Microsoft Visio Professional

"Provides advanced diagramming tools to help you!"


Visio Professional 2010 provides advanced diagramming tools to help you simplify complexity with intuitive and professional-looking diagrams, dynamic and data-driven visuals, and new ways to share via a browser in real time.

• Easily illustrate complex ideas visually with professional-looking templates and modern, pre-drawn shapes
• Share interactive, refreshable, data-linked diagrams with others via their web browsers
• Apply intelligent and advanced diagrams in business-process analysis/BPM, compliance/quality, and rule-based diagrams
• Improve consistency and accuracy across your organization with advanced diagramming and new process-management tools
• See the entire picture by showing meaningful data and information graphically in a single, up-to-date diagram
• Add and align shapes easily and accurately with features such as the Quick Shapes Mini Toolbar, Page Auto Size, and Auto Align & Space
• Create dynamic, data-driven diagrams that are connected to real-time business data and refresh automatically
• Maximize consistency and accuracy across your organization with Diagram Validation that can find common errors or check for business logic
• Import, save, and work with CAD files
• Drill down with pivot diagrams to provide graphical business intelligence analysis to Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office Access, Microsoft SQL Server, or any OLEDB/ODBC data source
• Dramatically improved user experience and intelligent drawing tools and templates make every step in creating diagrams easier
• Make your business-process diagrams easy to understand and professional-looking by using Visio 2010 Subprocesses and Containers to organize related shapes visually and logically

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Required Processor - 500 MHz or faster processor

Required Operating System - Windows 7, Vista with SP1, XP (must have SP3) (32-bit), Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 with SP2 and MSXML 6.0 (32-bit Office only), or later 32- or 64-bit OS

Required Memory - 256 MB RAM; 512 MB recommended for certain advanced functionality
Required Hard Disk Space
2 GB available disk space

Required Display - 1024 x 768 or higher resolution monitor

Required Connectivity - Internet functionality requires an Internet connection

Required Software - Visual Reports require Visio Professional 2010 or Visio Premium 2010, as well as Project 2010 and Excel 2007, or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or later.

Required Browser - Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or later, 32-bit browser only

Additional System Requirements
This product includes both 32- and 64-bit versions for a single computer. We recommend the 32-bit version, which runs great on both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows. People who routinely use very large documents or spreadsheets that need more than 2 GB of memory may want to run the 64-bit version, but many common add-ins for Office don't run correctly in the 64-bit edition.

Other System Requirements
Certain advanced collaboration functionality requires connectivity to Windows Server 2003 with SP1 or later running Windows SharePoint Services.
Multi-Touch features require Windows 7 and a touch-enabled device.
Certain inking features require Windows XP Tablet PC Edition or later.
Speech-recognition functionality requires a close-talk microphone and audio output device.
Internet Fax not available on Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, or Windows Vista Home Premium.
Certain online functionality requires a Windows Live ID.