ICharts

iCharts is a U.S. based SaaS company providing an easy and affordable online service for interactive chart creation and social sharing. iCharts offerings range from free consumer subscriptions to high-end business subscriptions. The company’s vision is to empower the world to explore and share data by enabling the free flow of visual data among data owners, media, business and consumers.

Founded in 2008^[1] by Seymour Duncker, Tyron Montgomery and Rajesh Setty, iCharts has become the leading chart processing, creation and distribution platform for business customers that include Fortune 500 companies and the market research firms that serve them. iCharts is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and has offices in Munich, Germany and Pune, India.

iCharts reduces complex chart creation to a few intuitive drag'n'drop actions. The iCharts service includes a clipping capability, iCharts Studio for easy chart creation and the iCharts Gallery for storing and organizing unlimited charts.

Product Offerings

The service includes:

• Clip This Chart: Allows users to clip interesting charts for private storage in their free iCharts account and for sharing online. Users can also download the chart image in any standard document such PowerPoint or Microsoft Word.
• iCharts Gallery: Each iCharts account has a Gallery where users can clip, store, organize and share their charts.
• iCharts Studio: Users can create interactive charts online in minutes with zero programming. iCharts Studio lets users easily drag and drop data into iCharts templates using data from Excel or Google spreadsheets or from any data source using the iCharts free API.
• Publish: Users can click the “Publish” button to generate the embed code that can be used to generate a public page where others can find their charts, or they can use the embed code on their own website or blog.
• Flexible Formatting: iCharts Studio includes pre-selected chart templates and allows flexible formatting of fonts, colors and other visual charting elements including comments and annotations.
• Built-in SEO: All iCharts-published charts are automatically SEO-friendly, so search engines can find the metadata in each published chart. Publishing data online using iCharts boosts SEO value dramatically.
• Automatic Updating of Data: Publish data online using iCharts, and when you change the data, your chart will be updated automatically—whenever users refresh their screens.

iCharts API

With the iCharts API, organizations with big public data sets can use the free API to connect their data to the iCharts Chart Creation and Distribution service. When data is updated in the database, iCharts will find the data and update the chart when online pages are refreshed wherever the charts are embedded. In 2008, selected from more than 1,000 applicants, iCharts was selected as one of the 52 best start-ups to the industry’s most influential VCs, corporations, entrepreneurs and press at the TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco.^[2][3] The iCharts technology was launched on September 9, 2008.

External Links & References

• iCharts Portal
• "2 startups on track to win best in show", San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Sep 2008
• "iCharts turns your boring spreadsheet into a flashy chart", cnet news, 09 Sep 2008

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