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Bring Your Ideas to Life 4/12/2012

Visio 2010Tips and Techniques

Agenda • New Visio User Interface (Ribbon)

• New productivity features to Visio 2010

• Quick shapes

• Auto Align and Spacing

• Containers

• Process validation

• Sub process

• SharePoint designer integration

• Creating Organizational Charts from a data source

• Shape data and linking data to Visio shapes

• Creating data graphics & legends

• Data reporting

• Creating Timelines & Project Integration

• Introduction to Visio services and sample IT solutions

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DEMOVisio 2010 Tips & Techniques

Understanding Visio Services

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Content CreatorCreate Data-linked Diagramjust as in Visio 2007

Data Source• Excel Services• SharePoint Service List• SQL Server• OLEDB / ODBC

Data Consumer• Updates Data Graphics

by clicking refresh button• Data refresh can be

automated by settinginterval time

Publish “VDW” file toSharePoint Server2010

Data Consumer• Views data-linked diagram in

web browser• Can open the diagram in Visio

Import latest datato update DataGraphics

Example: Visio services for IT

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Customer Scenario – Visio services & BIVisio allows data connectivity to multiple data sources and provides valuable business insights

Putting data on diagrams makesthe information meaningful andhelps in identifying trends andexceptions at a glance

*New feature in Visio 2010

Level 1: Visio diagrams canbe connected to datasources

Level 2: Visio 2010 allowsdata-driven diagrams to bepublished to SharePointServer 2010 in real time*

NextSteps

Additional Resources

The Microsoft Visio web sitehttp://visio.microsoft.com

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