AnyChart announces new product - AnyChart for SharePoint!
That product will add advanced charting functionality to Microsoft SharePoint projects.

Key features:
- easy integration
- high scalability
- advanced data binding
- visual chart designer
- a lot of chart types
- animation and interactivity
- clear licensing

The product will be launched during March’08.

Interested in product? Want to participate in beta-testing program? Please contact us support@anychart.com

Create visually appealing dashboards and scorecards for SharePoint with AnyChart!

We’re happy to inform that new AnyMap Extension with a number of great features (including Charts and Maps in a single interactive dashboard) is available now.

AnyMap includes a lot of incredible unique features:

• Draw custom markers, bubbles, lines and connectors on the maps.
• Draw any map shipped in the package with no additional charge or royalty - see the list of available maps .
• Use any SHP file to create your custom map - contact us at contact@anychart.com for details.
• Display any map in one of ten map projections.
• Use geographical coordinates (longitude, latitude) to add custom points to the map.
• Use thresholds to color a map automatically, according to the data from your database.
• Add legend, labels and tooltips to a map.
• Attach custom actions to any map region - to create interactive web applications.
• Attach any custom data from your database to the map - for labels, tooltips, legend, coloring or actions.
• Display any data in any language (using UTF-8 char sets).

Now you can easily visualize any geographically related data to solve any of the following tasks:

• Create Drilldown Maps.
• Create Geographical Related Interactive Dashboards.
• Create RealEstate, Distributor, Franchise, Dealer, etc. locators.
• Visualize statistical or reporting data easily.
• Visualize marketing research reports.
• Create Area Selectors for web-sites.

Also AnyChart product includes some improvements and new features:

• Interactivity
  - Multiple Elements Select
  - Selectable/Hoverable Settings for Interactive Elements
  - Title, Subtitle and Footer Actions
  - updateView and updateChart tokens technique
• Custom Controls with Fixed, Floating and Auto Layout
  - Multiple Custom Interactive Labels
  - Multiple Legends
• Thresholds
  - Custom condition based thresholds
  - Automatic Thresholds
• Exporting
  - Save As PDF
  - Save As Image now has export image size settings
  - External invoking of Save As and Printing functions
  - Autosaving a chart upon rendering
• Axes
  - Axes Custom Labels
  - Axes Custom Lines (trends)
  - Axes Custom Ranges (zones)
  - New Axes Keywords
  - New Extra Axes Definition Format
• Templates
  - ability to change series and data nodes attributes using template
• No Data Message Configuration
• External showLoading commands and text configuration
• Massive AnyChart.js update
  - https issues fix
  - wmode parameter support

Please note that you can purchase AnyChart with AnyMap in bundle and save more than 25%.
Also our existing customers are welcome to contact us to get their personal discount coupon.

Useful links:

You can download AnyChart Flash Chart Component 4.2 with interactive maps here:
http://anychart.com/download/

Also You can look at the samples in our gallery:
http://anychart.com/products/anychart/gallery/

AnyChart Maps samples available here:
http://anychart.com/products/anychart/gallery/Interactive-Maps.php

Order page:
http://www.anychart.com/products/anymap/buy/

http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/creating-dashboard-from-scratch.php

Like the instrument panel in a car, the computer version-dashboard displays critical info in easy-to-read graphics, assembled from data pulled in real time from corporate software programs. Dashboards deliver the detailed information needed by everyone for day-to-day decision-making. Simple yet powerful analysis allows any user to discover vital trends in business performance and continuously monitor the performance of your organization at all levels and in real time.

Dashboards provide your business with real-time business intelligence across all areas of your company – from accounting and sales, to fulfillment and support. The Dashboard offers instant snapshots of your designated key performance indicators (KPIs), and provides real-time trend graphs and ad hoc reports appropriate for each role in your business. With direct drill-down capability, you can move from a summary level directly to greater detail, and you can see real-time information to proactively manage for better results.

While most enterprise dashboards in production are probably still custom built, we provide you a new way of dashboard creation - using AnyChart Flash Component Dashboard mode. Since all charts created by AnyChart Flash Chart Component are rendered using a single swf file it is very easy to place such swf file to your web-site and provide it with an XML configuration file that configures a dashboard.

In this article we will create step-by-step a sample dashboard, at first - we will make a static one - that can be used for presentation purposes, and then - we will add interactivity, which makes dashboard a really useful and modern tool of business data analytics. We’ll go thought all steps from “paper-design” created by hand to the interactive Flash dashboard.

Read it here http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/creating-dashboard-from-scratch.php

This article was written by Tim Loginov as part of AnyChart Documentation.