PRO Reports Challenges
Improve your report creation skills by participating in free challenges for report creators.
Ongoing Challenges
Challenge 37: Procurement Analytics in Power BI
BEGINS: 17.04.2026
| ENDS: 22.05.2026
Analyze procurement data in this Power BI challenge using purchase order data from 2022–2024. Explore spend trends, supplier performance, and build interactive dashboards for smarter decisions.
Supply Chain Analytics Power BI Challenge
BEGINS: 30.04.2026
| ENDS: 29.05.2026
Build a powerful supply chain report in Power BI for executive management. Sharpen your data visualization skills and showcase your professional credibility within the community.
What You’ll Gain from Your Participation
Joining community report creation challenges will not only give you the chance to win the grand prize, but also provide you with valuable experience to improve your Power BI skills and expand your portfolio.
Work With Real Data: Each community competition gives you the opportunity to work with the same dataset as other competitors, challenging you to find clever and creative ways to visualize data and improve the user experience.
Join a Community of Data-Viz Pros: Whether you’re a Power BI newcomer or a seasoned veteran, each competition is a chance to expand your network, learn tips and tricks from other report creators, and share your own ideas and experience.
Personalized Feedback: Each submission is thoroughly assessed by a team of professional report creators, providing valuable pointers from an outside perspective on what you can do to improve your reports. Participants also gain access to 1:1 mentoring sessions, in addition to Q&A sessions in live webinars.
Use ZoomCharts for Free: Explore the full capabilities of Drill Down Visuals, including limitless customization, cross-chart filtering, and on-chart interactions. All participants get a free developer license for the entire suite of ZoomCharts Power BI visuals for an entire year!
Past Challenges
Have a question about data challenges?
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The ZoomCharts Power BI Challenge is a community report-creation challenge where participants use a provided business dataset to build a Power BI report. The Challenges page lists ongoing and past challenges, and each individual challenge page includes the brief, timeline, dataset, judging criteria, and submission steps.
The challenge is designed for report creators across experience levels: from Power BI newcomers to seasoned veterans. It is built to help participants improve their report-creation skills and expand their portfolio.
Yes. The challenge is designed for all experience levels, including beginners and experienced Power BI users. You can learn and improve your skills through live webinars, Documentation, ZoomCharts video tutorials, 1:1 mentoring, and personalized feedback available through challenge participation.
Benefits of participating in data challenges include working with real data, improving your Power BI skills, growing your portfolio, learning from other creators, receiving personalized feedback, joining webinars, getting a free developer license for the full ZoomCharts visual suite for one year, the opportunity to receive 1:1 mentoring from a Power BI expert, and winning various prizes from ZoomCharts and its partners.
Prizes vary by challenge and are listed on each challenge page, along with the timeline and judging details.
Open one of the ongoing challenges, go to the individual challenge page, and click Get the dataset. Each challenge page includes a dedicated dataset section with the download button.
The dataset download is provided as a .zip package. The easiest way to access it is through the Get the dataset button on the individual challenge page.
ZoomCharts Drill Down PRO visuals are custom visuals for Power BI designed for interactive drill-down reporting. The suite includes 20+ Power BI-certified, touch-enabled visuals that support user-friendly drill-downs, smooth animations, and rich customization. They are ideal for exploring complex data and building highly interactive dashboards. You can explore them on the All ZoomCharts visuals page or find them on Microsoft AppSource.
To start using ZoomCharts visuals, add them from the Power BI visuals library or from Microsoft Marketplace. To build challenge reports in Power BI Desktop, you need to activate the Free Developer License.
To activate and start using the Developer License, first register for an ongoing challenge. Then, in the Activate free ZoomCharts license window, select Get my license if you already have a Microsoft work or school account.
If you do not have a Microsoft account, first register for one of the ongoing challenges and then choose Get Account to get access to Power BI Desktop for the challenge.
Results are announced according to the timeline shown on each individual challenge page, so the best place to check is the challenge page and the specific challenge you joined.
The main learning resources are Documentation, ZoomCharts video tutorials, Webinars, the Visuals Gallery, and the Template Gallery for visualization inspiration.
Each report submission is reviewed manually by the ZoomCharts team and guest judges. The review includes the full .pbix file, report interactivity, design choices, data storytelling, usability, and all relevant report details.
Each participant receives individual feedback from the ZoomCharts team on their first submission. After receiving feedback, participants are welcome to improve their report and resubmit it before the challenge deadline.
The full evaluation criteria are listed on each individual challenge page in the Judging Criteria section.