What is Microsoft Office Visio 2007?
Microsoft Office Visio 2007 is the latest version of Visio, replacing all previous versions (2003, 2002, 2000, 5 and earlier). It provides an advanced way of helping organisations diagram and access mission-critical business information – enabling increased integration and collaboration within organisations. With this latest version of Visio you can create data-connected diagrams that display data, are easy to refresh and dramatically increase your productivity.
Microsoft Office Visio 2007 offers:
- Improved employee productivity by enabling them to easily design complex ideas, process and systems
- Enhanced organisational efficiency by enabling complex information to be displayed and communicated more clearly
- Better integration opportunities with other business systems – encouraging greater degrees of collaboration
As a diagramming application, Visio begins where PowerPoint ends to enable users to create sophisticated diagrams - either automatically from existing data, or manually using stencils containing thousands of pre-prepared shapes. Information can be stored in shapes which can be used to generate reports.
As a development platform, Visio can be extended beyond a desktop application to create advanced visual solutions. Such development could create a visual database with user-definable reporting; a risk management solution; a proof of concept tool - or any other solution where an existing business process is missing a visual representation.
The Microsoft Office Visio product range
Office Visio 2007 is available in two stand-alone editions: Office Visio Professional and Office Visio Standard.
Microsoft Office Visio 2007 Standard is ideal for business professionals who need to create diagrams (such as flow charts, organisation charts and business process diagrams) to visualise and communicate projects and processes.
Visio 2007 Professional contains additional tools to enable technical professionals to create IT and engineering diagrams such as Web site maps, network diagrams and building layouts. It also offers advanced functionality such as data connectivity.
Why upgrade to Microsoft Office Visio 2007
From Visio 2003:
- New Autoconnect functionality, Visio will automatically connect, distribute and align shapes in diagrams for you
- New Theme feature, choose colour or effect for an entire diagram
- New data-connected graphics – convey information by adding data graphics to shapes (Office Visio Professional 2007)
- Reduce manual reentry by letting Visio keep diagrams up-to-date for you.
- New PivotDiagram template (Office Visio Professional 2007), to easily track trends, identify issues and flag exceptions.
From Visio 2002, all of the above plus:
- Template category to better support business process management diagrams
- Review mode to allow tracking of comment by individuals
- Collaborate, with Windows SharePoint Services integration, improved with Save as Web Page functionality and support for SVG format
- Capture brainstorming sessions which can then be exported to Word, Excel or XML
- Tools to make it easier for developers to incorporate Visio into solutions which utilise Microsoft. NET and XML Web Services
From Visio 2000, all of the above plus:
- Interface and functionality much more tightly integrated with the other Office applications
- Document recovery to avoid loss of work, and self-repair to fix missing or corrupt files
- Ability to easily incorporate pictures with Clip Art integration and scanner and digital camera support
- Integration with Microsoft Project
- SMS support for automated deployment
From Visio 5, all of the above plus:
- Dynamic grid to align and distribute shapes
- Workspace significantly improved with tabbed pages, dockable windows with extra functionality and shape tips
- Ability to generate Web site maps
- Windows Installer Technology to simplify deployment and management
System Requirements
- Windows XP with SP2
- PC with recommended 500 MHz Pentium III or higher
- 160 MB hard disk space available for Visio 2007 Standard and 210 MB for Visio 2007 Professional