NetCharts® Designer

Data Visualization Made Easy

For over a decade, Visual Mining has helped development professionals deliver performance dashboard and reporting solutions to thousands of users worldwide. With the NetCharts® Designer Integrated Development Environment (IDE) you have the ability to customize your data presentation in any way you choose. Everything you need to create a dashboard, PDF document, performance metrics, or business intelligence report is at your fingertips. When you’re done designing your project, deploy your data presentation application to NetCharts Server with just a few keystrokes. NetCharts Designer is also a great tool for designing chart templates for NetCharts Pro and NetCharts Applets.

Design templates without programming
Retrieve data from multiple data sources with automatic data refresh
Easily configure interactivity: roll-overs, drill-down, pop-ups, scrolling, and zoom
Auto-generate AJAX-powered dashboard pages
Multiple language support (JSP, ASP/.NET, CFML)
Wizard-based, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get
(WYSIWYG) development
Drag-and-drop page layout
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for reusing formatting styles
Industry-standard Eclipse platform

Feature Highlights

NetCharts Designer is loaded with features designed to simplify the development of data presentation applications, including:

Reduce Development Costs

Deliver a complete picture of your business by creating unique analytic components for placement on your dashboard - effectively merging your key performance indicators (KPIs) into a single comprehensive view.

Desktop report design tool with wizard-based development
Non-technical users can design chart, report, and dashboard templates without programming
Instantly and automatically refresh your data, chart, table, and page templates
NetCharts graphical content is easily integrated into existing performance applications or exported for use in external dashboards

Configuration Extensibility

NetCharts Designer contains built-in data tools and extensible “hooks” to convert raw data into meaningful information. Built-in or custom analytical process modules can be “chained” together in order to produce the appropriate output (e.g., a sum function followed by a sort).

Built-in aggregation and transformation process modules, including grouping, sorting, and mathematical functions
Preview Browser saves time by providing a continuously up-to-date view of the current development

Leverage Outstanding Visualization

NetCharts Designer creates template files that describe data presentation elements. This may include any combination of templates for data connectivity, charts, tables, and pages. Each of these elements can be used standalone or as part of a larger application.

Extensive chart template library with thousands of formatting options, including Heat Map, Multi-Pie, and Pareto charts, and automated text wrapping
Interactive effects (e.g., roll-over, drill-down, pop-up, scroll, and zoom)
Just-in-time configuration using variables passed in at run time
Internationalization provides:
- Ability to render charts, tabular data, and page content using virtually any language, date/time convention, or currency presentation
- Ability to load data from multi-byte sources
- Support for internationalized text to be used as conditional drill-down tag

Additional NetCharts Designer Information:

Features
Specifications
Product Brochure (965KB PDF)
Tutorials for NetCharts Designer (6.17MB PDF)
Using NetCharts Designer to build NetCharts Applets and NetCharts Pro applications (79KB PDF)
Developers' Resources