Newsletter 2026-06 • IBCS - International Business Communication Standards

Dear IBCS Fan,

What we announced in spring is now becoming reality. ISO 24896 has been published, IBCS Standards Version 2.0 are on the way, and our Annual Conference in Konstanz opened the next chapter for the IBCS community.

Read what has happened, what is changing, and what comes next.

Warm regards,

Your IBCS Team

Publication of ISO 24896 – Notation for Business Reporting

We are happy to share an important milestone for the global IBCS community: on June 11, 2026, the International Organization for Standardization published ISO 24896:2026 – Notation for Business Reporting.

ISO 24896 is the first international standard to define consistent design requirements for the visual notation of business reports, including charts, tables, and text elements. Built on the principles of IBCS notations, it supports clearer, more consistent, and more effective business communication in reports, presentations, and dashboards.

For the IBCS community, this publication marks an important step in bringing standardized business reporting notation to a global audience. The IBCS Association welcomes this milestone and will continue to support the development, adoption, and practical application of ISO 24896 worldwide.

On June 16, 2026, Jürgen Faisst and Diego Berea hosted the webinar “ISO 24896 is here: The new international standard for business reporting notation.”

Watch recording to find out what benefits ISO 24896 brings to decision makers and report creators, and why its publication as an International Standard is an important milestone for business reporting.

New Executive Board and Management Team
of the IBCS Association

During the General Assembly, the IBCS Association elected its new Executive Board and introduced the new Management Team.

Together with the IBCS-community, the new leadership will shape the future of IBCS. With the notation rules now ISO certified and IBCS 2.0 about to be released, their focus moves to the next chapter: IBCS 3.0 – advancing modern, impactful business communication in an AI-driven world.

The Executive Board consists of Bernie Smith, Johannes von Mulert, and Edyta Szarska.

The Management Team includes Arne-Kristian Schulz as Managing Director, IBCS Product, and Stefanie Fröhner as Managing Director, IBCS Community. Diego Berea joins the team as IBCS Stewardship Lead for the ISO 24896 Series.

Rolf Hichert, founder of the IBCS Institute and initiator of the IBCS concept, agreed to continue to accompany the Association as Honoured President.

IBCS Annual Conference 2026

Coming home: The origin. The accomplishment. The next chapter.

The conference of certified IBCS professionals took place on June 12, 2026, in Konstanz, Germany. The meeting brought the IBCS community together for exchange, inspiration, and discussions about the future of business communication.

Thank you to everyone who joined us.

See the impressions from this year’s conference.

IBCS Version 2.0 (ISO 24896 compliant)

We’re excited to announce that the new IBCS Standards Version 2.0 will be officially released next week, once we are ready with the product on Amazon.com. This milestone completes the accomplishments of the past years and sets the groudwork for IBCS 3.0. The updated standards reflect extensive collaboration and refinement, and we look forward to making them available to the entire IBCS community.

New IBCS SUCCESS WITH ISO 24896 poster

The new IBCS SUCCESS poster is now available in an ISO 24896-compliant version.
It brings the SUCCESS formula into a clear visual format and helps teams apply standardized business reporting notation and composition in practice.

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You can also order the poster with your company logo. Contact us for more details.

New IBCS Certified Consultants

Marion Berg works as BI consultant at consultnetwork GmbH, a consulting and service company specializing in controlling, and focuses on implementing modern reporting solutions based on Microsoft technologies such as Power BI.

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Michael Darnieder is the CEO and founder of TEDEXA GmbH and integrates AI, data, and processes in a way that delivers measurable benefits for businesses. His holistic approach to AI combines strategy, technology, law, ethics, culture, and implementation – ensuring that ideas are transformed into effective solutions.

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Jürgen Gerner has been a BI project manager since 2014 and has been using IBCS standards in his daily work since 2016 – 10 years before obtaining his certification as IBCS consultant. He has experience in both data architecture and visualization. With his background in economics, he speaks the language of his end users.

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Iwona Stasiak is an independent Finance & Reporting Consultant specializing in IBCS principles, management reporting, FP&A transformation, planning processes, and governance.

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New IBCS Certified Software

Microsoft Fabric, the unified data platform for the AI era, now natively delivers enterprise planning with IBCS-certified tables and charts, supported by a single, trusted business layer across planning, analytics, and reporting.

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Infotopics develops premium Tableau extensions that turn dashboards into interactive, collaborative, and actionable decision-making environments. With FinanceTables, part of the Infotopics portfolio, organizations can create structured, IBCS-certified financial reports directly in Tableau, supporting clearer communication and more consistent management reporting.

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Farseer is an integrated FP&A platform that brings planning, modeling, reporting, and financial consolidation together in one shared data environment. Built for finance teams that need consistency, speed, and transparency, it enables analysts to prepare data once and use it across forecasts, dashboards, reports, and planning workflows – all supported by IBCS-compliant visualizations.

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