Product Features
- Software makes it easy for IT and business professionals to visualize,
explore, and communicate complex information
- Offers advanced functionality, such as data connectivity and visualization
features, that Visio Standard 2007 does not
- Provides a wide range of templates, including business process flowcharts,
network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models, and software diagrams
- Pre-defined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and powerful search capabilities
help you locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a computer or on the
Web
- Gives you the option of saving your diagrams as Web pages complete with
navigation controls, a shape data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and
style sheet options
Product DescriptionMicrosoft Office Visio Professional 2007 makes it
easy for IT and business professionals to visualize, explore, and communicate
complex information. This software transforms complicated text and tables that
are hard to understand to Visio diagrams that communicate information at a
glance. When information is extremely complex, you run the risk of alienating
and confusing members of your business team. That's why Visio 2007 gives you a
new way to present complicated data so that everyone can absorb and understand
it. Instead of static pictures, you can create data-connected Visio diagrams
that display data, are easy to refresh, and dramatically increase your
productivity.
Use the wide variety of available diagrams to understand,
act on, and share information about organizational systems, resources, and
processes throughout your enterprise. Put simply, Visio diagrams maximize the
impact of important business information in ways words and numbers alone never
could.
Two Stand-Alone Editions
Visio 2007 is available in two stand-alone
editions: Office Visio Professional and Office Visio Standard. Visio Standard
2007 has the same basic functionality as Visio Professional 2007 and includes a
subset of its features and templates. Visio Professional 2007 offers advanced
functionality, such as data connectivity and visualization features, that Visio
Standard 2007 does not.
Quickly Find and Use New Templates
Visio 2007 includes specific
tools to support the diverse diagramming needs of IT and business professionals
and lets you create a broader range of diagrams with new templates, such as the
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template and the Value
Stream Mapping template. Use the predefined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols and
powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is saved on a
computer or on the Web. You can also save time by quickly accessing templates
you use often. In the new Getting Started window, find the template you need by
browsing simplified template categories and using large template previews.
Locate the templates you used recently by using the new Recent Templates view in
the Getting Started window.
Get Inspired by Sample Diagrams
If you're not sure how to best
display your important data, Visio 2007 can help by making it easy to find new
sample diagrams. Simply open the new Getting Started window and use the new
Samples category. View sample diagrams that are integrated with data to get
ideas for creating your own diagrams, to realize how data provides more context
for many diagram types, and to determine which template you want to use.
Display Data Attractively in Diagrams
The Data Graphics feature
lets you display data attractively in diagrams, and you can choose from a number
of data formatting options. With a single click, display data fields as callouts
next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, and place fields of
data directly on top or to the side of a shape. You also have the option of
easily refreshing data in diagrams, thanks to the new Refresh Data feature. If
data conflicts arise, easily resolve them by using the Refresh Conflicts task
pane.
Connect Shapes Without Drawing Connectors
You don't have to be a
professional graphic designer to build interesting diagrams--Visio 2007 gives
you the tools to connect shapes without drawing connectors. The new AutoConnect
functionality connects shapes, distributes them evenly, and aligns them for
you--all with only one click. In fact, when you move the connected shapes, they
stay connected and the connectors automatically reroute between the shapes.
Identify Trends and Issues
One of the benefits of creating diagrams
is that you can more readily identify trends and issues and then act on them.
First, you might choose to make your diagrams even smarter by linking them to
data to provide a more complete picture of a process, project, or system. Then
it's a snap to visually explore information to identify key trends, issues, and
exceptions, and then act on them. Finally, you can analyze, drill down into, and
create multiple views of business data to gain insight into it.
Reach a Broader Audience
The Theme feature in Visio 2007 makes it
easy to format the colors and effects (text, line, fill, shadow, and connector
formatting) in an entire diagram with a single click. It even uses the same
color palette as other 2007 Microsoft Office system programs so that you can
design professional-looking Visio diagrams that match your presentations and
documents. New 3-D Workflow shapes, which were designed with the new Theme
feature in mind, command attention, while the option to save in PDF or XPS file
format can help you reach a broader audience. You can even view Visio diagram
attachments from within Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.
Automatically Connect Diagrams to Data Sources
With the new Data
Link functionality, Visio 2007 gives you the option of automatically connecting
diagrams to data sources, such as Excel 2007 spreadsheets or Access 2007
databases. You can also save time associating data with shapes by using
intuitive new linking methods, which populate each shapes' properties (also
known as shape data) with data values. For example, you can link all the shapes
in a diagram to rows of data from connected data sources by using the new
Automatic Link Wizard.
Effectively Track Reports
Visio 2007 also gives you the flexibility
to generate reports directly from within Microsoft Office Project and Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server that track project tasks, owners, roles,
responsibilities, and depict complex project ownership structures. And it's no
problem to add new details as they become available because Visio 2007
automatically modify the reports as project information changes.
Share Diagrams With Others
Visio 2007 gives you the option of
saving your diagrams as Web pages complete with navigation controls, a shape
data viewer, reports, choice of image format, and style sheet options. On
intranets and extranets, anyone who's using Visio Viewer with Windows Internet
Explorer can view the diagrams from within Internet Explorer. Additionally,
shared workspace functionality supports collaboration with Microsoft Windows
SharePoint Services. Visio diagrams saved on a Windows SharePoint Services sites
can be opened directly in Visio 2007 from the site, and even checked in and out
from within Visio 2007. Specifically, when a diagram is opened from a Windows
SharePoint Services site, Visio 2007 opens a Shared Workspace task pane that
contains all of the information in the workspace, including other files,
members, tasks, and links.
Easy Collaboration
With the Track Markup feature, multiple people
can collaborate on the same Visio diagram. Generally used for reviewing a
diagram and incorporating feedback, Track Markup helps make each reviewer's
contributions clear to other reviewers and to the person who eventually
incorporates the revisions in the diagram.
Customize and Extend Visio 2007
You have the option of extending
Visio 2007 programmatically or by integrating it with other applications to fit
your industry-specific scenarios or unique organizational requirements.
Visualize custom solutions with Visio 2007 diagrams, such as Unified Modeling
Language (UML), data flow, and Microsoft Windows user interface diagrams, by
using templates in the Software and Database category. The Visio 2007 software
development kit (SDK) includes extensive samples, tools, and documentation to
simplify and speed up development of custom applications. The SDK provides a set
of reusable functions, classes, and procedures for the most common Office Visio
2007 development tasks and includes support for a broad range of development
languages, including Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET,
Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft Visual C++.
Visio Drawing Control
Using the Visio Drawing Control, developers
can embed and program the Visio drawing environment in custom applications. This
opens up new opportunities for solution integration, making it easy to include
the power of Visio 2007 in any smart client application. Because the Visio
Drawing Control can be integrated with the host application's UI, developers can
take advantage of Visio drawing functionality as a smooth part of their
application without having to develop similar functionality themselves. In
addition, you can control several new features in Visio 2007 programmatically,
including connecting to a data source, linking shapes to data, displaying linked
data graphically, connecting shapes to one another automatically (AutoConnect),
monitoring and filtering mouse-drag actions, and applying theme colors and theme
effects. Each of these features has an associated application programming
interface (API) that makes it possible to control the feature programmatically
and new objects and members associated with it in the Visio object model.
Thanks to all these options, Visio 2007 gives you the power to revolutionize
the way you present information to colleagues and clients, which can positively
affect productivity and your bottom line.
System Requirements:
- Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server 2003 with
SP1, or later operating system
- 500 MHz processor or higher
- 256 RAM or higher
- 1.5 GB; a portion of this disk space will be freed after installation if
the original download package is removed from the hard drive
- CD-ROM or DVD drive
- 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor
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