Product Description

With Microsoft Visio Professional 2007, IT and business people can easily visualize, explore, and communicate complex information. Complicated text and tables can be turned into Visio diagrams, which give the information at a glance. Visio diagrams are connected to their data, so it's easy to refresh and stay up to date. Information about organizational systems, resources, and processes is easily understood and acted upon with the Visio 2007 diagrams. Visio Professional 2007 offers advanced functionality, such as data connectivity and visualization features, that are not available in Visio Standard 2007.

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Visualize Complex Information

• Visio 2007 can help you visualize your business, track projects and resources, chart organizations, map networks, build diagrams and optimize systems.
• Use templates in Visio 2007 like business process flowcharts, network diagrams, workflow diagrams, database models and software diagrams.
• New templates, such as the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) template and the Value Stream Mapping template help you create a broader range of diagrams.
• Use the Getting Started window to browse templates by category (or view recent templates) and see a large preview before you open it.
• New sample diagrams are found in the Getting Started window, which can spark ideas for your own creative diagrams.
• New AutoConnect function connects shapes, evenly distributes them, and then aligns them with just one click.

Study and Explore your Information

• Connect diagrams to data sources like Excel and Access. New linking methods populate each shape property based on data value.
• New Data Graphics feature allows you to display shape data attractively. Display data fields next to a shape, in boxes below a shape or directly on top of a shape.
• Use Refresh Data feature in Visio 2007 to automatically refresh all the data in your diagrams as it changes.
• Use PivotDiagrams and create different views of the same data so you can understand the issues better.

Share Diagrams with Everyone

• The Theme Feature in Visio 2007 Pro makes it simple to format every aspect of colors and effects on a diagram with a single click.
• Save in PDF or XPS so your Visio 2007 diagram can reach even those who don't have Visio.
• Share diagrams as a Web page with navigation, reports and style sheets.
• Share Visio diagrams with others via Windows SharePoint Services. A diagram opened in SharePoint Services displays a Workspace pane displaying files, members, tasks and links.
• Multiple people can work on the same diagram with Track Markup feature, which makes each reviewer's contributions clear to the others.

Customize to Suit Your Needs

• Visualize custom solutions, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), data flow, and Windows user interface diagrams.
• The Software Development Kit (SDK) helps developers build programs, and includes extensive samples, tools, and documents to simplify the development of custom applications. It also includes a set of functions, classes, and procedures for common tasks.
• Program the Visio drawing environment in custom applications or programs with the Visio Drawing Tool. And the Visio Drawing Tool can be integrated with the host application's UI, so it becomes a smooth part of the application.
• Control features in Visio 2007 programatically, like connecting to a data source, linking shapes with data, graphically displaying data, connecting shapes automatically, monitoring mou

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