Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007

Professionals in IT, engineering and software development benefit from the diagramming solutions targeted toward those specific domain needs in Office Visio Professional 2007. Business professionals who want to link any diagram to business data can also benefit from the new Data Link functionality in Office Visio Professional 2007.

Office Visio Professional 2007 includes all of the business diagramming tools included in Office Visio Standard 2007, plus additional comprehensive technical solutions and advanced functionality. 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
  Visualise 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 organisation
  
  
• Value Stream Map template
  Create diagrams based on Lean Methodology and visualise 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.