en Introduction (charts)

Effective information design gives you a quick and effective overview of your business performance. With graphomate charts you can develop meaningful diagrams according to the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) in various BI tools. Thus, the graphomate charts help decision-makers to capture correlations, patterns or outliers better than tables or rather "decorative" visualisations such as traffic lights or speedometers.

The graphomate charts offer six chart types, which can be aligned horizontally and vertically and extended with deviation charts. In addition to bar and column charts, you can use needle and stack charts, but also waterfall charts - for example for P&L or contribution margin calculations - to depict a uniform notation.

Together with the graphomate matrix and the graphomate bubbles you can implement all requirements of the IBCS easily and exhaustively.

In the following we describe the properties of the graphomate charts. These properties form the "construction kit" that you use to implement your specific requirements for a chart design. Our user interface - the so-called graphomate property sheet (GPS) as well as the visualisation results are almost identical in all BI tools supported by us: SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, Tableau and SAP Lumira Designer.

Furthermore, GPS settings of graphomate charts can be stored on our graphomate server - a free server component - and reused between these BI tools.