Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 - What's New for Developers in Feature area of Enterprise Portal

What can you do?

A new User Control option was added called Chart Control. A Chart Control enables you to display chart data in Enterprise Portal. A Chart Control can display data from a Report Data Provider (RDP) class or from an analysis cube.

Why is this important?

A Chart Control is optimized for performance because everything needed for the chart to display is contained in the data set. The Chart Control does not need a Reporting Services server to render the chart which improves the performance.

The alternative is to use Reporting Services to render charts on Enterprise Portal pages. The performance issues become problematic when role centers have multiple charts to render.

How was this performed in previous versions?

In Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, you can use Visual Studio tools for Microsoft Dynamics AX to create a chart report that uses Reporting Services.

My above blog is based on Microsoft's Official information.
 

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