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Third-party developers talk about AnyChart…

January 18th, 2009 by Anton Baranchuk

John Cottrill from  CTO Applications LLC:

“I am a sole proprietor that has been developing data driven applications for manufacturing processes for several years now.  My clients require on-demand analysis of the data that they are capturing and intuitive interfaces.

The projects I have been tackling most recently have required a fair amount of data analysis and summaries.  I wanted to display this on-demand data using a combination of charts and tables to make it easy for my clients to drill down into the data that they required.  I have used a couple other charting libraries in the past, but they never really filled the need.  In some cases I was stuck with what I was provided so never looked much further. Read more »

AnyChart Map Converter

December 9th, 2008 by Timothy Loginov

AnyChart presents the first version of long-awaited AnyChart Map Converter utility. This program is designed to convert ESRI ShapeFiles (*.shp) into the special AMAP format for using in the geo map module of AnyChart Flash Component – AnyMap.
Now AnyChart users are not limited with default set of maps delivered with AnyChart component distribution package. The flexible and intuitively clear interface of AnyChart Map Converter utility provides a wide range of functions to obtain the required result:

AnyChart Map Converter features:

  • Smart boundaries simplification to reduce output file size
  • Polygons aggregation in groups by fields of data table
  • Ability to include any number of data columns
  • Ability to add any number of index columns
  • Selection of default geographic projection
  • Ability to use a command-line utility for batch conversion or to automate conversion process
  • Easy-to-use group label location editing

This utility is distributed for free. Please Download AnyChart Map Converter
Tool is designed for Windows platforms and requires .NET Framwork 3.5 installed.

If you’d like to know more about AnyChart Map Converter – please study  AnyChart Map Converter Tutorial.

Apex Evangelists: AnyChart 5 integration kit for APEX

November 18th, 2008 by Anton Baranchuk

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 these charts speak for themselves 😉 Read more »

AnyChart and Apex Evangelists enter global partnership

September 24th, 2008 by Anton Baranchuk

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>>

Read more »

AnyChart – charts for Google Chrome

September 3rd, 2008 by Alex Batsuev

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 the new browser without any extra efforts.

The list of well-known companies that have chosen AnyChart

July 28th, 2008 by Anton Baranchuk

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.

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

Oracle

Microsoft

Ford Motors

Volkswagen

AT&T

SAIC

Halliburton

JPMorgan Chase

Lockheed Martin

Novo Nordinsk

3M

MTV

General Electrics

NXP Corporation

Rolex

Federal Bank of Chicago

Caltrans

OAIT

Reuters

Schlumberge

AnyChart 5.0 Release – featuring Interactive Circular (Angular) and Linear (Horizontal and Vertical) Gauges

July 24th, 2008 by Timothy Loginov

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:

And do not miss an opportunity to test:

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:

Using AnyChart with JSON and JavaScript

June 6th, 2008 by Alex Batsuev

Until now AnyChart was able to get data only in XML format. However it’s not always convenient and requires at least knowledge of XML.

Now we make the life of AnyChart users easier and add the ability of handy Flash chart implementation in JavaScript. Now AnyChart.js has a new method – setJSData, that allows you to set parameters and data to the chart as a JavaScript object.

You can view a simple example here:
http://6.anychart.com/tips_and_tricks/xml-and-js/js-sample.html

How to create an object with settings and data:An object with settings and data has the same structure as AnyChart XML. XML nodes and attributes are properties. Nodes, that can be repeated (for example, <point />) are arrays.

For example:

var chartData = {
 charts: {
   chart: {
     chart_settings: {
        title: { text: "Chart Title" }      },
      data: {
       series: [
         point: [{name: "pt1", y: 12}, {name: "pt2", y: 23}]
       ]
     }
   }
 }
}

Or:

var chartData = {}
chartData.charts = {};
chartData.charts.chart = {};
chartData.charts.chart.chart_settings = {};
chartData.charts.chart.chart_settings.title = {};
chartData.charts.chart.chart_settings.title.text = "Chart Title";
chartData.charts.chart.data = {};
chartData.charts.chart.data.series = [];

var seriesObj = {};
seriesObj.point = [];
seriesObj.point.push({name: "Pt1", y: 12});
seriesObj.point.push({name: "Pt1", y: 23});

chartData.charts.chart.data.series.push(seriesObj);

Object’s structure is equivalent to XML structure. The description of XML you can find here:
http://6.anychart.com/products/anychart/docs/xmlReference/index.html

Setting chart description object to AnyChart is done using setJSData method.

Also we’ve created several examples of using setJSData, including JSON example:

1. An example of object-creation using JavaScript:http://6.anychart.com/tips_and_tricks/xml-and-js/js-sample.html

2. An example of JSON-creation forming: http://6.anychart.com/tips_and_tricks/xml-and-js/json-sample.html

3. An example of JSON-data loading from the text file using AJAX:
http://6.anychart.com/tips_and_tricks/xml-and-js/json-ajax-sample.html

Flex 3 Chart Example(s) and Tutorials with AnyChart for Adobe Flex 3 Charting Component

May 8th, 2008 by Timothy Loginov

Flex application’s range of use is very wide, but the maximum effect this platform has introduced to Business Intelligence. On using Flex it became available to create convenient and interactive dashboards for BI. One of the key moments of dashboards are charts, and their functionality and obviousness affects most of all on comfort of the whole dashboard. AnyChart perfectly fits these criteria, this component greatly surpasses the default Flex Charting Component in functionality and appearance.

Earlier AnyChart was intended for use in HTML-pages and its integration in Flex components was quite a problem, but now we’ve created a Flex component, which gives the amusing results in connection with XML tools in Flex application.

We have created an extensive set of samples that show and explain how AnyChart Flex Charting Component can be used to create Interactive Dashboards, Drilldown charts and Maps in Flex 3.

View: the tutorial and live samples of charting applications in Flex.

add charts to your flex project

Creating Animated Flash Charts and Maps with PHP using AnyChart

May 8th, 2008 by Timothy Loginov

AnyChart is a flexible component for creation charts in Web, you can easily create a lot of charts using it, PHP is one of the most server popular scripting engines, MySQL – is the most popular database to be used with PHP, so we have created a set of samples that explain and demonstrate creation of PHP SWF Flash Charts with AnyChart Flash Charting Component.

Samples include charting data from Array, from MySQL, creation of drilldown (and self drilldown) charts as well as creation of interactive flash maps.

Look through: tutorial of creation flash charts with AnyChart and PHP.
Download: sample package of charting from Array, MySQL and Drilldown Dashboards Creation.

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