Inforiver

What the product is

Inforiver is a no-code dashboarding and reporting suite for Power BI. It is a product of Lumel, which the site calls "the #1 Power BI AppSource Partner," and it is written for finance controllers, business managers and enterprise reporting teams that already work in Power BI and want Excel-like control over how reports look. The company lists its headquarters at Plano, TX, and says Lumel serves over 3,000 customers worldwide through Inforiver, EDITable, ValQ and xViz.

The central offer is the Inforiver BI Bundle: one license that covers 4 certified visuals, Analytics+, Reporting Matrix, Premium Table and Super Filter. The site describes the suite as "a comprehensive no-code dashboarding suite for Power BI" built to retire legacy BI tools.

What you build and how

You build inside Power BI, not in a separate editor. Inforiver supplies the visuals that sit on a Power BI report page, and the site's pitch is that business users get formatting and layout control they would otherwise get only from Excel or from a specialist.

Each visual in the suite has its own job, as the site describes them.

• Analytics+ is called a visualization and storytelling suite. The site says it brings advanced visualizations, interactive storytelling, KPI cards and dynamic tables into Power BI in one no-code visual, designed to replace legacy analytics tools.
• Reporting Matrix covers financial and iBCS reporting. This is the visual with the most detail on the pages. It offers 9 business templates you can toggle between in a single click, Excel-like table layouts (classic, stepped, outline and more), and a pivot mode that shows measures on rows or columns. Reports can paginate with First, Previous, Next and Last navigation, with page and section breaks you insert yourself or set dynamically from category values, for example starting each category on a new page. You configure a report header and footer with logos and KPI cards from preset layouts, insert pre-defined KPI cards with integrated trend and variance visualizations, and add footnotes and annotations for specific accounts, which the page compares to annual reports. Formatting reaches down to cell, row and column level: borders, font and background colors, text alignment, showing or hiding rows, and resizing rows. Number formatting covers decimals, prefixes and suffixes at table, measure or cell level. The product navigation also mentions snapshots and scheduling for this visual.
• Premium Table is described as Excel-like, no-code tables for Power BI reports, and the navigation calls it scalable.
• Super Filter is the all-in-one slicer. The site lists stacked filter panels, a date picker with fiscal presets, facet and cascade filtering, search, bulk filtering and saved presets. The navigation labels it as free.

Planning and data entry sit in a separate family. The navigation lists an Inforiver XP&A Bundle for planning, budgeting, forecasting and master data management, a Writeback Matrix for building planning and data writeback apps on top of Power BI semantic models, and EDITable for self-service reference data management. The home page features a video on building enterprise planning solutions without code in Power BI and Fabric, with writeback, workflows and dynamic allocations. Those products are context here; the entry is about the reporting and dashboard bundle.

For the people reading the finished report, the experience is a Power BI report with paginated, formatted tables and KPI cards that look like a financial statement rather than a default matrix. The company's brochure pitch also names report scheduling and what-if simulation among capabilities of the wider platform.

The evidence from the pages

The pages publish no prices for the suite. The navigation points to separate pricing pages for Analytics+, Reporting Matrix and Premium Table, and an FAQ section covers AppSource purchases, subscription, licensing and reselling, but none of those figures are on the pages here. The home page offers a demo and a trial.

On scale and standing, the site claims the following.

• "Trusted by 3,000+ leading brands," and a description of the platform as adopted by many Fortune 100 firms.
• Badges reading Power BI Certified and iBCS Certified.
• A 4.86/5 rating described as "Outstanding" in the 2024 BPM Pulse Research Study, where the site says users voted Inforiver by Lumel Best New Vendor for Enterprise Performance Management.
• A Microsoft announcement of a shared vision and collaboration with Lumel, linked from the home page.

Case studies on the home page name Adapa, which the page says streamlined planning across 21 centers, Ibex, which moved from Excel forecasting to real-time data feedback, and Merck, which moved from Excel to Inforiver on Power BI for forecasting. These are the company's own summaries.

The testimonials are worth reading because they show the intended reader. Rickard Aronsson, Head of Group Analytics at Humana AB, says the team "noticed the benefits of controllers being able to build financial reports themselves, something which was impossible with our previous solution," and that the combination of Inforiver matrixes with other interactive visuals was described as "pure magic" by both finance departments and business managers. Marco Russo of SQLBI and OkViz is quoted calling it more than a custom visual, with a formula expression editor to create visual-level calculations. Khaled Chowdhury, formerly of CMC Materials, mentions audit logs and the ability to simulate scenarios with no code.

The BI Bundle is also pitched as a replacement for Tableau, Spotfire, Qlik, think-cell, Mekko, Cognos, Excel and SAP BusinessObjects, with on-demand webinars about migrating from Tableau, Qlik, Cognos, Spotfire and SAP to Power BI. There is a user community for questions and feature requests, and a status page.

Who it suits and who it does not

Inforiver suits a finance team that lives in Power BI and wants controllers to build statements, variance reports and board packs themselves. The strongest evidence on the pages is exactly that scenario: Excel-style layouts, footnotes, page breaks and KPI cards that finance people expect, delivered without writing code. It also suits a Power BI center of excellence that wants one license and consistent design across reports rather than several custom visuals.

It is not a standalone dashboard builder. Everything on the pages assumes Power BI, and the site frames the product as a set of visuals for it, so a team without Power BI would be buying two things, or looking at a different product category. The pages do not say whether Inforiver offers a free tier of its own beyond the free Super Filter, they publish no pricing, and they do not describe self-hosting or code export. A buyer who needs a price before a call will have to ask.

A second caveat is the Excel-like approach itself. People who want to drop fields on a canvas and let defaults decide the layout may find that this style of formatting rewards time spent on layout details.