We are building a lightweight reporting module; our charts need to scale and given that we could be hosting the report module on a nix platform, using the .NET charting APIs was not an option.
After a bit of digging we settled on using the Google Chart API which provides a POST API. All we needed to do to perform integration was supply the data series, labels, chart type, chart dimensions etc.
The rendered chart is displayed below
This is a great services from Google and demonstrates the power of software as a service(SaaS). Software development should be about assembling and orchestrating various services to build a cohesive feature set.
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