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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Our sales managers get a lot of questions from prospective customers regarding other companies that have chosen AnyChart. We’ve decided to publish the list of some clients with well-known names.

http://www.anychart.com/company/clients.php

AnyChart for SharePoint beta is available now. It is a charting component designed specifically for Microsoft’s SharePoint portal technology. This web part allows you to create different charts based on SharePoint list data. This product doesn’t require installing any code to the server. AnyChart Flash charting technology is used as the charting engine.

Using AnyChart for SharePoint you can easily build and configure any dashboard in minutes. This solution intended for everybody who deals with creation of dashboard, reporting, analytics, statistical, financial or any other data visualization solutions.

Product page: http://www.anychart.com/products/sharepoint/overview/

Download beta: http://www.anychart.com/products/sharepoint/download/

Installation tutorial: http://www.anychart.com/products/sharepoint/demos/installation.php

Live demo: http://www.SharePointCharting.com/

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/

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.