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Microsoft Office Visio 2003 edition comparison

The Visio 2003 product line includes Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003, Office Visio Professional 2003, and Visio Enterprise Architect. Each Visio edition delivers powerful tools tailored to meet a variety of visual communication needs for business and technical professionals.

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Visio Standard 2003

Visio Standard 2003 is best for business users who need to visualize, document, communicate, and share ideas with attention grabbing flowcharts, office layouts, organization charts, project time lines, and more.

Many features in Visio Standard 2003 streamline diagramming tasks to improve productivity and help you communicate more effectively, such as:

  • Brainstorming drawings: Export a brainstorming style diagram to a Microsoft Word document in outline form to easily organize and communicate ideas generated in meetings.

  • Organization charts: Insert pictures and dotted-line relationships into organization charts to show employee pictures and important reporting structures.

  • Calendars: Generate a calendar by importing your Microsoft Outlook calendar data to Visio 2003 for easy viewing and reference.

  • Timelines: Split activities between multiple timelines and synchronize them for clearer illustrations.

  • Business process diagramming category: Many specific tools and diagram types to support any business process documentation effort.

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Visio Professional 2003

Professionals in IT, engineering, and software development will benefit from the diagramming solutions provided for their specific needs in Visio 2003 Professional. Visio 2003 Professional includes all of the business diagramming tools of the Standard edition plus additional comprehensive technical and drawing solutions.

Use Visio Professional 2003 to create high value diagrams with features such as:

  • Networks: A rack diagram drawing type and updated network shapes.

  • Web development: An improved Web site mapping solution.

  • Software development: A Microsoft Windows XP user interface (UI) drawing type.

  • Architecture/Engineering/Facilities: Improved support for incorporating data into a building plan.

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Visio Enterprise Architect

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System includes advanced Visio-based modeling solutions for developers. Visio Enterprise Architect includes all of the solutions in Visio Professional 2003 plus full-featured database and software modeling solutions and is available only as part of Visual Studio 2005 Team System (Developer, Tester, Architect) or as part of Visual Studio Professional with MSDN Premium. Features include:

  • Advanced database modeling tools for database administrators and developers
  • Advanced software modeling tools for software developers

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Visio 2003 edition comparison

KEY:
= Feature Included

Features Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Visio Enterprise Architect

Available in 17 languages

Brainstorming diagrams

Business Process diagrams

Context-sensitive help and links to task-specific templates

XML Web services integration

Microsoft .NET programming support

Microsoft SharePoint integration

Review Mode

Tablet PC support, including digital ink

Microsoft Office 2003 look and feel

Organization charts

Property reporting

Save as Web page with navigation controls

Flowcharts

Integrated local and online shape search

Timelines and calendars

Wizards for generating diagrams from existing data

Network rack diagrams

Logical network diagrams

Software diagramming and reverse engineering

Web site mapping and documentation including auto-generation of Web site maps

Building, space, and floor plans

Database diagrams with reverse engineering of any ODBC compliant data source

Engineering diagrams–electrical, chemical and more

Directory services diagrams

Forward engineering: Database schema and Data Definition Language script generation

Customizable database report generation

Forward engineering: Generate code skeletons for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, C++, and C#

Customizable UML (version 1.2) report generation

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Visio 2003 diagram types

Diagrams created in Visio 2003 allow you to think through, organize, and better understand complex ideas, processes, and systems. The following tables compare the supported diagram types for each Visio 2003 edition—Visio Standard 2003 and Visio Professional 2003.

In this section:
Block Diagrams
Building Plan
Business Process
Charts and Graphs
Database Modeling
Electrical Engineering
Network Diagrams
Flowcharts
Maps
Mechanical Engineering
Organization Charts
Process Engineering
Project Schedule
Web Diagram
Software

Block Diagrams

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Basic Diagram Basic Diagram
Block Diagram Block Diagram
Block Diagram with Perspective Block Diagram with Perspective
Brainstorming Diagrams Brainstorming Diagram

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Building Plan

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Office Layout Office Layout
Electrical and Telecom Plan Electrical and Telecom Plan
Floor Plan Floor Plan
Home Plan Home Plan
HVAC Control Logic Diagram HVAC Control Logic Diagram
HVAC Plan HVAC Plan
Plant Layout Plant Layout
Plumbing and Piping Plan Plumbing and Piping Plan
Reflected Ceiling Plan Reflected Ceiling Plan
Security and Access Plan Security and Access Plan
Site Plan Site Plan
Space Plan Space Plan

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Business Process

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Audit Diagram Audit Diagram
Basic Flowchart Basic Flowchart
Cause & Effect Cause and Effect Diagram
Cross Functional Flowchart Cross Functional Flowchart
Data Flow Diagram Data-Flow Diagram
Fault Tree Analysis Fault Tree Analysis Diagram
Work Flow Diagram Work Flow Diagram
EPC Diagram EPC Diagram
TQM Diagram TQM Diagram

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Charts and Graphs

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Charts and Graphs Charts and Graphs
Marketing Charts and Diagrams Marketing Charts and Diagrams

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Database Modeling

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Database Modeling Diagram Database Model Diagram
Express-G Express-G
ORM Diagram ORM Diagram

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Electrical Engineering

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Basic Electrical Basic Electrical
Circuits and Logic Circuits and Logic
Industrial Control Systems Industrial Control Systems
Systems Systems

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Network Diagrams

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Basic Network Diagram Basic Network Diagram
Detailed Network Diagram Detailed Network Diagram
Active Directory Active Directory
LDAP Directory LDAP Directory
Novell Directory Services Novell Directory Services
Rack Diagram Rack Diagram

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Flowcharts

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Basic Flowchart Basic Flowchart
Cross Functional Flowchart Cross Functional Flowchart
IDEFO Diagram IDEFO Diagram
SDL SDL Diagram

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Maps

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Directional Maps Directional Map
Directional Maps – 3D Directional Map 3-D

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Mechanical Engineering

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Fluid Power Fluid Power
Part and Assembly Drawing Part and Assembly Drawing

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Organization Charts

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Organization Chart Organization Chart
Organization Chart Wizard N/A

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Process Engineering

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Piping and Instrumentation Piping and Instrumentation
Process Flow Diagram Process Flow Diagram

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Project Schedule

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Calendar Calendar
Gantt Chart Gantt Chart
PERT Chart PERT Chart
Timeline Timeline

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Web Diagram

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
Conceptual Web Site Conceptual Web Site
Web Diagram Web Diagram

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Software

KEY:
= Feature Included

Diagrams Visio Standard 2003 Visio Professional 2003 Example
COM and OLE COM and OLE
Data Flow Model Diagram Data Flow Model Diagram
Enterprise Application Enterprise Application
Jackson Jackson
Program Structure Program Structure
ROOM ROOM
Windows XP User Interface Windows XP User Interface
UML Model Diagram UML Model Diagram

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