The topic of visualization is becoming more and more important for a fast and secure communication of information. Simple but meaningful representations of information support the decision maker better in capturing correlations, patterns or outliers than tables or decorative elements could - such as pie charts or speedometers. Good information design allows a quick and effective overview on their business.
The graphomate charts are our first product and through constant development it is still the most comprehensive. They are based on six chart types that can be aligned horizontally and vertically. So you can easily and exhaustively implement the recommendations of the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS).
In addition to bar and column diagrams, you can use needle and stack diagrams, but also waterfall diagrams - e.g. for P&L or contribution margin calculations - to map a notation according to IBCS.
In the following we describe the properties of the graphomate charts and the possibility to configure them in our user interface. This user interface is almost identical in all BI front ends - Power BI, Tableau and the SAC. Formatting settings of graphomate charts can be stored on the graphomate server and used in other environments.