Why use flash charts?

Reasons to use flash charts for Joomla

• Animated and interactive charts help you easily impress your customers

• Quick to install and easy to get started

• All the charts support extensive drill downs

• ARTIO FusionCharts is commercially Open Source

• Trusted by over 12,000 customers across 110 countries

• Cross-platform compatible charting component

What purpose can FusionCharts be used for?

The use of FusionCharts is bounded only by your imaginations, and no other constraints, whatsoever. Whenever you need to give a lively face to boring data tables, FusionCharts can play an active role. FusionCharts is ideal for:

• Business Monitoring and Reporting Applications
  - where charts and graphs form a necessary part

• Digital Dashboards and Executive Information Systems
  - where charts represents various KPIs

• Content and Knowledge Management systems
  - where statistical views are required

• Network monitoring applications

• Surveys and Polls

• Scientific research and experiments
  - where data is to be visually represented

• Anywhere where you need slick charts to represent your data ...

Advantages of using FusionCharts

• Animated Charts add a "wow" factor to your applications & presentations

  It is rightly said that "A picture is worth a thousand words". With FusionCharts, you can take it a step further by animating it. By giving an exciting face to your boring data tables, you'll easily be able to sweep your audience off their feet. Different chart types support different forms of customizable animation.

• Interactive options that image based charting solutions cannot offer

  Since FusionCharts is based on Adobe Flash Platform, it offers a lot of interactive options that traditional image based charting solutions cannot offer. Few examples are scroll charts, self-updating charts, drag-able charts, visual data selection and manipulations features, AJAX compatibility etc.

• No installation hassles

  To use FusionCharts, you do not have to install anything on your server. All you need to do is copy paste the SWF files (the core files of FusionCharts) to your server, just like you would do to any image files - and you're ready to go! So, even on those servers which do not allow installation of ActiveX or any other form of components, FusionCharts can run without any hassles.

• Easy to use

  FusionCharts makes the chart creation process a painless experience for you. Since it uses XML as its data interface, all you need to do is convert your data into XML using a programming language or using the visual GUI provided in FusionCharts - and that's all what is required to create interactive and animated charts.

• Runs on a variety of platforms

  Irrespective of what server side scripting language you're using, FusionCharts can be used to create charts in that. Since FusionCharts uses XML as the data interface, you can run it on any server and against any scripting language. Also, to view the charts, your users just need to have Adobe Flash Player 8, which is one of the most used browser plugins on the planet.

• Reduces load on your servers

  In traditional image based charting systems, the charts are generated as image at the server side. So, for each chart that you need to serve to a user, you'll have to build complex images on the server and then stream it to the client. When the need of hour is high, this can be an expensive resource on the server, as image creation takes a lot of toll on the server. FusionCharts brings you great relief - all the charts are rendered at client side using the widely installed Adobe Flash Platform. The server is just responsible for streaming the pre-built SWF files and your XML data files to the end viewers. From there on, Flash Player takes the onus of rendering the charts. Also, the chart SWF Files can be cached so that you can just update the data, and not send chart SWF files every time.

• A plethora of chart types

  FusionCharts offers you a plethora of chart types. From the basic bar, column, line, pie etc. to the advanced combination and scroll charts, you can build all the charts with the same ease of use.

• Clear licensing policies resulting in a major cost savings

  FusionCharts offers you a clear cut no-nonsense licensing model. We do NOT charge for per-testing server or per-production server. Once you buy a license of FusionCharts, you can host it on multiple servers, if all those servers are hosting the same website. We offer unlimited development servers, unlimited test servers and unlimited CPUs on a given server with each license of FusionCharts. Moreover, if you're using multiple technologies for the same application - like say, ASP for a few modules and PHP for a few modules, you can use FusionCharts for both of them, without having to pay us anything additional. This saves you a lot on licensing cost and renders a generic look and feel to all the charts in your application.

• Easy yet powerful AJAX/JavaScript integration

  FusionCharts offers advanced options to integrate charts with AJAX applications or JavaScript modules. You can update charts on client side, invoke JavaScript functions as hotspot links, or make dynamic calls for XML data to server without involving any page refreshes.

• Open-source product

  FusionCharts is an open-source commercial product. Our open source policy buys you peace of mind, as you can modify or change the source code whenever and however you wish. Moreover, you can use our framework to create new types of charts for your own applications.

• Personalized Support

  As a FusionCharts customer, you'll get personal support from our proven support team. Additionally, we've Online Forums and Knowledge Base that can provide ready-made solutions to most of your technical issues.