Power BI Dashboard Examples

This article will aim to provide you with great examples for Power BI Dashboards, to hopefully make your life easier in terms of Power BI design and choosing the right KPIs, which are all annoying and very professional and time-consuming projects.

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Along the way, while I started working with Power BI for my clients, I discovered two crucial things along the way - the design inside Power BI is very annoying, not intuitive and takes a lot of time, and there aren't any good templates out there to use, and secondly, for every dashboard that I wanted to build, it took me forever to find and decide on the right KPIs to show.

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Hopefully, both of these things you can avoid using this article and my recommendations along the way, and focus on the important stuff - which is data.

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I hope you enjoy and find this useful.

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Finance Overview Dashboard

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Finance dashboards are the most commonly used dashboards for Power BI, for obvious reasons of data ease and the fact that in most companies the finance is the first department that gets their data sorted out and organized (followed by Performance Marketing usually).

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Given this is the case, the finance dashboards should be built first. Also, the financial statements are ver standardized, at least supposed to, so the KPIs to show are very obvious and should connect with the standard line items usually shown in the Profit & Loss, Cash Flow and Balance Sheet.

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Here are a few examples and points to address in these dashboard examples in Power BI.

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When to Use: Monthly or quarterly review of overall business performance

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Designed For: Founders, CFOs, financial analysts

This dashboard gives you a clean, high-level overview of profit, loss, and margin trends. It’s ideal for fast reviews in meetings and investor updates.

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Key KPIs shown:

• Net Revenue vs. COGS
• Gross Profit Margin
• EBITDA
• Monthly Trends (Bar + Line visual)

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Sales & Marketing Dashboard

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As mentioned before, right after the finance data, the Sales & Marketing, or Performance Marketing teams are best to respond to data and its organization, so their dashboards are usually the right ones to address best.

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This mostly happens as these industries are quite analytical in nature, using known Performance Marketing KPIs, Google Analytics, GA4, and the usual Google Search Console or Social Media metrics.

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Again, the KPIs are usually quite repetitive, and there is zero need to reinvent the wheel. There are some good examples out there, in Google Analytics, you can find to use for your company.

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I added a few examples of how these can look below, including the know KPIs to use for these departments.

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Key Metrics to Include:

• Campaign ROI
• Lead conversion rates
• Click-through rates (CTR)
• Cost per lead

Tip: Use a Dark Mode Dashboard to reduce screen fatigue during long analytics sessions.

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Operations Dashboard Examples

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Operations people are bad-add, or at least they really think they are. Given this is the case, they really like data and to show they "drive" the business forward with data.

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The operational KPIs actually differ quite a lot from company to company, and it is rare to find KPIs that are identical in two companies that are not very much a like. I have seen also companies that are doing very similar things from a businss model perspective, while measuring totally different things.

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Given this is the case, it is hard to give an example that will fit what you are looking for, but it's possible to give you some examples of Power BI dashboards which are operational in nature, and can and should be modified to fit the specific company's needs.

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See if this helps - it should!

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An Operations Dashboard Template is designed to help operations managers monitor workflow efficiency, task completion rates, and department performance.

Key Metrics to Include:

• Task completion rates
• Productivity by department
• Workflow timelines
• Operational KPIs

Tip: Use an Operations Report Template to keep your team on track and ensure that key deadlines are met.

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_Subscript

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Benefits

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Using templates and existing examples is a very easy questions for me. The benefits are obvious, which is why I struggle to make this paragraph long enough so it will fit SEO purposes - so I am going to say some very obvious things here:

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First of all - you are not a designer, I assume, and you don't plan to. Spending your time in trying to learn the right look and feel of a dashboard is stupid and a huge waste of your time, and your company's time. It does not make sense. And eventually, you will also do a bad job trying to design it. So let it go..

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Secondly, the KPIs, for most industries and needs, are, as they say, tried and true - so there is no need to rethink about it, reinvent the wheel and decide what to show in Cash Flow Analysis, or Google Campaign Summary Power BI Dashboard Examples - better and more professional people have done the legwork, so it's better just to use the exising data available.

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Get an existing Power BI Dashboard Template, customize it, add your own data, focus on what matters - getting the numbers and the data correct, and move on with your life. That's all I have to say about that.

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I am sharing a few additional examples of slick Power BI Dashboard Examples from Finance (Cash Flow), Marketing (Sales) and Business Operations (Human Resources, that one is even customized for Coca Cola!) for you to enjoy.

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Did you like it and find it useful? share, spread the love and keep up the good work, buddy!

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