Newsletter 2021|03 • IBCS - International Business Communication Standards

Dear IBCS Member,

A great and successful year is about to end. We want to take the opportunity and thank you. Without you, the International Business Communication Standards (IBCS) wouldn’t be what they are. Let’s continue spreading the word so that more professionals can benefit from a consistent visual language for business reports and dashboards.

Now enjoy looking at are our year-end news!

With best wishes for a peaceful Holiday Season
Your IBCS Team

NEW VIDEOS

EMOTIONAL STORY OF IBCS

Rolf Hichert has produced a video with a personal story about his journey towards IBCS. Watch the highlights from forty years of this extraordinary adventure.

Did you know it was like that? We look forward to your comments in response to this email.

ROLF HICHERT ABOUT
NOTATION STANDARDS

This video is a short IBCS intro recorded in September 2021. Rolf is talking about some fresh ideas in reporting and storytelling.

Good to share with your colleagues, bosses, and customers.

IBCS® CERTIFICATION NEWS

SOFTWARE

VitaraCharts, the only IBCS certified chart provider for Microstrategy, has been recertified in August 2021. VitaraCharts is an easy-to-use library of charts for Microstrategy Desktop, Web, and Mobile.

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TRAINER

We proudly announce Paul Damen to be our new IBCS Certified Trainer.

Paul is a Data & Analytics Consultant at Rockfeather consulting in the Netherlands. Rockfeather helps companies create better insights.

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CONSULTANT

Welcome Piotr Bilinski to the team of IBCS Certified Consultants. Piotr is a very experienced freelance consultant from Poland specialized in Business Intelligence and Performance Management projects.

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IBCS STANDARDS NEWS

IBCS Version 1.2: After some technical challenges, we plan to finally release the new IBCS Standards Version 1.2 in early 2022. All training courses have already been updated to follow the new storyline starting with learning the IBCS semantic notation (UNIFY).

New Spanish version: Good news for our Spanish speaking followers: Thanks to our Colombian friend Manuel H. Ramirez, the IBCS Standards will for the first time be available in Spanish language. We plan to release it together with the English Version 1.2 in early 2022.