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We are glad to inform you that the xViz custom visuals licenses are now available for direct purchase from the Microsoft AppSource. Quick Links: Benefits of purchasing xViz visuals directly from Microsoft AppSource: Considerations and Limitations: xViz licenses for these use cases will be available for purchase from our website. What changes for our customers: […]

Have you ever wondered how can we visualize the timeline of various projects with multiple phases? With multiple ongoing projects, and each having to go through a series of phases, it becomes essential to visualize the plan in an effective manner. Consider having the following data of four construction projects, each with five stages and […]

Area charts are very useful in visualizing dense data over time. 100% Stacking is a part-to-whole representation of the area chart to focus on the contribution of different categories and across the horizontal axis like time.  The xViz Multiple Axes Chart provides a variety of data representations in up to 5 different axes. The data representation […]

The xViz visualization suite has 19 visuals to offer. Each of these visuals can be used for various reporting needs. In this article, we’re going to have a look at some of the unique xViz visuals that can be used to represent your data differently to help give you a new perspective and derive new […]

Imagine that you are a general manager, and you want to monitor how all the stores in the region are performing, in terms of sales and goods sold. You could have around ten stores in a particular state. Monitoring this on a line chart could get messy and confusing. To get valuable insights, the best […]

Tracking the performance of any entity, like Stores, involves evaluating several KPIs. This brings a need to concisely represent multiple KPIs for comparison in one visual. Most of the time, these measures might not have the same scale or even be the same kind of measure, for example, you might want to see sales in […]

Marimekko Chart, also known as Mekko chart, is used to analyze two KPIs across two categories. A typical Mekko chart utilizes the width of a column chart to add the information of one more metric. In the image above, we are visualizing a sample dataset of the Scores of a few US Cities for various […]

When it comes to tracking & monitoring projects, the xViz Gantt Chart can be a very useful tool in your arsenal. The tool offers plenty of enterprise-level features that set it apart, and these features can be set up easily by business users as well. Of these many features, one that we’d like to particularly […]

The KPI values on a report become more meaningful when those are associated with comparative factors like a target, benchmark, past performance, etc. The Bullet chart is one such visual that provides the aid of visualizing KPIs with such benchmarks. Additionally, the KPIs of any business are often interdependent. This creates a need to visualize […]

You have probably been using the concept of the Waterfall chart to visualize a chain of positive and negative data intuitively, resulting in the final net value. But did you know that using the same concept, you can represent data in a bunch of different variations? This blog will cover 7 of these variations that […]