/ML Rules inside Power BI to generate predictive datasets
Create ML Forecasts on any Data
Model Predictive analytics that can return ‘R’ or Python script data point to Power BI
With Power ON we can now use the Power BI interface to input data that trains our Customer and Product development ML models.
Technology & Security
Power ON solutions fit into your technology environment and embed seamlessly into the Power BI ecosystem. In the Cloud, on-prem, or hybrid we leverage and respect your existing systems and security.
Run in Private or Public Cloud
Use it On-Prem with Power BI Report Server
House it in your own Azure tenant
Works across disparate datasets; Composite Models and Hybrid Tables
Leverage advanced read and write Rules
Create User or Group based security rules
All our planning is now done with Power ON/Power Planner because before using Power ON our corporate budgeting cycle used to take 3+ months. This year it only took us 2.5 weeks using Power ON. Power BI makes it easier to view data quicker and write-back in Power BI
Travis Buckingham, Director of Finance & Accounting, Data Strategy, Stewart Title
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