http://visiotoolbox.com/The latest articles from the world of visiotoolbox.(c) 2007.51/28/2010 3:03:34 AM1/28/2010 3:03:34 AMVisimation QuotePix is an add-on program for Microsoft Office Visio that provides sales people, engineers, and customers with the ability to easily generate simple estimates directly from Visio drawings. QuotePix dynamically calculates and displays quantities of the items on each Visio page.&nbsp;It accurately tracks what’s been added, subtracted, and changed in the system you are configuring to help verify that it meets your design criteria or customers’ needs.&nbsp;QuotePix generates a quote on an Excel spreadsheet tailored to your company’s branding and formatting preferences.1/28/2010 3:03:34 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=79State management for CommandBars1/28/2010 2:57:51 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=326One of Visio’s most powerful, yet least proclaimed, features is its ability to produce CAD drawings in sufficient detail for the needs of most construction projects. Whether the job requires importing or exporting AutoCAD dwg files or working within layers for different trades, Visio provides a familiar and intuitive drawing user interface and tool set.&nbsp; Additional functionality can be added to facilitate completing the requirements of any design/build construction process.<br /><br />PoolDraw is a Visio add-in, available since 1995, that is used by thousands of pool builders and landscapers worldwide for backyard projects and commercial waterscape installations. It allows designers to produce compelling 2D and 3D presentation drawings from which dimensions and specifications are captured for pricing and costing. The sales drawings are then easily modified for construction purposes.<br /><br />The following outline of the program illustrates how basic Visio functionality is leveraged to complete steps in the job sales, construction and administration processes:1/27/2010 11:44:03 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=88Together with Microsoft‘s MCS team and the MTC Munich we developed a first proof of concept for a customer interested in Knowledge Management. The goal was to replace HTML generated from Visio / SemTalk by a more dynamic viewer compared to plain HTML1/27/2010 11:09:07 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=82One of the most important aspects of making change happen in the organization is the ability to run a change management workshop. The following outline should help you successfully deliver one of these workshops in your own organization. This <strong><em>Best Practice Article </em></strong>is based on the successful delivery of hundreds of these workshops by Harvard Computing Group. Take advantage of a tried and true agenda and format today.4/9/2009 4:49:37 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=161Visimation QuotePix is an add-on program for Microsoft Office Visio that provides sales people, engineers, and customers with the ability to easily generate simple estimates directly from Visio drawings. QuotePix dynamically calculates and displays quantities of the items on each Visio page. It accurately tracks what’s been added, subtracted, and changed in the system you are configuring to help verify that it meets your design criteria or customers’ needs. QuotePix generates a quote on an Excel spreadsheet tailored to your company’s branding and formatting preferences.4/9/2009 4:39:03 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=185One of Visio’s most powerful, yet least proclaimed, features is its ability to produce CAD drawings in sufficient detail for the needs of most construction projects. Whether the job requires importing or exporting AutoCAD dwg files or working within layers for different trades, Visio provides a familiar and intuitive drawing user interface and tool set.  Additional functionality can be added to facilitate completing the requirements of any design/build construction process.<br /><br />PoolDraw is a Visio add-in, available since 1995, that is used by thousands of pool builders and landscapers worldwide for backyard projects and commercial waterscape installations. It allows designers to produce compelling 2D and 3D presentation drawings from which dimensions and specifications are captured for pricing and costing. The sales drawings are then easily modified for construction purposes.<br /><br />The following outline of the program illustrates how basic Visio functionality is leveraged to complete steps in the job sales, construction and administration processes:4/9/2009 4:29:07 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=193Together with Microsoft‘s MCS team and the MTC Munich we developed a first proof of concept for a customer interested in Knowledge Management. The goal was to replace HTML generated from Visio / SemTalk by a more dynamic viewer compared to plain HTML4/9/2009 4:20:44 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=188Visimation QuotePix is an add-on program for Microsoft Office Visio that provides sales people, engineers, and customers with the ability to easily generate simple estimates directly from Visio drawings. QuotePix dynamically calculates and displays quantities of the items on each Visio page. It accurately tracks what’s been added, subtracted, and changed in the system you are configuring to help verify that it meets your design criteria or customers’ needs. QuotePix generates a quote on an Excel spreadsheet tailored to your company’s branding and formatting preferences.4/9/2009 4:18:39 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=299One of the most important aspects of making change happen in the organization is the ability to run a change management workshop. The following outline should help you successfully deliver one of these workshops in your own organization. This <strong><em>Best Practice Article </em></strong>is based on the successful delivery of hundreds of these workshops by Harvard Computing Group. Take advantage of a tried and true agenda and format today.4/9/2009 4:13:55 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=275http://visiotoolbox.com/The latest articles from the world of visiotoolbox.(c) 2007.51/29/2010 1:02:44 AM1/29/2010 1:02:44 AM(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A complete solution developed in close association with an ISV (L&amp;T EmSyS) for providing light control facilities for Building Management Solution. The solution displays the layout of lights on each floor of the building and has controls to manage remotely. This helps in saving electricity expenses for customers and aids in their “GO GREEN” initiatives (2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This solution is built on end-to-end Microsoft platform and includes pull-through for Windows Server, SQL server apart from Visio (3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is the FIRST solution case study across the World to help customers reduce electricity expenses.1/29/2010 1:02:44 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3451/28/2010 5:06:22 AM1/28/2010 5:06:22 AMStreamline Solutions develops business management software for the printing, direct mail and fulfillment industries. Their solutions help companies in estimating, inventory control, customer support, purchasing, factory scheduling, postage and all areas of financial accounting. Its software, marketed as PrintStream, is installed at more than 150 sites in the United States, Canada and Australia, with anywhere from 50 to 2,000 users at each site. See how NetZoom and Visio helped Streamline improve organizational processes and sales performance with superior network designs and presentations.1/28/2010 5:06:22 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=781/28/2010 3:25:50 AM1/28/2010 3:25:50 AM1/28/2010 3:25:50 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3441/27/2010 3:24:59 AM1/27/2010 3:24:59 AM1/27/2010 3:24:59 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3424/18/2009 6:54:27 AM4/18/2009 6:54:27 AM3M is a diversified technology company with a yearly revenue of nearly U.S.$23 billion. In 2004–2005, the company‘s Medical Division was not achieving its new product launch goals. Lack of a standard, simple format for communicating project status was creating project delays. To solve this problem, the division turned to an intuitive project scorecard solution, which it created with an integration of the Microsoft® Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 drawing and diagramming software. The EPM solution maintains project information while Office Visio pulls the data into color-coded project scorecards that are easy to understand and share. Since using the integrated solution, the division has doubled its milestone attainment, improved business insight, simplified communications, and saved significant time on project status tasks.4/18/2009 6:54:27 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=584/18/2009 6:49:50 AM4/18/2009 6:49:50 AMHighmark Inc. used internal and external resources in multiple locations to run its short-term disability program, causing inefficiencies and customer dissatisfaction. Management sought to understand the impact of proposed process changes on resources, costs, and service quality. Highmark used information from the Human Capital Group and ProcessView, a business process analysis tool from the Orlando Software Group, to make data-driven decisions.4/18/2009 6:49:50 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3344/9/2009 5:59:03 PM4/9/2009 5:59:03 PM3M is a diversified technology company with a yearly revenue of nearly U.S.$23 billion. In 2004–2005, the company‘s Medical Division was not achieving its new product launch goals. Lack of a standard, simple format for communicating project status was creating project delays. To solve this problem, the division turned to an intuitive project scorecard solution, which it created with an integration of the Microsoft® Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution and Microsoft Office Visio® Professional 2003 drawing and diagramming software. The EPM solution maintains project information while Office Visio pulls the data into color-coded project scorecards that are easy to understand and share. Since using the integrated solution, the division has doubled its milestone attainment, improved business insight, simplified communications, and saved significant time on project status tasks.4/9/2009 5:59:03 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=1694/9/2009 5:55:19 PM4/9/2009 5:55:19 PMThe IT Lab of a global pharmaceutical company is responsible for evaluating new technologies to determine viability for the entire enterprise. Due to increasing business pressures from patent expirations, the Lab is tasked to find solutions to reduce time-to-market by running projects more efficiently. Optimizing staff allocation is currently difficult because obtaining resource allocation information is a cumbersome manual effort. To solve this problem, the Lab deployed Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 to automate reports to better analyze their project and resource data. With over 1,000 project managers from R&amp;D to Marketing, the team expects large scale efficiency gains to be generated by these new reports. Based on the success of the initial pilot program, the lab expects the company to save over $2M annually on project status tracking and staff allocation efforts.4/9/2009 5:55:19 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=1704/9/2009 5:50:39 PM4/9/2009 5:50:39 PMBusiness Process Management Solution Provider Improves Developer Productivity4/9/2009 5:50:39 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=1904/9/2009 5:40:42 PM4/9/2009 5:40:42 PM4/9/2009 5:40:42 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=197http://visiotoolbox.com/The latest articles from the world of visiotoolbox.(c) 2007.51/28/2010 11:23:15 PM1/28/2010 11:23:15 PMMicrosoft® Office Visio® 2007 Professional can be integrated with a variety of other Microsoft Products. Visio 2007 provides enhanced data integration capabilities and improved tools for users who want to link their data to their diagrams. Review these white papers for step by step instructions, automation codes, sample diagrams and more . . .1/28/2010 11:23:15 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=101/28/2010 11:21:32 PM1/28/2010 11:21:32 PMEver increasing advances in Information Technology, computer science and engineering continues to result in better, more advanced computer hardware and software at proportionally decreasing costs. Many businesses today simply cannot operate without the use of technology, whether communicating with customers, collecting and analyzing data, businesses today run on technology. Increasingly, most businesses have the adequate technology that enables them to run their operations more efficiently and as a result collect and store large amounts of data. However, the businesses that are able to effectively turn that data into useful information and act on that information are the businesses that tend to remain competitive.1/28/2010 11:21:32 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=731/28/2010 11:12:10 PM1/28/2010 11:12:10 PMSupporting Green Decisions with Visio1/28/2010 11:12:10 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3251/28/2010 11:05:18 PM1/28/2010 11:05:18 PMOver the last few years, there has been explosive growth in the awareness and availability of business intelligence (BI) solutions in all organizations from small, family-owned businesses all the way up to the largest enterprises in the world.&nbsp; One of the biggest challenges facing these organizations today is figuring out how to present data to users in a way that is both meaningful and easily digestible.1/28/2010 11:05:18 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=311/28/2010 2:47:08 AM1/28/2010 2:47:08 AMWhen we at P++ considered technologies with which to develop our performanc e modeling and prediction software, thePerf Tool®, it became evident that leveraging VISIO 2007’s powerful engine would be ideal for our drag &amp; drop interface. Today, thePerfTool® integrates a VISIO 2007 ActiveX control that enables our clients to create architectural models of their complex enterprise applications, without requiring any prior experience with the VISIO product, through a simple and intuitive drag &amp; drop interface. The richness of the VISIO ActiveX control enables our software to enforce all checks and balances needed while building a performance model of a complex enterprise application.1/28/2010 2:47:08 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=904/13/2009 2:21:16 PM4/13/2009 2:21:16 PMWhen we at P++ considered technologies with which to develop our performanc e modeling and prediction software, thePerf Tool®, it became evident that leveraging VISIO 2007’s powerful engine would be ideal for our drag &amp; drop interface. Today, thePerfTool® integrates a VISIO 2007 ActiveX control that enables our clients to create architectural models of their complex enterprise applications, without requiring any prior experience with the VISIO product, through a simple and intuitive drag &amp; drop interface. The richness of the VISIO ActiveX control enables our software to enforce all checks and balances needed while building a performance model of a complex enterprise application.4/13/2009 2:21:16 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=1944/9/2009 4:22:55 AM4/9/2009 4:22:55 AMWhen we at P++ considered technologies with which to develop our performanc e modeling and prediction software, thePerf Tool®, it became evident that leveraging VISIO 2007’s powerful engine would be ideal for our drag &amp; drop interface. Today, thePerfTool® integrates a VISIO 2007 ActiveX control that enables our clients to create architectural models of their complex enterprise applications, without requiring any prior experience with the VISIO product, through a simple and intuitive drag &amp; drop interface. The richness of the VISIO ActiveX control enables our software to enforce all checks and balances needed while building a performance model of a complex enterprise application.4/9/2009 4:22:55 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3084/8/2009 6:10:55 PM4/8/2009 6:10:55 PMWhen we at P++ considered technologies with which to develop our performanc e modeling and prediction software, thePerf Tool®, it became evident that leveraging VISIO 2007’s powerful engine would be ideal for our drag &amp; drop interface. Today, thePerfTool® integrates a VISIO 2007 ActiveX control that enables our clients to create architectural models of their complex enterprise applications, without requiring any prior experience with the VISIO product, through a simple and intuitive drag &amp; drop interface. The richness of the VISIO ActiveX control enables our software to enforce all checks and balances needed while building a performance model of a complex enterprise application.4/8/2009 6:10:55 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=2514/8/2009 4:37:49 PM4/8/2009 4:37:49 PMThe network infrastructure of today's enterprise is in a perpetual state of evaluation and optimization. This requires the careful consideration of various factors, such as hardware components, equipment placement, heat dissipation, cooling, power consumption and short and long-term cost and expandability. An important resource throughout this process is the collection of designs and diagrams that help you analyze the complex systems and relationships that power your network infrastructure.4/8/2009 4:37:49 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=1089/4/2008 4:42:28 AM9/4/2008 4:42:28 AMThe network infrastructure of today's enterprise is in a perpetual state of evaluation and optimization. This requires the careful consideration of various factors, such as hardware components, equipment placement, heat dissipation, cooling, power consumption and short and long-term cost and expandability. An important resource throughout this process is the collection of designs and diagrams that help you analyze the complex systems and relationships that power your network infrastructure.9/4/2008 4:42:28 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=23http://visiotoolbox.com/The latest articles from the world of visiotoolbox.(c) 2007.51/30/2010 1:56:20 AM1/30/2010 1:56:20 AM1/30/2010 1:56:20 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3301/29/2010 4:10:20 AM1/29/2010 4:10:20 AMeGet&nbsp;the NEWEST Version of SCCM &amp; SCOM Add-In (V1.3.0)&nbsp;<br />Monitor your database environment with the SQL Server Add-In<br />Near Real Time Monitoring (NRTM) of Disk Space uses the new Data Graphics feature of Visio 2007 to display the results of server monitoring.<br />Project Management with the WBS Modeler<br />Or create your own create custom Icon Sets with the IconSet Builder1/29/2010 4:10:20 AMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=801/28/2010 10:56:22 PM1/28/2010 10:56:22 PMUpdated Add-In for Visio 2007 to Export to XAML1/28/2010 10:56:22 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=831/28/2010 10:54:01 PM1/28/2010 10:54:01 PMA download containing the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Logical Database Diagrams is now live on MSDN downloads.1/28/2010 10:54:01 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=721/28/2010 10:52:44 PM1/28/2010 10:52:44 PM1/28/2010 10:52:44 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=1001/28/2010 10:11:03 PM1/28/2010 10:11:03 PMCome see us demonstrate for you the free Microsoft System Center Operations Manager alert add-in and the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager patch management add-in for Microsoft Office Visio 2007. Learn all about this amazing, helpful, and handy free Visio add-in for System Center Operations Manager and System Center Configuration Manager. We preview the workings of the connector and show how you can use it in your infrastructure today. We also describe the Microsoft SQL Server deployment add-in for Visio and explain how it can help you with your new Microsoft SQL Server 2008 deployment.1/28/2010 10:11:03 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=751/28/2010 10:03:15 PM1/28/2010 10:03:15 PMMicrosoft Office Visio is a great IT tool that enables you to convert your static diagrams to dynamic visual dashboards. In this webcast, we explore how Visio can help you increase your effectiveness and efficiency to meet your IT needs. We cover the following IT professional scenarios and demonstrations:<br /><br />How to plan your data centers better, optimally utilize rack space, and save money by planning optimally using Visio.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br />How to visualize your entire system architecture and dive into details about certain usage scenarios.<br /><br />Amaze your senior managers by showing the detailed visual planning you can do with Visio. We also explore how to use Visio for incident and change management scenarios.1/28/2010 10:03:15 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=771/28/2010 9:53:23 PM1/28/2010 9:53:23 PMCheck out Adam Bomb's Tech Net Blog to get the latest news on the new integration feature that Dale Koetke's team is working on - Live data connections between Visio diagrams and Operations Manager data. This integration allows you to use your Visio diagrams as dynamic views into your data, instead of static pictures of the state of the network at one point in time. Check out this cool video of Dale sharing his expertise.Check out Adam Bomb's Tech Net Blog to get the latest news on the new integration feature that Dale Koetke's team is working on - Live data connections between Visio diagrams and Operations Manager data. This integration allows you to use your Visio diagrams as dynamic views into your data, instead of static pictures of the state of the network at one point in time. Check out this cool video of Dale sharing his expertise.1/28/2010 9:53:23 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3371/28/2010 9:31:07 PM1/28/2010 9:31:07 PM1/28/2010 9:31:07 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=3491/28/2010 9:24:39 PM1/28/2010 9:24:39 PM1/28/2010 9:24:39 PMhttp://visiotoolbox.com/en-US/AbtArticle1.aspx?articleid=350