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| |  |  |  | |  | | Pivot Charting in SharePoint with Nevron Chart for SharePoint | |
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| |  Pivot Charting in SharePoint
SharePoint is quickly becoming a popular content management system that small to large companies around the globe use to share information. The information managed by a SharePoint server is almost always heterogeneous – users publish Office documents, create SharePoint lists, access data from diverse databases, use the SharePoint Business Data Catalog to provide a common interface to a large set of other data sources including web services etc. This article describes the SharePoint Pivot Charting requirements. Download the full article | |
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| - The need for Pivot Charting in SharePoint
The diversity of data sources makes it difficult for any organization to create or incorporate a solution that handles all types of data that comes from various origins in a consistent manner. The complexity of any such solution is further increased by the needs of the organization to be able to perform data analysis and be able to display the results graphically. Nevron Chart for SharePoint aims to address any data visualization requirements in your SharePoint environment.
(... to learn more, download the full PDF article...)
- Pivot Data Analysis
The pivot data analysis is the most popular data aggregation method used nowadays. It provides the needed flexibility to execute a summary report on a tabular data source and present it as a tablix.
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- Functional Division of Pivot Engines
Functionally, pivot engines can be separated by the flexibility options they provide for grouping, filtering, sorting and extracting summary values. In its simplest form a pivot engine would provide row and column grouping by a field value, sorting on a single field value + single formula and summary values based on a single field + single formula.
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- Data Source Division of Pivot Engines
In respect to the data sources supported by a pivot engine they are classified as data source specific and data source invariant. We chose to implement the Nevron Pivot Engine as a data source invariant pivot engine, because of the heterogeneous nature of the data managed by SharePoint servers and also because we needed to have full control over the pivot engine customization for higher level tasks like data visualization.
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- Pivot Charting
The adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" holds true regardless of the technology used and there is no better way to visualize a pivot tablix than a chart. Any solution that displays pivot charts always has two aspects – the charting engine used and the pivot charting model that is used to feed the data from the pivot tablix to the charting engine.
- Charting Engine
Nevron Chart for SharePoint internally uses Nevron Chart for ASP.NET as a charting engine. Nevron Chart for ASP.NET is a fast, flexible, browser compatible and time tested solution that is trusted by many Fortune 500 companies.
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- Pivot Charting Model
Using a leading charting engine is not enough to display pivot charts. The specifics of the pivot data aggregation require the development of a pivot charting model that addresses them.
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- Web Based Configuration
Any charting solution for SharePoint should clearly have a web based configuration interface. This makes it possible for all types of users to configure the chart visually and directly in the browser – which is the essence of any component of a web based CMS solution.
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- Pricing and Licensing
Nevron Chart for SharePoint offers a simple and cost-effective licensing model. It is an affordable solution, bringing the most advanced charting engine available today to your SharePoint portals. The Chart for SharePoint is licensed per Web Front End (WFE) server in your production farm environment. There is no restriction on the number of users that will be viewing the web parts or the number of designers that will be working with the Chart web part designer.
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