Risk · Quality

Where your risks sit, and which way they are moving

Risk registers live in spreadsheets, and the board wants the picture: a grid of likelihood against impact, coloured from low to critical, with each risk in its cell. Power BI has no risk matrix. People fake one with a matrix visual and conditional formatting, which can show a count per cell but not the names, and can’t show how a risk moved since the last review.

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Four critical risks, four highRisk register by likelihood and impact, numbered by score
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Four critical risks, four highRisk register by likelihood and impact, numbered by score
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Dark report

What it shows

Risk draws the grid (5 × 5 by default, 3 to 10 levels on each axis), colours each cell by its score (likelihood × impact) as Low, Medium, High or Critical, and puts every risk in its cell: as a name, as a dot numbered by rank, or as a count. The header says how many risks there are and how many fall in each band. The bands are one warm ramp from grey to ember, so they read by lightness too, never green against red. Scores with decimals are rounded to the nearest level; scores outside the scale are put at the edge and counted, so nothing goes missing quietly.

How to set it up

Add Risk from AppSource or the .pbiviz file, then drag in:

Risk
One row per risk, such as the ID or title.
Likelihood and Impact
The scores, from 1 up to the number of levels.
Likelihood before and Impact beforePro
The scores at the last review, or before controls. Arrows show where each risk came from, and the header says how many went down, up or stayed.
Size byPro
A measure such as cost exposure; larger values get larger dots.

Read the full Risk guide

In the report

  • Hover a risk for its likelihood, impact, score, band, rank and, with Pro, its earlier score; hover a cell for its score and the risks in it.
  • Click a risk or a cell to filter the report; the rest dims. When another visual is selected, the risks it doesn’t include fade, and counts show “1 / 2”.
  • Light or dark background, high-contrast mode, and your own colours.
  • Tab into the grid and move between cells with the arrow keys; screen readers hear each cell’s levels, score, band and risks.
  • The format pane, the labels and the messages are in English and Norwegian.

Free and Pro

FeatureFreePro
Likelihood × impact grid, 3 to 10 levels each, band colours and thresholds✓✓
Risks as names, numbered dots or counts, with counts per band in the header✓✓
Own level names, cell scores, impact on either axis✓✓
Tooltips, click to filter, cross-highlighting, keyboard, high contrast, light and dark✓✓
Movement: arrows from the earlier cell, “9 lower, 3 higher, 6 unchanged”, and ↓ or ↑ on each risk—✓
Size by: dots sized by exposure or another measure—✓
Risk list: the risks ranked by score beside the matrix, numbered like the dots—✓

Free features always work, with no key and no tag. Pro features need a licence key for Risk or Everything. Without a valid key, Risk draws the current positions with equal dots and no list, with a short notice and a “Try Pro free” button. A paid key keeps Pro working for 7 days after it runs out, so a late renewal never breaks a report.

Your data stays in your report

Risk makes no network calls and stores nothing outside the report. The licence key is checked inside the visual, so it also works offline, in Report Server and in locked-down tenants.

How the visuals handle data

Pro licence
$36per creator a year
$3per viewer a year

For Risk alone. The entire suite is $90 per creator and $7.50 per viewer, or license the whole organisation.

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