If you have gone shopping for a web application recently, you would have noticed how a majority of them talk about the all-conquering dashboard they have while trying to lure you. And not without good reason. A dashboard is your handle to everything you have hired that app to do, and a good dashboard an easy-to-grip one.

What makes a dashboard good, you ask? A whole bunch of things, and then some more. But fundamentally, users want their dashboards to be clean, provide context like targets and benchmarks and be customizable. And in this post, we will take you through 5 web apps whose dashboards we find to be highly inspiring.
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javascript charts server side exportYou may have often wanted to export charts as images from the backend and email them to users, especially to senior management, who love getting insightful charts & dashboards delivered straight to their inbox. Or maybe you’ve wanted to automate these reports for convenience. While we have your back covered with our server-side Export Handlers for various technologies, we realize that these still require client-side rendering using a browser, which can sometimes be a hassle. Also, recently we’ve been getting requests for a way to export charts without having to render them at client-side. This got us thinking about how to do this in a way that is simple, and yet, works across all server-side scripting languages. Read the rest of this entry »

Our love for good ideas

March 5, 2013 News & Announcements
Our love for good ideas

This March, we are showing our love as sponsors for two great events, Startup Festival and The Goa Project, both in their first editions.

Startup Festival is a 4-day event with an aim to make Bangalore one of the top ten startup hubs in the world. We believe the time for Indian software products to make an impact on the world at large has come…

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Embracing Raphaël: A Look in the Rearview Mirror

February 28, 2013 News & Announcements

In this series of blog posts titled ‘Embracing Raphaël’, we’re taking you behind the scenes, giving you a glimpse of the nuts and bolts that power FusionCharts products, sharing our perspective on the technological shift that’s happened in the data visualization industry over the past few years, and how it’s influenced our products.

If you’ve read our ‘Breaking the Ice’ page…

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5 startup careers pages that we absolutely love

February 25, 2013 Showcase

We recently redesigned our Careers page. The thing is data visualization is evolving at is fastest pace ever, and so are we. And to keep evolving, we need the smartest people we can find to come work with us. So a careers page that sums up our vision, the everyday challenges we work on and our culture, and does it all in a oh-my-god-I-am-getting-goosebumps way was a only natural first…

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Got a fugly dashboard? The FusionCharts Clinic is here to help.

February 19, 2013 Charting Guidelines

We hate ugly. 0.0376% more than you do. And in our aim to make the world more delightful, or at least a tiny little corner of it, we proudly present to you the FusionCharts Clinic. Bring in the dark spots, rashes, weight problems or the self-confidence issues your dashboard has, and we will cure it for you. Starting this month, we will pick one dashboard every…

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Not Just Another Pie In The Sky now available on Kindle

February 13, 2013 News & Announcements

Last October, we completed a decade of being in business. And with that we released a book on our entire journey, aptly titled Not Just Another Pie In The Sky. PDF only to begin with, it is now available on Kindle as well at $5.99. So go ahead, get yourselves a copy and let us know what you think of it.

What’s the book about?
FusionCharts was started…

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Chart you are drunk, go home

February 6, 2013 Fun

We love the Internet for all the funnies it brings to us. So much so that we had listed out all the funnies we overdose on every day. And the latest one to catch our fancy is the “Go home, you’re drunk” meme.

While we go “lol! rofl” at all the memes, we had some “go home, you’re…

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