Have you people tried Zebra BI or ValQ? Are they worth the investment?

[BrianJ]

@jtremaria,

While I haven’t used Zebra BI visuals myself, I have seen them used and have heard interviews with the CEO and definitely put them in the top tier of companies leading the development of Power BI custom visuals. I do use other high quality custom visuals on a fairly regular basis, and recently in response to a similar post, put together my (lengthy) thoughts on the use of top-tier custom visuals like Zebra BI. While not an entirely specific answer to your question, I hope the summary below is helpful to you in making your decision.

• Brian

P.S. I have absolutely no experience with ValQ, so can’t comment on them either way.

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