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VisualForce Charting in Salesforce

As salesforce has given us the functionality of report and dashboard to create chart then what is the use of visualforce charting?. In some situations existing functionality of salesforce can not meet our requirement properly . Suppose there is a requirement to compose custom pages that combine charts and data tables in ways that are more useful to our organization.In that case visual force charting is useful.There are also other way to meet this requirement. We can use Google chart Api for this.In my previous post I have explained. Visualforce  charting gives you an easy way to create customized business charts, based on data sets you create directly from SOQL queries, or by building the data set in your own  Apex code. By combining and configuring individual data series, you can compose charts that display your data in ways meaningful to your organization. Visualforce  charts are rendered client-side using JavaScript. This allows charts to be animated and visual...