1. Visio as a Business Process Analysis Tool Mark Nelson Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

2. Visio is the standard in the BPA tool market Visio is positioned in “Leaders” quadrant in Garter’s 2007 Magic Quadrant Clear No.1 market share position Source: Gartner

3. ComplianceComplianceBPMBPMQualityQuality Visio view of BPA Diagram Types Flowchart Cross Functional Data Flow Diagram Work Flow Diagram BPMN (free download) Diagram Types Flowchart Cross Functional Data Flow Diagram Work Flow Diagram Audit Diagram ITIL Diagram Org Chart Diagram Types Flowchart Cross Functional Cause and Effect Fault Tree Analysis Value Stream Map Work Flow Diagram IDEF0 SDL Diagram TQM Diagram Six Sigma (free download) Partner Solutions for specific vertical scenarios Templates and solutions support 14 diagram types Over 132 solution partners covering specific vertical scenarios

4. Why use Visio as your BPA tool? Ease of use with familiar Office interface Low cost deployment & adoption Widely used within business unit Extensibility with XML,.NET, VBA, COM API Breadth of partner solution for specific vertical & industry Most BPMS solution have Visio integration capability Microsoft is committed to investing heavily in Visio for Process Management

5. Usage scenarios for Visio in BPA Create conceptual diagram to understand process Capture Generate logical process diagram to capture critical business information Structure Visualize and monitor process activity Monitor and Analyze Create physical process model to enable execution Application Development

6. Flowchart template and shapes AutoConnect Themes Create conceptual diagram to understand process Capture

7. Creating a conceptual process diagram

8. Shape Data Custom Shapes & Templates SharePoint Integration Reporting ShapeSheet Generate logical process diagram to capture critical business information Structure

9. Data Visualization Data Link Data Graphics Data Refresh Data Analysis Pivot Diagram Data Mining Add-in Visualize and monitor process activity Monitor and Analyze

10. Visualize and monitor process activity

11. Data Visualization with Data Overlay Data Layer 1 CAD, Photo, Map, Diagram, etc. Background Image Data Layer 2 Data Source 1 Data Source 2 Data Source 3 Shape 1 Shape 2 Shape 3 Data Overlay is a technique to visualize corporate information in context Import background Create data layer Link data to shape Apply Data Graphic

12. Data Selector allows importing multiple data sources into External Data window Link data to shapes by drag & drop or automatic link Data Visualization Process Data Refresh Data Display Data Linking 2 1 3 Data Graphic provides four types of visual effects to display data Data Refresh feature provides manual or automatic data updates

13. Visio has extensive extensibility capabilities Over 48 partners build BPM solutions with Visio Partner Solution Visio 2007ISV or LOB system Create physical process models to enable execution Application Development

14. Process modeling application on Visio

15. Ascentn AgilePoint BPMS Keith Sharp Director, Solutions Marketing Ascentn Corporation

16. Visio Conference 2008 February 5 th and 6 th, 2008 Redmond, WA

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