Bar and Column charts are among the most widely used charting series in business visualizations. They make it easy to compare values across products, regions, periods, or other categories.

NOV Chart supports conventional, stacked, 100% percent-stacked, clustered, floating, and range-based Bar and Column charts. In addition, chart orientation can also be modfied so that series can be displayed horizontally or vertically. They can also be customized with individual fill effects, outlines, labels, and markers. In the case of 3D charts, the developer can choose from a large set of predefined lighting schemes for greater visual impact.

These bar chart variations can be used to present revenue by region, actual versus budget values, product performance, survey results, inventory levels, project progress, and many other categorical comparisons.

Pie and Doughnut charts show how individual categories contribute to a whole. They are widely used for compact summaries of market share, budget allocation, revenue composition, customer segments, expense distribution, and portfolio structure.

NOV Chart supports 2D and 3D Pie charts and their Doughnut, Semi-Pie, and Exploded Pie variations. Developers can configure all aspects of the Pie series, including exploded segments, begin/end angles, labels, and the appearance of individual data points.

One of the most challenging aspects of pie charts is the ability of the chart to annotate pie segments in a consistent way without label overlapping. NOV Chart addresses those issues using several pie chart labelling modes (Spired No Overlap and Rim No Overlap), which internally use a force-directed layout to resolve label overlapping while also aiming for the label to stay as close to the original proposed point as possible.

Business analysis often requires several related metrics to be shown together. NOV Chart can combine different series types in the same plot area, such as Columns for monthly revenue, a Line for profit margin, and an Area for a forecast or target range.

Series can use separate value axes when their units or ranges differ. This makes it possible to compare revenue with growth rate, units sold with average price, website visits with conversion rate, or actual results with budgets and forecasts.

Multiple plot areas can also be aligned and synchronized to create coordinated views in which related metrics share a common time or category axis while remaining visually distinct.

Clear labeling is essential for effective business communication. NOV Chart provides flexible data labels, axis labels, chart titles, legends, tooltips, and annotations that can display values, percentages, category names, series names, dates, or custom text.

NOV Chart provides a two-stage automatic data-label layout system. Initial positioning selects suitable locations around each data point, while label adjustment moves intersecting labels apart. The layout can also protect data points from being covered and remove labels when a suitable non-overlapping position cannot be found.

Legends can be populated automatically from series or manually with custom items, and can represent multiple series or charts. Constant lines, stripes, scale sections, and custom labels can highlight product launches, campaign periods, targets, deadlines, and exceptional results without modifying the underlying dataset.

NOV Chart includes built-in tools for exploring business data interactively. Users can zoom into a time period or category range, pan across the plot area, and navigate larger datasets using axis scrollbars and mouse-wheel zooming.

Tooltips, axis cursors, trackball interaction, hit testing, and data-point selection make it possible to inspect exact values and identify the series, category, or observation beneath the pointer. These capabilities are useful for dashboards in which users need to move quickly from an overview to a detailed examination of individual results.

Application code can respond to selections and chart events to update supporting tables, filters, detail panels, or related charts, enabling coordinated analysis and drill-down workflows.

NOV Chart can be combined with NOV Gauge, NOV Grid, NOV Diagram and NOV Rich Text Editor to build complete business dashboards and executive scorecards. A single view can present detailed charts alongside headline KPIs, targets, status indicators, and raw tabular information.

Dashboards can monitor sales performance, operational efficiency, financial results, customer activity, project status, service levels, inventory, or any other measurable business process.

The flexible layout system supports responsive layouts, high res displays, and WYSIWYG printing out of the box.

NOV Chart can be used alongside NOV Rich Text Editor, NOV Diagram, and the other controls in the suite to generate programmatic business reports containing charts, tables, KPIs, diagrams, and formatted explanatory content.

Because the NOV controls can operate on any .NET Core server, they are well suited for automated report generation on AWS, Azure, Docker, and other ASP.NET Core-compatible environments. Reports can be created on demand or produced as part of scheduled business processes.

Charts can be printed or exported to raster formats such as PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, and TIFF, as well as vector formats such as SVG, PDF, WMF, EMF, and EMF+. Output can be written to a file or memory stream for use in presentations, management reports, websites, email summaries, and high-resolution printing.