Infragistics has launched NetAdvantage for SharePoint 2011 Volume 1, a set of SharePoint Web Partsfor business users to build code-free dashboards to quickly visualise Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and actionable metrics.

"NetAdvantage for SharePoint enables business professionals to turn SharePoint data into an interactive and inspiring experience," said Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics.

"We've leveraged our deep knowledge of the user experience and user interface tools space to bring to market our XAML data visualisation-based Web Parts solution. With its intuitive design, business professionals can bring lines of data to life in a manner that is easily communicated and quickly understood."

"Our User Experience design team focused on configuring and binding to data with our Charts, Maps and Gauges for end users to develop dashboards in minutes with limited effort. This design focus empowers business users and helps IT and development organizations eliminate project backlog," added Guida.

In NetAdvantage for SharePoint, Infragistics introduces the Map Web Part to display data at multiple levels such as at a street, city, state, country or any geographic coordinate.
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With the Data Chart and Gauge Web Parts, users can easily extract meaning from the numbers and present clear renditions of important key performance indicators and high-end business intelligence. Chart types like the Step Area Data Chart visually depict changing values over time and can be overlaid with other chart types, such as the Spline 'curve' chart to improve user-to-data interactions and increase business productivity.

Departments can increase staff interaction and knowledge about the latest webinars, product demonstrations and customer deployments with the visual content Content Rotator Web Part. Users can point to content from more than one library, create a video 'playlist' and include common animations like "fade" or "slide-left."

The Version Timeline Web Part that translates document version history in a Document Library into a visual horizontal timeline for easy identification of the document review process.

Pricing starts at $US4995 per Web server.