Visio Step by Step

Visio Day in Chicago 

Rodrigo Figueiredo, Microsoft's Visio Solution Specialist in Chicago, organized an enormously successful Visio Day on October 26, 2011. More than 90 people listened to seven speakers and saw demonstrations of Visio 2010 and multiple Visio add-ins.

A key focus for the day, which was cosponsored by the Chicagoland chapter of the International Institute of Business Analysis, was the business process capabilities in Visio Premium 2010. Those capabilities include diagram validation rules and the template for Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), both of which were demonstrated during the day.

In addition, Harvard Computing Group demonstrated TaskMap Professional, which provides significant process mapping, analysis and improvement capabilities without requiring the Premium edition of Visio. OpenText demonstrated analystView, which adds full-scale process simulation to Visio BPMN models.

Visio MVP and consultant Al Edlund demonstrated work-in-progress software to generate network and rack diagrams from a Configuration Management Database. Al's Visio diagrams even include Bing maps that display device location!

Finally, consultant Howard Edidin described work he has done using BPMN to design, model and document Biztalk solutions.

Speakers included:

• Rodrigo Figueiredo, Microsoft
• David Heidt, President, IIBA Chicagoland Chapter
  
• Brett Kovatch, OpenText
• Chris Hopkins, Microsoft
• Scott Helmers, Harvard Computing Group
  
• Al Edlund, Visio MVP
• Howard Edidin, The Edidin Group

Speaker Slides

Copies of the speaker presentations are available for download in PDF format. Note that a few of the speakers' slides used animation effects, which do no appear in the PDF version of the slides.

• Slide presentations from Visio Day
  



23 Door Prizes!

Attendees at Visio Day were rewarded with 23 door prizes! The following products and services were donated by the organzations listed below.

• Harvard Computing Group: three copies of TaskMap Professional
  
• Microsoft: five copies of Visio Premium 2010
  
• OpenText: five copies of analystView
  
• Scott Helmers: three copies of Visio 2010 Step by Step
  
• International Institute of Business Analysis, Chicagoland Chapter: five seats in BMPN seminar



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