Entries by Ziga Milek

How to edit styles

In Zebra BI, reporting standards are defined by so-called styles (or management notations). You can take advantage of several predefined styles, but you can also modify them or create your own reporting standards. On top of that, you can share your styles with any number of other Zebra BI users.  

Applying styles to charts

When you insert a chart, Zebra BI will automatically design it according your selected default style. You can see which style is currently the default style by checking the drop down menu under Reporting standards of the Zebra BI ribbon: To change the default style, just select your desired style from the drop down menu. This setting […]

Exporting/Importing styles

Zebra BI allows you to create your own personalized reporting style and share it throughout your corporation. This way you can ensure that every report created by any employee will always use the same colors, shapes, fonts, etc. Check out how easy it is to create and share your personalized reporting styles through Zebra BI:

Structure Analysis

Structure analysis is the most basic analytic task: The reader observes the displayed values and visually compares data categories to each other. These comparisons are usually of the following nature: Looking up a specific value (e.g. finding the sales value of a specific product) Comparing two values Ranking (trying to establish the sequential order of […]

Part-To-Whole Comparison

In business reporting, stacked charts are used for analysing the proportion of parts to the whole value. Zebra BI offers both horizontal (column) and vertical (bar) stacked charts with some advanced features that make these business charts really useful for part-to-whole comparisons:

Contribution Analysis – Waterfall Charts

Contribution Analysis is a special type of part-to-whole analysis where we use the so-called “Waterfall Chart” to assess the contribution of specific data elements to the whole value. With Zebra BI you can insert contribution analysis from time series data (use column / horizontal charts) or from discrete categories (use row / vertical charts to […]

Before you begin – system requirements

Zebra BI works with the following Microsoft Excel versions: MS Excel 2019 MS Excel 2016 MS Excel 2013 MS Excel 2010 with Service Pack 2 If you have Office 365, then you can use Zebra BI with Excel 365 ProPlus, which is included in your Office 365 subscription. Both 32-bit and 64-bit Excel versions are supported.

Excel Add-ins that are supported by Zebra BI

Zebra BI is verified to work with the following Excel Add-ins provided by Microsoft or 3rd party software vendors: MS Power Pivot, Power Query, Power View, Power BI SAP BO Analysis for Office SAP BEx SAP BPC/EPM XLCubed Jedox Tagetik, version 5.3.0 SP3 or higher Zebra BI should also work with other Excel add-ins, available on the market. If […]

Welcome to Zebra BI!

After having completed the installation process, you can now start using Zebra BI. First, start MS Excel – a new tab called Zebra BI will be presented at the rightmost side of your Excel ribbon: