Overview

Microsoft® Office Visio Professional 2003 for Windows gives business and technical users the power to visualize and communicate ideas, information, and systems. Use the simple, flexible tools in Visio 2003 to easily create business and technical charts and graphics that capture your inspiration and communicate it with impact. Can help users to document, design, and communicate complex processes and systems clearly so they can collaborate effectively and take more effective action. Visio 2003 enables easy assembly of diagrams through dragging pre-defined Microsoft SmartShapes symbols coupled with powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is o­n a local machine or the Web.

Microsoft® Office Visio Professional includes specific tools to support the diagramming needs of business professionals, project managers, sales and marketing professionals, operations management, IT professionals, software developers, database and Web site administrators, facilities managers, and engineers. Improve systems and processes by turning data from existing applications into interactive diagrams, helps easily create business and technical diagrams to think through, better understand, and design ideas, processes and systems. Diagrams created in Visio help you communicate information clearly, concisely and effectively in a way that text and numbers alone can not. Provide valuable insights into existing technical systems and help individuals and teams more effectively develop new o­nes. When used to augment text and numbers, Visio diagrams make a message more concise, help people remember main points, and transcend cultural and technical barriers.

Main Features

• Easy-to-use, integrated environment. Visio Professional provides a familiar Microsoft Office environment and many Office features that become productive quickly.
• Communicate Clearly and Effectively. Quickly and easily visualize existing systems, thanks to integration with many Microsoft technologies. 
• Visualize and communicate ideas, information, and systems. Improve systems and processes by turning data from existing applications into interactive diagrams.
• Create business and technical diagrams to think through, better understand, and design complex ideas, processes and systems.
• Diagrams created in Visio help to communicate information clearly, concisely and effectively in a way that text and numbers alone can not and share information. Create visually rich diagrams for maximum impact o­n your audience. Easily Understand Concepts, Processes, and Relationships.
• Integrated local or o­nline shape searching. Easily assemble diagrams by dragging pre-defined Microsoft SmartShapes® symbols.
• Use tools designed for specific professional disciplines for business and technical diagramming requirements throughout your organization.
• Generate common diagram types from existing data. Access context-sensitive help and task-specific templates that are updated regularly from the Web.
• Share diagrams in workspace files o­n your teams Microsoft Windows® SharePoint™ Services site.
• Annotate diagrams more naturally using digital ink o­n the Tablet PC.
• Track reviewers comments and changes to shapes and digital ink using the new review mode.
• Publish and share diagrams o­n the Web with improved Save as Web Page functionality.
• Import and export diagrams in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, a new XML-based standard for Web graphics.
• Integrate and Automate Systems and Processes.
• Do more sophisticated work, improve comprehension, and increase productivity to make an impact o­n your business.
• Integrate business processes and systems by extracting data from your Visio diagrams and importing it to Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server™, XML, and other formats.
• Incorporate Visio into powerful Microsoft .NET connected software to address specific business needs.
• Embed Visio drawing controls in line-of-business (LOB) applications built using .NET connected software or the Microsoft Windows® operating system.
• Context-sensitive help and links to task-specific templates o­nline.
• Wizards for generating diagrams from existing data.
• Create and modify diagrams more quickly.
• Improve productivity. Among other things you can now rotate shapes without switching to a special rotation mode select and rotate multiple shapes more easily and print selected portions of a diagram. In addition the shape search feature is now always open to help you quickly find the shape you want.
• Build powerful connected solutions.
• Incorporate Visio 2003 into solutions that take advantage of xml web services and microsoft .net connected software for connecting people information systems and devices.
• Connect your diagrams to important business information to enhance understanding and enable more decisive action.
• Access improved support in other locales and languages.
• Available in two new languages polish and czech for a total of 17 languages including enhanced support for Asian and bidirectional text.

System Requirements

• Hard Disk
  

  210 MB.

  
  
• Memory
  128 MB of RAM or above.
  
  
• Processor
  Pentium 233 Mhz or higher processor; Pentium III recommended.
  
  
• Platform
  WIN 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3) / XP or later operating system.