KPI Weather by SmartVisuals

Your KPIs as a weather forecast. Which KPIs are in trouble, at a glance: actual vs target becomes sunny, partly cloudy, rain or storm for every KPI, with the trend arrow, free. Add a prior-year (or any) measure and every KPI shows its change against it, free. Premium Outlook forecasts the coming months with the chance of meeting target. No DAX and no emoji: our own weather art, drawn in SVG.

Free features:

• Weather for unlimited KPIs: sunny on target, partly cloudy within tolerance, rain below, storm far below, fog when there is no reading
• Rule-based colours: tolerance bands (100 / 95 / 85 % by default) or per-KPI rain and storm threshold measures set each KPI's colour, glyph and word; fx rules, gradient or field value on the value colour
• Lower-is-better KPIs (costs, scrap, lead time) per visual or per row; zero-harm targets
• Target value, five-step trend arrow (wind) and sparkline with target line; hover a point for its value, click it to filter by that period; optional rule that a falling trend lowers the weather
• One comparison measure, such as prior year: "vs Prior year +4.2%" on every KPI and in the table; the tooltip says better or worse for that KPI
• Layouts: one big hero (with wall-screen rotation), small multiples (a grid of KPI tiles with group headers), a forecast strip, and Boardroom mode - the same data as a plain status table
• Data labels for name, value, target and variance; display units, decimals, prefix and suffix; dynamic format strings (DAX format expressions, calculation groups) and per-KPI formats from the "Unit or format" field
• Sorting: worst or best first, by name or in data order
• A weather report sentence that sums up the whole scorecard
• Weather art in four styles, four themes with their own personality, weather or business words or your own
• Format on the canvas (on-object formatting); animations settle on a static frame for PDF and PowerPoint export

Works the Power BI way: tooltips and report page tooltips, highlight and cross-filter with multi-select, bookmarks, context menu, the modern format pane, a start-up guide and tiles that reflow to the visual's size.

Accessibility (free): fully keyboard operable (one tab stop, arrow keys, Home/End, Enter, Escape, Shift+F10) with a visible focus outline; every KPI labelled for screen readers; Windows high contrast support; status never by colour alone (shape and word on every KPI); wall rotation pauses on hover, focus or Space. The Accessibility card sets the focus outline, a minimum text size and Reduce motion.

20 languages for the format pane and the visual's text: Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Premium features - "Outlook" ($1.99 per user per month or $19 per user per year, first month free, via Microsoft Marketplace):

• Outlook: the weather for the next 1 to 6 periods from a linear trend, each period judged against its own budget
• Chance of meeting target for every forecast period, the way a forecaster gives the chance of rain
• Storm warnings and outlook sentences in the weather report: "Scrap rate turns stormy in Oct 2026"
• Pace to target: year, quarter or month to date judged against where you should be today, with the run-rate landing
• More comparisons: a second and third measure (prior year, forecast, group average side by side)
• Comparison from the series, no DAX: latest vs n periods back, or last n vs the n before, with period labels
• Sky scenes: weather-matched sky backdrops for wall screens and landing pages

Every premium feature is unlocked while you edit, so you can try it all before buying. Viewers without a licence always see the free tier, never a blocked or watermarked visual; they keep the first comparison, and a paced KPI shows "no reading" rather than a wrong weather. No data leaves Power BI: the visual makes no external calls.

The forecast is honest and simple: a least-squares line through your last periods, the method named in every tooltip, and statistics validated against SciPy.

New in 1.1.0.0: on-object formatting, dynamic format strings, prefix and suffix, fx on the value colour and clickable sparkline points (all free), and the comparison from the series (Premium). Nothing that was free became Premium.

Built for executive landing pages, plant wall screens, monthly business reviews and project status reports.

Docs, use cases and FAQ: https://smartvisuals.io/visuals/kpi-weather - Support: https://smartvisuals.io/support#kpi-weather - Release notes: https://smartvisuals.io/changelog#kpi-weather - hello@smartvisuals.io