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Wednesday, April 13, 2005 11:17 AM

BPMN stencils for Visio

Visio does not natively support BPEL or BPMN, which are both commonly used in business process management applications. BPMN stands for "Business Process Modeling Notation" and is a proposed standardization for graphical notation for enterprise processes.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:35 AM

Visio Use at Microsoft: Vaca Bubble Chart for Revenue Reporting

Visio lets people communicate business information in a variety of innovative ways. One example is in use by the Visio team for revenue reporting. The Visio product management team built a dynamic bubble chart diagram to report on Visio sales by national
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Wednesday, March 16, 2005 10:00 AM

Office 2003 SP1 Whitepaper (Includes Visio 2003 SP1 Details)

I’ve posted a whitepaper from the Office Supportability Group that details what is in Office SP1, which everyone should install if you are using any Office 2003 application. SP1 is available as separate downloadable patches for OneNote, MUIs, Project
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Friday, February 18, 2005 11:20 AM

Visio Integration With MS Products: Graphical “Strategy Maps” for Balanced Scorecard

There is a whole methodology called “Balanced Scorecard” which focuses on providing access to metrics on quality, customer satisfaction, and other key business categories for success. Balanced Scorecard hinges on the axiom that “if you can’t measure it,
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Friday, February 18, 2005 10:45 AM

Visio Integration with MS Products: Export Topology to Visio From MOM Server

The customer base for the Microsoft Operations Server (MOM) overlaps pretty significantly with Visio’s customer base. Most of the IT professional desktops that use MOM have Visio installed for network diagramming, database modeling, and process diagrams.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:52 AM

Get Better at Visio Using Free MS Online Tutorials

Do you struggle with getting your shapes just right in your Visio diagrams? Do you have limited time and interest for going through a Visio user book? Here’s an easy way to update your Visio knowledge: take free online Microsoft tutorials that introduce
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Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:54 PM

Viewing Visio Files

When I gave my talk at the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference, I was surprised how few folks had heard about the Visio Viewer. Visio has shipped a free viewer for the last two releases of the product. You can download a Visio Viewer for Visio
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Monday, January 31, 2005 4:08 PM

Free 30-Day Visio 2003 Trial

There is a 30-day trial version of Visio 2003 , if you want to check it out. Almost everything I blog about is based on Visio 2003. If you have an earlier version or have never installed Visio, you can check out the trial version of the latest and greatest
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Monday, January 31, 2005 1:28 PM

Visio Use at Microsoft: New Product User Interface Design for Program Managers

Among other things, Program Managers at Microsoft design the user interface experience for the next generation of product. We work with our graphic designers determine the goals, color, font, and common design elements for screens, but in many groups
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Friday, January 28, 2005 1:40 PM

Visio Use at Microsoft: Business Process Management Automation

Visio's “visualize information” mantra applies to many different customer scenarios. In the next several blog entries, I’m going to focus on several different uses of Visio within Microsoft. I’ll show screen shots where I can (e.g., I don’t have to scrub
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Friday, January 14, 2005 12:49 PM

Visio Program Manager Job Opening

In the spirit of networking, can you recommend or refer anyone that you think may be qualified or have an interest in the position below? We are looking for candidates who would like to Join Microsoft's award-winning Visio Team within Office. Come join
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:00 PM

Visio for Information Architecture

Dan Brown , a blog reader, writes for Boxes and Arrows , an online magazine for information architects. His articles focus on tools and best practices for preparing information architecture deliverables. Dan has written some interesting articles on Visio
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Friday, January 07, 2005 4:00 PM

Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 3)

Jeff, a blog reader, noticed a cool Web service shape in a .NET article posted on MSDN . Here’s what the diagram looks like. The Web services shape isn’t a Visio shape that I’ve seen before so I contacted the authors of the article here at Microsoft.
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Monday, December 06, 2004 2:22 PM

Using Visio Diagrams in Word Documents

Geetesh Bajaj, who owns http://www.indezine.com , has a nice, quick summary of how to use Visio diagrams in Word documents in this article: http://www.indezine.com/products/visio/visioword.html . Thanks to blog reader Alexey for the heads-up! Thanks,
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Sunday, December 05, 2004 12:58 AM

Great Shapes for Conceptual Architecture Diagrams in Visio (Part 2)

Sorry that I haven’t been posting frequently since Thanksgiving -- it gets super busy around the holidays, and unfortunately, my blogging time has suffered. I can’t promise that it will get better through December, especially since I’m planning a work-free
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