Zentrix Network Graph

A seeded, deterministic force-directed layout places every node the same way for the same data — no more “my graph moved” on refresh. There is no random seed and no wall clock anywhere in the layout path. Pin layout, on Pro, freezes an arrangement into the report so later renders replay it and skip the simulation entirely.

Hover a node to lift it and its neighbours and dim everything else, drag to hand-arrange, lasso-select a region — all free. Explore mode walks outward from one node hop by hop, and path analysis traces the shortest route between any two nodes, optionally weighted by edge value; both are Enterprise.

Community detection groups related nodes without you binding a category field, and colours the graph by what it found — that part is Pro. Enterprise draws the hulls around each community, with meta-node collapse, cluster labels and spatial grouping, so the shape of the network reads at a glance.

A plain-English read-out that names the hubs, the bridges between groups, the isolated pieces and how fragmented the whole thing is — the influential nodes and single points of failure you'd otherwise miss. Findings are clickable: highlight the bridges it named, or colour the graph by the communities it found.

Force-directed, concentric, circular, grid and tree / org-chart, all free and all switched from the in-visual settings bar rather than the format pane. Tree follows your Node parent field when you bind one and derives its own hierarchy when you don't. Geo layout, from latitude and longitude with an offline outline map, is Enterprise.

The graph itself and a sortable node-metrics table with degree, in/out and weighted totals — both free, both searchable and filterable, with CSV export. The plain-English insight read-out is the third view, on Pro. Same numbers in all three, so the table and the story never disagree.

28 setting groups and 169 properties live in a floating gear on the canvas, not buried in the format pane, with search that speaks Power BI's own vocabulary — type “data colors” or “conditional formatting” and it finds our control. Quick actions cover zoom, fit, reset, undo/redo, and export to CSV, Excel, PNG or PDF. All free.

Cross-filters the rest of your report on click, multi-select, keyboard navigation with a visible focus ring, a colourblind-safe palette filter and high-contrast support — every bit of it free. Beyond the node cap it tells you it is showing N of M rather than freezing or dropping data quietly.