I have a java swing application used to manage inventory, sales, cash flow, cust

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I have a java swing application used to manage inventory, sales, cash flow, customers and other things of small business (generally newstands and similar business).

The application is offline, but I want to create in the website a dashboard where the users could see interesting charts and reports about its data. So probably I would create a mechanism in the offline application in order to be updating the database online day after day.

So my question is: does anyone know a good tool for developing dashboards? I don't need a complete BI tool because the users have 0% IT knowledge, I want something very simple, just like some graphics with different filters.

If possible I would prefer some free or cheap tools.

Explanation / Answer

The data sounds small. So I would recommend embedding all data in a JSONP file called by an HTML/JavaScript page that uses Google Charts to render the data.

There will be a day of programming to convert the data to JSONP and write the charts, but it is very easy coding.

Then configure a daily task that generates the JSONP every and sends it to a web server via FTP. You can easily find free hosting for static HTML/JavaScript.

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