Use Office Visio Professional 2007 to create high-value diagrams by using features, templates, and solutions such as:

• Data Link and Data Graphics functionality. Integrate data with diagrams to combine disparate sources of complex visual, textual, and numeric information in order to provide visual context for data and create a complete picture of a system, resource, or process. Display data fields as callouts next to a shape, position fields in boxes below a shape, or show symbols that represent data.

• PivotDiagram template. Visualize and explore your business data in hierarchical form showing data groups and subtotals. Identify the key messages in your data and visually communicate them with others in your organization.

• Value Stream Map template. Create diagrams based on Lean Methodology and visualize manufacturing processes to facilitate efficiency gains.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) template. Diagram IT service processes that conform to ITIL standards.

• Network diagram templates. Diagram logical and physical network diagrams, including rack diagrams.

• Web development templates. Create site maps of existing Web sites using templates and predefined shapes. Generate reports of site links, including broken links, or use reporting tools to identify changes in a site since it was last diagrammed.

• Software development templates. Diagram custom software solutions using the Microsoft Windows XP User Interface template, Unified Modeling Language (UML) template, and more.

• Architectural plans, engineering schematics, facilities management, and database modeling. Create various technical diagrams, such as floor, space, and site plans; engineering schematics; facilities management diagrams; database models; and many more. Office Visio Professional 2007 even includes functionality that enables you to reverse-engineer database models and software solutions.

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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. Thanks to all these options, Visio Standard 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.

Specifications

• AutoConnect functionality
• Autodesk AutoCAD capabilities
• Brainstorming diagrams
• Business process diagrams
• Clip art integration
• Context-sensitive Help and links to task-specific templates
• Flowcharts
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration
• Microsoft Office Project integration with Visio Gantt charts and timelines
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server integration through Document Workspaces
• Microsoft Visual Studio programming support, including Microsoft .NET
• Multilanguage and complete Unicode support
• Organization charts
• PDF and XPS file support1
• Review mode
• Save as Web page with navigation controls
• Shape customization
• Shape data reporting
• Microsoft Tablet PC support, including digital ink
• Theme support
• Timelines and calendars
• Wizards for generating diagrams from existing data
• Workflow shapes (3-D)
• XML Web services integration

ADDITIONAL VISIO PRO FEATURES

• Building, space, and floor plans
• Data-driven solution support (including data-related APIs)
• Data Graphics functionality
• Data Link functionality
• Database modeling diagrams with reverse engineering of any Open Database * Connectivity–compliant data source
• Directory services diagrams
• Engineering diagrams—electrical, chemical, and more
• ITIL diagrams
• Logical network diagrams
• Network rack diagrams
• PivotDiagrams
• Sample diagrams
• Software diagramming and reverse engineering
• Value stream maps
• Web site mapping and documentation including auto-generation of Web site maps

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher.
• 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher.
• 1.5 gigabyte (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
• 1024×768 or higher resolution monitor
• Microsoft Windows® XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows Server® 2003 with SP1, or later operating system.
• XML Web services integration