Microsoft Office Visio 2007 is the diagramming tool of choice for business and technical professionals who need to quickly and easily visualize, explore, and communicate information. With Office Visio 2007, creating a wide range of diagrams such as business process diagrams, value stream maps, TQM diagrams, work flow diagrams, and cause and effect diagrams is a snap.
With Office Visio 2007, easily diagram complex processes that conform to particular standards such as Lean or Six Sigma. Office Visio Professional 2007 includes a variety of business process shapes so your diagrams look exactly the way you want. Easily collaborate with colleagues to create detailed process diagrams and use them as a key element in streamlining your processes.
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Create a wide variety of process diagrams
Create a wide range of business process diagrams
Office Visio 2007 includes shapes designed for basic flowcharts, cross-functional flowcharts, cause and effect diagrams, data flow diagrams, audit diagrams, EPC (Event-driven Process Chain) diagrams, fault tree analysis diagrams, TQM (Total Quality Management) diagrams, and work flow diagrams. Choose from several professional-looking shapes to design diagrams that conform to Six Sigma and ISO 9000 standards.
Let Office Visio create the process flow for you
With just a few clicks, Office Visio can connect, align, and evenly distribute shapes in your business process diagrams. Office Visio can automatically connect shapes as you drag, drop, and rearrange them onto the drawing page, or connect existing shapes that are already on the drawing page.Create the process flow yourself
For when you need to take control of the precise positioning of connectors in your diagrams, Office Visio 2007 provides many intuitive connection methods that offer various levels of control. Utilize the arrow and specialty connector feature
In Office Visio 2007, connectors can be simple 1-D lines with arrowheads, 2-D arrows, or even specialty shapes for standards based diagrams like TQM and Six Sigma. You can even add text to connectors to describe different routes in a flow.Document work flows with new 3-D shapes
Use the improved Work Flow Diagram template and new 3-D Work Flow shapes in Office Visio 2007 to diagram information flows, work flows, business process automation, business process re-engineering, and accounting, management, and human resources tasks. You can also use shapes to document Six Sigma and ISO 9000 processes.Map value streams
Document Lean Manufacturing processes using the Value Stream Map template in Office Visio Professional 2007. Use the Value Stream Map to then identify and eliminate waste, and achieve high levels of efficiency. You can use the included shapes in Visio Professional 2007 to create current state and future state diagrams to compare and pinpoint ways to reduce waste.Document ITIL best practices
Office Visio Professional 2007 also includes the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) template. ITIL is a framework that IT professionals use to identify and establish best practices for their IT service and incident management process flows. The ITIL Diagram template provides attractive and functional shapes to create and enhance existing diagrams that need to conform to ITIL standards.
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Customize diagram processes
Decide how the connectors look and reroute
When you move shapes in your business process diagrams, Office Visio 2007 reroutes the connectors to keep the process flow intact. Office Visio can either automatically reroute the connectors for you, or you can decide and select what looks best for the connectors in your process diagrams.Easily change business process diagram layouts
Easily rearrange individual shapes in your diagrams or change the entire layout with just a click. Specify the layout style, direction, alignment, and spacing, including the connector style and appearance. To top it off, Office Visio 2007 can even resize the drawing page to fit your diagram.Diagram and resize any businesses processes
Diagram a business process on one page and enlarge it as much as you like, or divide the process diagram onto separate pages in the same drawing file. Keep the separate sections of a TQM process linked by using Off-Page Reference shapes that can include a hyperlink to the next section of the process on another page. And, specify whether you want to keep the text in the reference shapes synchronized. Annotate processes
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Collaborate on and use process diagrams
Visually track data with each step of a process
Manually add process information, such as cost, input, output, and status to each step of a process to not only visualize your business processes but also to use your diagrams as data tracking tools. With Office Visio Professional 2007, use the new Data Link and Data Graphics features to easily link process diagrams to external data sources and visualize data by using attractive graphics. Even generate pre-formatted reports on the data that you can print or share with others.Integrate business process diagrams into other Microsoft Office applications
It’s easy to integrate Visio diagrams with other Microsoft Office files. For example, include business process diagrams in your Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations or Microsoft Office Word documents so your audience can understand complex business processes at a glance.Collaborate with colleagues
Easily collaborate with colleagues to create business process diagrams and streamline them by using revision marks to track each person’s changes. If you’re using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, easily check diagrams in and out directly from Office Visio.Convert process diagrams to other formats
Make your diagrams available to all people in your organization by saving them as Web pages and posting them to your organization’s intranet. Save Visio diagrams in PDF or XPS file format to make them more portable and to reach additional audiences. For more information, see Install and use a PDF or XPS add-in. Top of Page
Get started with Visio process diagrams
| Help and how-to |
| Create a basic flowchart |
Create flowcharts to document procedures, analyze processes, indicate work or information flow, track cost and efficiency, and more. |
| Create an audit diagram |
Audit diagrams document and analyze processes such as financial transactions and inventory management. |
| Create an EPC diagram |
EPC (Event-driven Process Chain) diagrams illustrate business process work flows and are an important component of the SAP R/3 modeling concepts for business engineering. |
| Create a TQM diagram |
Use the TQM Diagram template to create flowcharts for Total Quality Management projects. |
| Create a fault tree analysis diagram |
Fault tree analysis diagrams are commonly used to illustrate events that might lead to a failure so the failure can be prevented. |
| Create a work flow diagram |
Use the Work Flow Diagram template to create flowcharts that describe, analyze, and document the processes in an organization. |
| Create a value stream map |
Create value stream maps to identify where there is waste in manufacturing processes, and to help find ways to eliminate that waste. |
| Create an ITIL diagram |
The ITIL Diagram template in Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 provides attractive and functional shapes to create and enhance diagrams of ITIL processes. |
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