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Jürgen Faisst & Diego Berea

IBCS goes ISO

Watch the recording of live-talk about the registration of a project leading to a new ISO standard for the notation of business reports.

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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IBCS&ACCA

ACCA’s 120th anniversary

ACCA has partnered with IBCS to celebrate their 120th anniversary.

The IBCS Institute is proud to join this incredible milestone: "Think Ahead – ACCA Celebrates 120th Anniversary" partnering the gala happening this Thursday in Warsaw.

As part of the celebration, we invite you to watch last year's webinar in partnership with ACCA Europe for business report writers and readers: “Report it with charts – understanding business visually”.

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Esin Özkan

Optional: Analyst certification course with exercises using SAP Analytics Cloud

Watch this video to see how our IBCS Certified Analyst training using SAC can transform your organization.

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IBCS Annual Conference 2025

IBCS Annual Conference is a meeting where Certified Consultants, Analysts, and Software vendors exchange experience. Thank you to all who attended and participated in making this year's edition a remarkable event.

Stay tuned for updates on our next meeting!

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Recertification Anaplan XL

Anaplan XL Reporting helps business users build and distribute insightful, interactive IBCS reports for any audience, on any device, using data-connected Excel.

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Recertification SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP Analytics Cloud is an IBCS® certified solution for business intelligence and organizational planning; enhanced with the power of predictive analytics and machine learning technology.

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Recertification VitaraCharts

VitaraCharts is currently the only certified IBCS chart provider for Microstrategy. An easy-to-use, intuitive library of charts, the Vitaracharts library is a seamless add-on for Microstrategy Desktop, Web, Library, and Mobile.

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Recertification Longview

Longview Analytics is the ideal environment for the creation and distribution of highly customized business intelligence and reporting solutions for mobile and desktop deployment.

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Free for members of the IBCS Association

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.

Join IBCS Association and get a free copy of the PDF.

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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

Can dashboards tell stories?

A good visualization helps telling a story – no question about it. But doesn’t the data visualizer need to know the story before visualizing it? How then can a constantly same dashboard tell stories?

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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.

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What executives expect from reports and dashboards?

Video statements of Senior Managers at German Military, Intel, Minera San Cristobal, REWE and more.

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Impressions from ICA training course in Warsaw

See how our last training in Warsaw looked like.

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