IBCS - International Business Communication Standards

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IBCS Annual Conference 2023 in Zurich

The next IBCS Annual Conference will take place on 30 June 2023.

Join the IBCS Certified Analyst course

The upcoming training course in English starts on March 27, 2023 at 5:00 PM CET.

NEW: IBCS Version 1.2

98 rules for comprehensible reports and dashboards illustrated with 180 instructive figures. For the first time also in Spanish.

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The book is out: A practical guide for those who want to know how visual consistency helps better understand reports, presentations and dashboards. From the need for a common visual language to concepts, templates and notation manuals to practical examples from Coca-Cola, Daimler, Philips, SAP and many more.

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Impressions of the IBCS Annual Conference 2022

Solid, outlined, hatched (online with exercises)

Learn how a consistent notation ensures that your reports and dashboards are read and understood. About 30 short lessons with interactive videos, questions, tests and a workbook with practical exercises.

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Upcoming online course for IBCS Certfified Analyst

Understand the SUCCESS formula of IBCS and learn how to apply it in practice.

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Less means more, due to IBCS® Standards

Article in Controlling i Zarządzanie nr 1(39)/2021 in polish language with english translation.

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XLCubed article in Raconteur | The Times

Time for CFOs to say goodbye to Excel?

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IBCS - Fostering comprehension

A video showing how, by applying the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS), we can understand our reports, presentations and dashboards faster and better.

Recertification Inforiver

Inforiver is the only IBCS® certified solution that offers one-click templates for Business and Management Reporting. It is a Low Code/No Code analytics suite that provides superior capabilities in terms of self-service, personalization, and collaboration features.

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Certification CP Reporting Studio

With CP Reporting Studio, report designers can quickly and easily create IBCS-compliant charts based on intelligent one-click reporting with automatic chart suggestions.
In addition, designers can compile all types of charts themselves and link them to data.
Multi-page projects can be created in their final design with logos and leader pages with images for the distribution of fully finished PowerPoint presentations, PDFs or web reports.

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Recertification hi-chart

With hi-chart charts+tables for Power BI, report designers can quickly and easily implement IBCS®-compliant graphics in Power BI.
Intelligent one-click reporting suggests the ideal chart types to suit the respective data structure.
In addition, designers can compile all kinds of graphics themselves and link them to data.
Responsive, interactive graphics can thus be provided for management reporting, presentations and dashboards in Power BI.

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Recertification graphomate charts, matrix and bubbles

Meaningful visualizations, certified according to IBCS, in Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, SAP Analytics and Microsoft Excel including a central management of templates across tools.

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Highly condensed dashboard visuals

Join free online lecture with Rolf Hichert and Jürgen Faisst.

The speakers believe that in order to understand business reality, identify risks and assess future trends, a comprehensive view including context and comparisons is needed.

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IBCS® Standards (PDF)

PDF transcript of the IBCS® Standards, 150 pages illustrated with more than 180 instructive figures, covering all conceptual, perceptual, and semantic rules for the design of comprehensible reports, presentations, and dashboards.

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Editable template

Notation manual (PPT)

Editable PPT template for the creation of a company specific notation manual covering the major design principles for IBCS compliant charts and tables.

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Selected resources

SAP IBCS® promotion and testimonial video

What business management can learn from musicians

Álvaro Alcolea, CFO at Prensa Iberica Media in Barcelona, and Jürgen Faisst talking about what business management can learn from musicians on how to benefit from a standard notation implemented with SAP Design Studio and graphomate charts.

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Testimonial video

Coca-Cola Içecek

Gökhan Kipçak, Group CIO of Coca-Cola Içecek (CCI) in Istanbul gives us his view on the benefits of implementing the IBCS® Standards. CCI has started an international project to implement a new standardized reporting based on Zebra BI in 2014.

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