MicroCharts - Charts Reduced to the Max!
MicroCharts enables you to understand complex relationships in your data with sparklines. Invented by information design guru, Edward Tufte, sparklines are tiny charts with an intensity of visual distinctions comparable to words and letters. When placed in an Excel cell, sparklines dramatically improve data visualization for fast, effective parallel comparisons.
The professional tool set for Excel dashboards. It allows you to build effective Excel dashboards. The MicroCharts Professional Edition comprises a set of formulas to build monochrome in-cell charts, a rich set of colored in-cell charts and an intuitive formatting interface.
MicroCharts for Excel:
MicroCharts enhances your Excel chart library with sparklines, bullet graphs and other in-cell charts. Charts are created from MicroCharts fonts including bars, line segments and pies. A chart is represented as text that is formatted with the MicroCharts fonts. Dynamic chart formulas update your charts when a dependent cell value changes.
MicroCharts for Excel Dashboards:
MicroCharts is perfectly suited for management dashboards and makes Excel a first choice dashboard tool. Build your Excel dashboard with MicroCharts’ bullet graphs and sparklines.
Stephen Few invented the bullet graph as a replacement for dashboard gauges and speedometers. Its linear design provides a rich display of key performance figures in the smallest of spaces.
Here an Excel dashboard which combines Microchart’s bullet graphs and sparklines:
This display shows 96 values: 6 bullet graphs for 6 key figures and 6 sparklines. The small multiple design allows you to compare the trend of the ten key figures in the last 12 months. The dashboard consumes less screen space than the speedometer dashboard but provides 100 times more information! The user easily can detect patterns and exceptions.
MicroCharts for Microsoft OLAP:
Use MicroCharts on top of Microsoft Analysis Services to effectively visualize key performance indicators and display trends or patterns.
This is a typical Excel KPI report using data from Microsoft Analysis Services 2005:
Now view the same report with MicroCharts:
MicroCharts gives you a better understanding of key performance indicators. Historical trends are displayed as sparklines; the more conventional arrow, in comparison, only shows the figure for the previous period.
MicroCharts for Smart Devices:
The BonaVista MicroCharts Smart Phone classes allow you to build a SmartPhone dashboard with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Just drag and drop some label controls on you smart phone form and initialize the labels with the MicroCharts Smart Phone classes.
MicroCharts User Interface:
The MicroCharts formatting interface contains 13 dialog pages for customizing the format of your MicroCharts. Just double click your formula to open the formatting interface.
MicroCharts SDK:
If you are a relational or OLAP database vendor with an Excel add-in in your client portfolio, the MicroCharts SDK helps you to save time and money in adding sparklines and other in-cell charts to your portfolio. The MicroCharts SDK is a set of .NET classes, SDK documentation and the right to distribute your application royalty free. Our products visually complement your own technology, thus delivering added value for your customers.
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