NetCharts Server Specifications
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NetCharts Server Features
Outstanding Graphics
NetCharts Server's graphs and tables provide feature depth not found elsewhere:
- Three-point auto scaling
- Up to 15 (default) axes per side, multiple scales per axis
- Overlay or stacked axes
- Sophisticated numerical formatting
- Logarithmic scales, line smoothing
- Support for internationalization
- Chart updates of up to 10ms
- Gradient fills and anti-aliasing
- Rotatable fonts
- Stylesheet support
- Vector and bitmap graphics
- Use logo/images for backgrounds, data points, and more
Dynamic Features
NetCharts Server graphs and tables can be easily configured with interactive effects:
- Default drilldown behavior reports selected element data value and position in the graph or table
- Each element of the graph or table can be explicitly bound to a URL or JavaScript method.
- The ability to easily zoom and scroll on data points.
- Just-in-time configuration using variables passed in at run time.
Stand Alone Deployment or Agile Application Development
NetCharts Server can be deployed as a standalone, specialized application server, or used in rapid application development. Additionally, NetCharts Server's sophisticated data presentation tools provide HTTP services and a robust J2EE servlet engine.
J2EE Environment
NetCharts Server can operate in a J2EE Environment in two ways - Using the J2EE toolkit or embedded within a J2EE application server.
- Our J2EE toolkit (which is packaged within NetCharts Server) is the preferred implementation in the J2EE environment. It simply installs within the application server and relays chart, table, or page requests from the J2EE application server to a running NetCharts Server.
- The NetCharts Server functions can be embedded directly within a J2EE application server.
ASP/.NET Environment
The NetCharts Server provides a toolkit for installation on an IIS server, that provides ASP and .NET programs the ability to easily relay requests for graphs, tables, and pages to the NetCharts Server.
Built-in Data and Chart Caching for High Performance Data Visualization
In data presentation applications, performance is key. Graphing is a CPU-intensive task, and too many simultaneous data requests can clog a network. To reduce unnecessary draws or data requests, NetCharts Server provides data and chart caching.
- Data cache entries consist of some set of data that can be filtered for use within one or more charts, and one or more tables. This allows one single data request to potentially populate all data presentation objects on a given page.
- NetCharts Server's developer-controlled chart caching allows multiple users requesting the same graph template, with the same exact variables to receive the same graph. Additionally, developers can configure NetCharts Server to pre-generate any number of graphs during low-load times.
Data Connectivity
NetCharts Server provides many different ways to get data into your graphs and tables with a minimum of effort:
- Pass data into the graph or table via a URL variable or HTTP request object
- Put a dataset directly into the data cache
- Use the Named Data Set (NDS) utilities to connect to a backend data source (database, XML file, CSV flat file, spreadsheet, etc) to retrieve the data.
Data Transformation
In many data presentation applications, there is a need to convert the data from the data source into a form suitable for graphing. For example, a developer may need sum the contents of a web server's access log to determine the number of visits to specific pages.
NetCharts Server's process modules are used to simplify this common need. Process Modules can be "chained" together so that the output of one module is used as the input of the next (e.g. a sum function followed by a sort). The process module feature provides:
- Many built-in aggregation and transformation functions including grouping, sorting, mathematical functions, and much more.
- Well-defined API to extend and write custom process modules.
Powerful Analytics Library
NetCharts Server supports a powerful library of over fifty analytic functions that provide real-time data calculations and statistical process controls. Users can apply sophisticated data transformations to raw or minimally processed data.
With more than fifty analytics functions, pre-built calculations and algorithms can be applied to data for rapid analysis and visualization. For example, a retail store manager could apply a Pareto function to register receipts to see a ranking of the most popular products in the store. And trend and forecasting lines can be applied to gauge future sales. Plus, pre-built Statistical Process Control (SPC) functions can determine if the store is meeting sales and/or quality expectations. Learn more about this powerful analytics library.
Intuitive Development & Administration Consoles
The NetCharts Server development console provides easy features for creating new projects, data, chart, and page templates. The development console also has links to relevant documentation, debugging utilities, toolkits, and more.
The NetCharts Server Administration Console provides administrators an easy-to-use interface for setting up security, restarting or configuring the system, installing licenses, specifying periodic tasks, and much, much more.
The Perfect Complement to NetCharts Server - NetCharts Designer
An optional add on to be used with NetCharts Server, NetCharts Designer is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) design studio that creates and manages data, graph, table, and dashboard page templates. NetCharts Designer provides everything needed to create a dashboard, PDF document, performance metrics, or business intelligence reports. After designing a project with NetCharts Designer, deploy the data presentation application to NetCharts Server with just a few keystrokes.