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Charts for SharePoint 2010
IntroductionThis report provides with you the various options
for generating simple charts from SharePoint list. The
evaluation was done on the basis on the following
y Various Chart options required by the organization.
y Less dependency on technical team
y Attractive end user displays/dashboards
y Easiness to configure
Other Reporting/BI options in SharePoint
SQL Server Reporting ServicesUse SQL Server Reporting Services
to deliver reports that publish at
regular intervals and on-demand. Its also suitable where report
requirements are well established
and customers are not always familiar with the underlying data
set.
Use PerformancePoint Services for creating dashboards,
scorecards, and key performance
indicators (KPIs) that help deliver a summarized view of
business a performance. The dashboard is a
point of entry to drill-down analysis for driving agility and
alignment across an organization.
PerformancePoint Services gives users integrated analytics for
monitoring, analyzing, and reporting.
PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint: You can combine native
Excel 2010 functionality with the
PowerPivot in-memory engine to allow users to interactively
explore and perform calculations on
large data sets.Use PowerPivot for Excel when you want to
quickly manipulate millions of rows of
data into a single Excel workbook for ad-hoc reports.
Excel Services: Use Excel Services when an end user or analyst
wants to share content with multiple
persons across an organization. It provides a mechanism for
taking authored content in Excel 2010
and making it available in a browser.Excel Services is also used
when an end user or analyst has
generated a model that can be widely used (such as a mortgage
calculator). In both cases, Excel
Services lets the author publish targeted content without making
the underlying intellectual
property available to consumers. Excel 2010: Use Excel Services
to give users browser-based access
to a server-calculated version of an Excel spreadsheet.Use
Office Excel 2010 and Excel Services to
view, refresh, and interact with analytic models connected to
data sources, and for analysis,
filtering, and presentation of locally stored data.
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Chart Web Part (CWP) - Issues and Challenges
The initial evaluation was done on Chart Web part which is the
out of the box reporting options
available from SharePoint. Though it allows you to quickly
create static and dynamic charts for your site
without a line a code, it has many limitations. For features
like Group By these posts says clearly there is
no straight forward solution using CWP.
Discussions on known issues in Microsoft.com
y
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/lv-LV/sharepoint2010general/thread/ccae8a6b-c1de-
499e-8ce8-f15d1fd5a16a
y
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/sharepoint2010general/thread/cb394ac5-52c5-
4408-8183-b16364667259
Workarounds
There are some workarounds without help of programmer. The
workaround mentioned here will allow
creating chart with counts of item in a group. But again it
displays only count and in case if we need sum
/average of those items this approach has limitation
http://www.sqlmusings.com/2009/06/05/creating-reports-from-sharepoint-lists-using-sql-server-
reporting-services-ssrs/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/nl-NL/sharepointexcel/thread/3c0e7880-e588-4be9-93d0-
2d2329386262
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/217d7145-06f6-484c-
b576-0eca03035ca4
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/eu/sharepoint2010setup/thread/13f254ee-6eb3-4545-
81e5-05048cbea553
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The other options are to involve technical team to configure SSR
services and generate summary data
using event receivers.
https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/eusp/Pages/SharePoint-2010-Pie-Chart-with-Counts
.aspx
Third Parties
As here the priority here is to enable business user to
configure the charts of their choice themselves
best option is to go with third-party tools. Based on an initial
Quick research on Google following are the
popular ones.And please find the details below.
http://wyly.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/adding-graphs-bar-and-pie-charts-to-sharepoint/
References/Other Related Useful links
y
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=14834
y
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/introduction-to-the-report-center-
HA010174199.aspx
y
http://www.componentsource.com/features/charting-graphing/sharepoint/inde
x.html
y
http://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/research-reports/19-research-reports/1625-sharepoint-
2010-evaluation-guide.html
y
http://www.aisn.net/blog/index.php/2011/11/25/sharepoint-2010-most-popular-third-party-
apps/
y http://www.sharepointreviews.com/component/jreviews/search
Product Vendor Type
Price, US
$ Licensing
Free
Trial
Dundas Chart for SharePoint Dundas Wepparts $1,999.00 Per Server
Yes
Collabion charts Fusion Charts Webparts $2,999.00Per Server
for intranet Yes
Google Chart Web Part
Amrein
Engineering Weppart $0.00 free Yes
Nevron Chart for SharePoint Nevron Weppart $1,239.00 yes
Chart Plus Web Part Bamboo Solutions Weppart $995.00 Per Server
Yes
Studio for SharePoint Component One Weppart $1,795.00 yes
Free Fusion Chart for Sharepoint
charts4sharepoint
- Codeplex Weppart $0.00 free Yes
ChartUsingGoogleVisualizationAPI Google Chart Tools Java Script
$0.00 free Yes
