This week's prodcast is about Visio. Many people perceive Visio as a simplistic org charting too, but it's so much more than that. Visio also maps network topologies, database schemas, complex workflow diagrams, and even custom floor plan drawings. Now that we've shipped Visio 2007, I thought it would be good to find out what's new in our flagship diagramming product.
I had the opportunity to interview Ritu Chaturvedi who is a Product Manager on the Visio team. She discusses how Visio is evolving in the next release. The developers have spent a great deal of time making Visio easier to use and have dramatically improved the visualization capabilties in Visio 2007.
Ritu also highlights a new feature called "Pivot diagrams". Similar to a pivot chart in Excel, pivot diagrams allow users to drill down into their data and graphically represent the results. She also talks about the new data graphics capabilities which enable you to highlight conditional data using icons, flags or data bars.
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For more information on Visio 2007, please visit the Microsoft website.