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In just six years, Visio set the standard for business diagramming, so it only makes sense for the company to change the product name to Visio Standard. Given the new flow-charting tools, Internet capabilities, and dozens of other dynamic features that have been added, Visio Standard 5.0 will continue setting clear, effective communication precedents--across your organization and the world! This software allows users to quickly create flow charts and business diagrams to enhance business communications and manage information, processes, and concepts. Visio's pioneering approach to drag-and-drop drawing and its tight integration with Microsoft Office puts powerful graphics capabilities within reach of the mainstream business user. ... Read more

Features

• The best and newest line of intelligent templates for Excel available now!
• Includes 76 intelligent Excel templates developed by a CPA & enhanced by a team of Harvard MBAs!
• Streamlines the time it takes to prepare accurate financial plans, projections and reports!
• Data can be displayed as beautiful enhanced 3D charts!
• Generates complete data in minutes -- incredibly easy to use!

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TaskMapTM was designed to meet the growing demand for a simple, affordable way to document and implement processes. Because of its simplicity, TaskMapTM allows anyone to document processes, whether they are capturing an existing manufacturing process, designing a new engineering process, documenting human resources procedures, or ensuring an organization's compliance with new governance regulations. Create hyperlinked processes directly connected to other Microsoft Office files and Web sites. ... Read more

Features

• Easy to use interface for documenting work policies and procedures. Anyone can learn in 1 hour or less.
• Automated numbering and re-numbering for any tasks in the system
• Supports: Roles, resources, guidelines and timeframes for tasks
• Training and on-line support included in the price
• Ideal for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA, ISO9000, Policies, Procedures and Instructional applications

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FlowCharter 2000 Professional is a business diagramming and modeling solution designed for knowledge workers, managers, and IT professionals. Create free-form, structured, and presentation diagrams, as well as network, process, and software diagrams, organization charts, Web content, and more. FlowCharter 2000's open architecture integrates Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) technology, so users can extend and integrate FlowCharter with other business applications.

Use the iShapes feature to control a range of shape behavior, such as adding costs and cycle times related to each step in a process, and watch the results add up as you manipulate process elements in a process flowchart. iGrids makes it easy to create organized, standard structures that add a professional edge to all of your business documents and presentations. And iDiagrams allows users to create intelligent diagrams that enable interaction with users, databases, and other applications. Together with VBA, iDiagrams can be integrated with applications and platforms like Microsoft BackOffice, Microsoft Office, Oracle, Baan, SAP, and PeopleSoft to create custom solutions that use FlowCharter 2000 as a graphical front end.Note: This is an upgrade version. ... Read more

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Things to know
If you are upgrading from an earlier version you may want to consider that Corel is now the vendor for this product. However, you would be well advised to take advantage of this upgrade from Micrografx and follow their registration procedures, which will get you under Corel's support umbrella.

Reasons to upgrade include:
- More stable
- More templates
- Full VBA support

Of course, once you've used this product in any version you become addicted to the user interface, making the upgrade all the more sensible. ... Read more

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Watch your business start running itself as you move througheach process with FlowCharter 7.0. This heavy-duty interactivediagramming utility (since upgraded to the Office 2000-compatibleiGrafx Professional) is an inexpensive way to integrate your businessprocedures with databases, spreadsheets, and applications. You can alsodesign Living FlowCharts to guide new employees or better visualizeprocedures before they are ever implemented. With a library of over3,800 shapes and drag-and-drop functionality, you'll find creating andmanipulating flow charts to be as easy as playing solitaire.

The package is compatible with Microsoft Office 97, and its interfaceis just as familiar and easy to use. Import and export data as neededand use the script editors to modify object behavior or to customizeany step of your operation. The wizards make designing flow charts assimple as possible while still allowing great flexibility and controlover the end product. Though it would be nice if there were lower-levelwizards for routine maintenance and editing, they're not reallynecessary, and some inspired scripting should take care of yourautomation problems.

Of course, just like other 20th-century software packages, FlowCharter7.0 has some compatibility problems with Office 2000--mostly importingdata from newer versions. This will eventually be a problem for almostany user, but if you're still using Office 97, this version should workwell for you until you decide to upgrade both. --Rob Lightner ... Read more

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Best software for Flowcharts
I have been using FlowCharter 7 for years and have found it to be very easy to use. Flowcharts can be linked together and links can be created from process boxes to Word and Excel documents. In one project I even linked training video clips to process boxes. It also includes SPC charting, easy check lists and the ability to publish flowcharts to the web. This is the fastest and easiest software I have ever used for documenting and publishing processes. Also take a look at the newer version called iGrafx Professional and for business simulation iGrafx Process. ... Read more

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FlowCharter 7 creates powerful, interactive diagrams of just about everything imaginable--business processes, workflow, computer networks, Web sites, databases, and much more. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

FlowCharter 2000 Professional is a business diagramming and modeling solution designed for knowledge workers, managers, and IT professionals. Create free-form, structured, and presentation diagrams, as well as network, process, and software diagrams, organization charts, Web content, and more. FlowCharter 2000's open architecture integrates Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) technology, so users can extend and integrate FlowCharter with other business applications.

Use the iShapes feature to control a range of shape behavior, such as adding costs and cycle times related to each step in a process, and watch the results add up as you manipulate process elements in a process flowchart. iGrids makes it easy to create organized, standard structures that add a professional edge to all of your business documents and presentations. And iDiagrams allows users to create intelligent diagrams that enable interaction with users, databases, and other applications. Together with VBA, iDiagrams can be integrated with applications and platforms like Microsoft BackOffice, Microsoft Office, Oracle, Baan, SAP, and PeopleSoft to create custom solutions that use FlowCharter 2000 as a graphical front end. ... Read more

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Transform your reports, spreadsheets, memos, presentations and Web pages with just a few mouse clicks. Harvard Instant Charts coordinates the graphic elements for you wit layouts, colors, textures, illustrative charts, and graphs to create powerful, high-impact communications. ... Read more

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A chart is worth 1000 words & this program is a bargain!
This has to be one of the most valuable graphics utilities I own - and one of the most amazing. It sits in my system tray waiting for me to invoke it, and when I do I'm greeted by an instant chart menu that pops up regardless of what application(s) I happen to be running. From there I select the chart type I need and make the chart.

There are eight categories of chart types provided with this program: Groups (accents, headings and categories), Relationships (org charts, orbit, triad, pyramid and puzzles), Processes (flow, fan-in and -out, flow-in and -out and cycle), Comparisons (pro & con, ratings, quadrant, and stock arrows and tables), Tables (simple, grid, rows, columns and totals), Charts (bar, column, pie, pyramid, line and area), Lists (bullets, checklist, paragraphs and quotes), and scheduling (agenda, time line, Gantt, and various calendar types).

Because I am a consultant who does a lot of writing and need to convey the most information with the least page count I use this program all of the time. My favorite tools are time lines and Gantt charts, which are intelligent enough to add dates and watch them auto adjust bars. Comparisons are another group that I frequently use. If you are familiar with the Boston Quadrant, then you will love the fact that you can produce one in mere minutes. Also, you can enter labels and select a different display type and the program automatically transforms to what you select. This is great for quickly examining the best way to display information. After you have your graphic laid out to your satisfaction you can add textures, select color themes and backgrounds with a mouse click and selection. A finishing touch is the ability to add callouts and other graphic elements to add flair to your graphic before saving it. Once you are done you save your masterpiece as a Gif file and insert it into your favorite application. I have inserted my graphics into Visio, Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. I have also used them in web pages.

If you spend a lot of time writing and need a quick and easy way to show with pictures what may take the proverbial thousand words, then this is a "must-have" program. I don't know how I ever got along without it. ... Read more