Power BI + ZoomCharts = (Power BI)²: Boost your productivity and add the cool-factor to your reports

By Tzvi Keisar as written on powerbi.microsoft.com

As of today, all Microsoft Power BI users can start using dynamic and cool-looking ZoomCharts in reports and dashboards.

With ZoomCharts, you can easier than ever before, explore, present and analyze your data. Full multi-touch support makes interaction seamless across all your devices.

Try it yourself with this Power BI live report to feel the difference:

How do ZoomCharts custom visuals increase your productivity with Power BI?

ZoomCharts is driving innovation in the world of charts and graphs. It’s challenging the very concept of charts by enabling the transition from static data representation to a fully interactive and dynamic user experience. Essentially, charts become alive. Interaction with the charts happens in the most natural way – with a simple click, touch, pinch or swipe. This means that data can be analyzed and presented in a whole new way on any device. ZoomCharts claims that this approach saves time on report generation, presentation and answer seeking, turning data exploration into an engaging experience.

ZoomCharts combines analysis with presentation, making decision making easier than ever.

Three new custom visuals for data presentation and analysis

ZoomCharts has created three custom-visuals for Microsoft Power BI users:

Drill-down donut chart

Designed for exploring multi-level data in depth and across the level of interest.

Try this visual in a Power BI report and get this custom visual from the store.

Start with the overview and drill-down into details with a tap on a slice. Tap in the middle to return to previous level. “Others” slice is dynamic as well - tap to explore.

In this example, we are looking at sales data. With drill-down you can easily see how profits group by industries, company revenue and size.

Drill-down column/line/area chart for category-based data

Designed for exploration and presentation of category-based data.

Try this visual in a Power BI report and get this custom visual& from the store.

Start with the overview and drill-down into details with a tap to expand a column or area of interest. Swipe up to return to the previous level.

In this example we are comparing revenue, cost and profit by product types and billing frequency.

Drill-down column/line/area chart for time-based data

Designed for exploration and presentation of time-based data.

Try this visual in a Power BI report and get this custom visual from the store.

Start with the overview and drill-down into details with a tap. Swipe up or down to zoom in and out. Swipe left or right to pan the timeline. Filter your report by selecting time range on time-axis.

In this example we can see revenue, costs and profits by years. With a touch, you can drill down to month and day level.

Built for productive reports with an engaging cool-factor

As Microsoft Power BI enables filtering through charts, you can combine all three new custom visuals to create even more productive reports. Here is an example of sales data report, where you can see, explore and analyze the sales data by the selected dimensions. Selection of a specific time range in a timeline chart will filter automatically the donut and column charts by the same time range. Similarly, selection of a slice or column will filter automatically the two other charts by the chosen category.

What does this mean for businesses?

With the ever-increasing need to make business-critical decisions, users need to optimize the way they work with reports and dashboards. With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, interactive, multi-touch-ready reports and dashboards is becoming a must-have. Successful businesses are able to make better decisions faster, and ZoomCharts in Power BI enable bussiness users to do that.

What does this all mean to you?

Is ZoomCharts here to change the way we work forever? We don’t know that yet. All we know is that ZoomCharts have customers from more than 35 countries worldwide with companies among the Fortune 500.

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Cost of Data Breaches High for Small Businesses

By Meg Conlan as written on biztechmagazine.com

Cybersecurity concerns aren’t limited to large enterprises.

According to a newly released Kaspersky Lab survey, small businesses shell out an average of $38,000 to recover from a single data breach. The amount climbs once indirect expenses and damage to reputation are taken into account.

Kaspersky Lab calculated $8,000 in indirect expenses, which included staffing, training and infrastructure upgrades designed to prevent future breaches. Losses due to brand damage were more difficult to determine. Kaspersky Lab landed on an estimate of $8,653 after factoring in consultancy expenses, lost business opportunities and the cost of PR and marketing campaigns aimed at restoring corporate image.

The release of those findings coincides with the 12th annual National Cyber Security Awareness Month. President Barack Obama designated October as a time to educate public and private organizations about the importance of data protection during a national security incident, and the Kaspersky Lab results work to underscore that importance.

“These numbers should serve as a wakeup call for both large and small businesses,” Chris Doggett, managing director of Kaspersky Lab North America, said in a statement. “IT security needs to become a more common priority for organizations and it is our hope that these numbers will motivate businesses to take the necessary steps to implement effective cybersecurity technology and strategies to prevent having to pay an enormous cybersecurity bill.”

Thus far, it doesn’t appear that businesses have found that motivation. The survey results show that half of IT professionals don’t list security-breach prevention among their top three IT priorities. Forty-four percent of businesses have not yet implemented anti-malware solutions.

Moving forward, a casual stance on security could be an issue for many organizations, especially considering that security breaches have become pervasive: Kaspersky Lab found that 90 percent of the 5,500 small, medium and large companies surveyed have experienced at least one security incident.

The causes of those breaches vary. Data from the Ponemon Institute’s “2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: United States” shows that 49 percent of data breaches stemmed from malicious or criminal attacks, 19 percent involved employee negligence and 32 percent were caused by system glitches.

Thankfully, policies, procedures and technologies can help mitigate risks. And according to the Ponemon Institute, incident response plans, the extensive use of encryption, CISO leadership, employee training and insurance protection can help reduce the costs of a data breach.

Of course, such factors will only benefit organizations that are willing to pump substantial time and resources into IT, but Kaspersky Lab says IT personnel need only think about the alternative to justify the investments.

“One thing is certain — the cost of a security breach is always higher than the cost of protection,” the report states. “The ability to reduce the risk and avoid the shaky path of recovery always pays off.”

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