We’re happy to announce the production release of AnyChart 5.1 - the most advanced flash charting component. Version 5.1 builds on the success of the earlier 5.0 offering by adding several new chart types, new features, significant performance improvements plus new advanced dashboard features and Adobe AIR support.

New chart types: TreeMaps, HeatMaps, Funnel Charts both in 2D and 3D, Accumulation Pyramid (also known as Pyramidal Funnel) both 2D/3D, 3D Pie and  Doughnut charts.

New features: Scrolling support,  Multiple X Axes both for Categorized and Scatter plots, Markers in Legend, Interactive Labels, Multiple Data Labels Support, Multiple Data Tooltips Support, Multiple Data Markers, Context Menu Localization, Axis Markers Styling Support.

Another exciting news - Now AnyChart is fully compatible with Adobe Air ™. Build your RIA or Desktop Application utilizing the power of AnyChart Flash Charting engine. Also all chart types can now be combined within interactive dashboard: all charts, gauges, maps, funnels.

And the last, but not the least - Significant Performance Improvements. (more…)

Our partners Apex Evangelists have published integration kit for our products and Oracle Application Express. We’re cross-posting that article here. Thank you, Apex Evangelists!!!  Link to original post>>

A few days ago we released our Anychart 5 integration kit for Oracle Application Express (APEX).

Background

APEX has the ability to create (flash) charts. They are based on an older version of Anychart, version 3.3. Although these charts are already nice, there are some problems with it. You can’t do everything you want with it, you can’t print for ex, in short they look fine but not great.
Anychart released a while ago Anychart 5 which not only looks a lot nicer, but it resolved the problems and it has a lot more possibilities and features! Below, on the left, a chart created in APEX by using one of the predefined examples and on the right, the chart in Anychart 5 format.

I hope the charts speak for themselves (more…)

AnyChart, the world leading company in data visualization, and Apex Evangelists, the world leading consulting company which 100% specializes in working with Oracle Application Express, announced today a global partnership to provide high quality customized data visualization solutions for Oracle APEX.

Apex Evangelists are extremely knowledgeable in all areas of Application Express development and have extensive experience of working with the AnyChart products.

Dimitri Gielis has announced about the partnership at Oracle Open World conference  (post in his blog)

More details>>

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Google has released the new browser of the next generation - Google Chrome
It is amazing how fast it is, and also it has a lot of features in such minimal, simple and useful interface

But the most important news for our team is the fact that AnyChart works like a charm with Google Chrome!

And it is the good news for our customers as well - all their  reporting, statistical, BI and other systems built with AnyChart will work in new browser without any extra efforts.

On July 25th, AnyChart Team is proud to present AnyChart version 5.0 with the multipurpose, feature rich Gauge engine.

Version 5.0 Release Overview:

• Gauges Charting Engine
  • Circular (Angular) Gauges - variable angles, multiple scales, auto-fit.
  • Linear Vertical and Horizontal - color ranges, multiple scales and pointers.
  • Image Gauge - for nice look and total customization.
  • Custom Labels - to add descriptions and annotations.
  • Indicator Gauge - to represent device or business indicators.
  • Bullet Graphs.
  • Thermometer Styled Linear Gauges.
  • Tank Styled Linear Gauges.
• Basic Charts Engine Improvements
  • Exploded Slices for Single-Series Pie and Donut Charts.
  • Sorting feature for Pie and Donut Charts.
  • Dashed Grids and Lines.
  • Opera Tooltip Redraw Bug Fixed.
  • Map Tooltip Position in Flex Component Bug Fixed.
  • Animation in Dashboard Mode Fixed.

Please take a look at the Gauge Samples in our Chart Gallery:

• Circular Gauges
• Vertical Gauges
• Horizontal Gauges

And do not miss an opportunity to test:

• Interactive Gauges Samples

The trial version can be downloaded from Download Section.

Existing users eligible for the free or discounted upgrade - please contact support team to upgrade to version 5.0.

Here is a sample Gauges Dashboard created  with AnyChart version 5.0:

AnyChart component for Adobe Flex 3 is now available!

Now Flex developers have better alternative of Flex Charting for adding interactive charts, maps and diagrams into their applications. Our solution allows to build dashboard, reporting, analytical, statistical, financial or any other data visualization solutions with Adobe Flex 3. AnyChart is an advanced Flash based data-visualizataion solution, allowing everyone to utilize power of animation and ultimate interactivity.

It’s just a beta 1 version and we are open for your opinions and suggestions.
You can send them as a comments to this post or contact us directly (support@anychart.com).

You can download SWC library from here:
http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/platforms/flex/AnyChartTrialSWCComponents.zip

And please take a look at the following samples:

Sample #1: Chart types.

http://www.anychart.com/platforms/flex/samples/chartTypes/AnyChartFlexChartTypes.html
Source code of this sample is available here:
http://www.anychart.com/platforms/flex/samples/chartTypes/srcview/index.html

Sample #2: Sales map.

http://www.anychart.com/platforms/flex/samples/salesMap/AnyChartFlexSalesMap.html
Source code of this sample is available here:
http://www.anychart.com/platforms/flex/samples/salesMap/srcview/index.html

Sample #3: Yahoo Weather with AnyChart Flash Maps.

http://www.anychart.com/platforms/flex/samples/yahooWeather/YahooWeatherSample.html
Source code of this sample is available here:
http://www.anychart.com/platforms/flex/samples/yahooWeather/srcview/index.html

Quick start guide:
1. Download AnyChartFlexComponent.swc and add them to the “libs” folder of your project
2. Open your Flex application in the “Design” view.
3. Drag AnyCharFlex from Components panel to the stage (Custom->AnyChartFlex)
4. Open the “Code” view and write XML for the chart. e.g.

<ns1:AnyChartFlex x="10" y="10" width="550" height="400">
<ns1:anychartXML>
<mx:XML>
<anychart>
  <charts>
    <chart>
      <data>
        <series>
          <point name="pt1" y="10" />
          <point name="pt2" y="20" />
          <point name="pt3" y="30" />
          <point name="pt4" y="40" />
          <point name="pt5" y="20" />
        </series>
      </data>
    </chart>
  </charts>
</anychart>
</mx:XML>
</ns1:anychartXML>
</ns1:AnyChartFlex>

That’s it! Quick and Easy!

You can find complete XML reference here:
http://www.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/xmlReference/index.html

Beta 1 provides full support of the AnyChart XML format, it means that all AnyChart features are available!

So - you are welcome to play with our demos and leave your comments! Your opinion is very important for us - Thank you!

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/

We’re glad to announce new version of our charting component with new exciting chart type - geographical maps.

Interactive Maps is a unique feature of AnyChart component that allows you to visualize geo related data.

We use the same swf file to render maps and charts - it allows combining maps and chart in the interactive dashboard and easily deploying both of them.

The maps themselves are stored in a separate file with “*.amap” extension. You just place this file and swf file on your server and specify it in XML settings file to render a desired map.

Here are some tasks you can solve with AnyChart Flash Maps:

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

AnyChart Flash Map 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 - if you have SHP files that contains maps you need - contact us at contact@anychart.com and we will convert them into AnyChart compatible format.
* 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 stored in 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.

Today AnyChart programmers have released the new version - 4.1.1 with one very exciting improvement - the performance while loading the data. They say that some research work in the area of nanotechnology and the latest results in CPU engineering were involved and here it is - http://www.anychart.com/download/

Some tests with huge data sets show the improvement in 30 times - awesome! Now it is very fast!

Yes - I believe in nanotechnology and that words about CPU engineering, but I still think that we deal with some black magic here.

Of course it is a joke about nanotechnology, actually a lot of work was done to optimize the processing of data and tuning the loading of XML and we’ve got the result. I’m sure AnyChart users would appreciate that and like the new release.