Microsoft Office Visio 2007: Visualizing Information Work Today and Tomorrow
In today’s world of work the challenges of managing increasing volumes of information continues to grow within organizations. Hear Jeff Raikes, President of Microsoft Business Division, describe how Microsoft’s Information Worker software investments are addressing these challenges head on. Learn how leading Microsoft Office Visio Partner maguro-DataAssist leverages Microsoft’s technology to deliver great value to their customers with innovative data visualization solutions that leverage Microsoft Office system programs, servers and services including Microsoft Office Visio 2007. Then take a journey into the future of the data visualization with Visio’s product development roadmap to see how Visio is planning to impact business and IT professionals across organizations with a new wave of business and personal productivity gains.
Speakers: Jeff Raikes - Microsoft Corporation,
Senaj Lelic - maguro DataAssist GmbH and Bill Morein
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9:00am - 10:00am |
Kodiak |
The Visio Business Today and the Software Product Development Process Driving Visio to Tomorrow
With Visio now in its 15th year, join Richard Wolf, General Manager Office Graphics, as he shares his thoughts on the current momentum that surrounds the Office Visio business. Richard will provide a candid insight into the Microsoft software development process and cycles that are driving the next generation investment areas for the Office Visio business.
Speaker: Richard Wolf - Microsoft Corporation |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Kodiak |
The Power of Diagramming & Data Visualization
Diagrams have been powerful forms of communication for thousands of years, but only in the last 15 years has Visio brought the power into the hands of millions of information workers. Join Uichiro Nozawa – Executive Director of Meister and Will Golding – Director at Microsoft as they share the evolution of diagramming and Visio’s move from static to dynamic diagrams in celebration Visio’s 15th birthday.
Speakers: Will Golding and Uichiro Nozawa |
10:15am - 11:15am |
Kodiak |
Visio Future Investments: The Road Ahead
This session provides conference attendees with the unique opportunity to gain insight into the future Visio product roadmap and key areas of investment relating to the next version of Microsoft Office Visio. Whether you are a Microsoft Customer making future Enterprise Agreement investment decisions or a Microsoft Partner making key decisions on your R&D strategy – this is a session not to be missed.
Speakers: Bill Morein |
11:20am - 12:30pm |
Kodiak |
Panel Q&A and Networking
Join a panel of Microsoft Office Visio executives and Conference Platinum and Gold Sponsors where they discuss different aspects of the Visio business and field questions from the audience. Please submit questions in advance via the question submission slips available at the main Registration Desk in the Conference Centre. The panel will also take questions directly from the floor.
The Panel: Richard Wolf, General Manager Office Graphics; Will Golding, Director Visio Product Marketing; Craig Daw, Principle Development Manager – Visio; Senaj Lelic, Managing Director maguro-DataAssist, Vincent Hildebrandt, Director maguro DataAssist; Uichiro Nozawa, Executive Director Meister Corporation.
Speakers: Will Golding |
4:00pm - 4:45pm |
Kodiak |
Business Solutions 1: Expanding Collaboration between Business and IT with Visual Thinking
Today’s corporations are managing increasingly large amounts of information, which is often complicated and challenging to find, organize, and use in a way that delivers ongoing business results. This session will explore how business and IT professionals can develop and leverage visual thinking tools to drive clarity and greater understanding of complex information for target audiences.
Speakers: Dave Gray - XPLANE and
Christine Lukasik - Microsoft Corporation
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1:45pm - 2:45pm |
St. Helens |
Business Solutions 2: Customer Case Study - SIEMENS; Visio2007 integrated Sales Force Automation Solutions
Process and operational efficiencies remain key business drivers for today’s corporate enterprise. Learn how Visio 2007 Professional provides real world solutions to sales order improvement processes with a case study from a leading industry customer - SIEMENS Power Transmission and Distribution Medium Voltage
Speakers: Senaj Lelic - maguro DataAssist GmbH and
Dr. Gabriele Herold - SIEMENS |
3:00pm - 4:00pm |
St. Helens |
Business Solutions 3: Customer Case Study - SAP AG;
Enterprise Application Integration with Visio and SAP Netweaver
Learn how Visio drives intuitive and cost effective the configuration of SAP’s blueprints and business processes based on Microsoft Office System technology.
Speakers: Heinz-Jürgen Scherer - BPM-X GmbH and
Andreas Kottmann - BPM |
4:30pm - 5:30pm |
St. Helens |
Business Solutions 4: Customer Case Study - VELCO;
Business Process Analysis with Microsoft Office Visio
Visio is rapidly becoming a tool of choice within the Business Process Analysis Tools market. See how a customer’s broad user base is leveraging its Microsoft investment by utilizing Visio’s common process design canvas to drive consistency between business analysts and IT Professionals to model, execute, monitor, and improve corporate business processes.
Speakers: Jesse Shiah - Ascentn Corporation and Chris Custer - VELCO |
10:45am - 11:45am |
St. Helens |
Business Solutions 5: Integrated IT Management Solutions with Microsoft Office Visio
Heralded as one of the Top Ten Tools of Choice for today’s IT Professionals, see how Visio’s new capabilities can drive rich, contextual and dynamic approaches to help manage IT and operational data information assets. Visual reports - say goodbye to the bottom draw and hello to a new age of data linked and dynamic reporting opportunities. This session will preview a set of connectors made available free to the IT pro audience. The code sample of these will be made available on Microsoft’s codeplex.
The connectors we will preview in detail will be SCCOM, SCCM connector, Near real time storage connector for Data centers, SQL assessment tool.
Speakers: Parimal Nagtode - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Vijit Chhabra - Wipro Ltd, Ashok Sharma - Infosys Technologies Ltd and
Kapil Tandon - Microsoft Corporation |
1:15pm - 2:15pm |
St. Helens |
Business Solutions 6: How Microsoft drives Sarbanes Oxley compliance with Office Visio integrated solutions
The Sarbanes Oxley Act (2002) places firm responsibilities on public companies around financial compliance and internal controls. Learn how Microsoft has leveraged its own products and technologies to address these obligations within its IT organization.
Speaker: Chris Bennett - Microsoft Corporation and
Girish Nedungadi - Microsoft Corporation |
2:30pm - 3:30pm |
St. Helens |
Solution Development 1: Visio 2007 as a Solutions Development Platform
From the beginning Visio has provided an extensible platform for solutions development covering a vast array of scenarios. This talk explores the spectrum of Visio solution types from custom shape development to rich modeling applications using examples. The technology and coding language choices available for solutions development are also reviewed.
Speaker: Mark Nelson – Microsoft Office Visio |
1:45pm - 2:45pm |
Kodiak |
Solution Development 2: Developing Visio Solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office
Best practices for creating and deploying Visio add-ins using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2008
Speaker: Chris Castillo - Microsoft Consulting Services |
3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Kodiak |
Solution Development 3: Visio Solution Developer Pain Points
In this session, you’ll learn how to overcome common stumbling blocks and less-than-obvious quirks that Visio developers encounter while building graphical solutions.
Speaker: Chris Roth – Visio MVP |
4:30pm - 5:30pm |
Kodiak |
Solution Development 4: Visio Futures - API Insights
This session will introduce you to the programmability features coming in the next release of Visio.
Speaker: John Haug - Microsoft Office Visio and
Philippe-Joseph Arida - Microsoft Office Visio |
10:45am - 11:45am |
Kodiak |
Solution Development 5: Visualizing Information the Smart (Diagram) Way
Visio is a smart drawing tool, but it is even smarter when linked to corporate data, systems or processes, enabling it to be automatically refreshed to visualize the latest facts and figures. Data-linked Visio diagrams can be used for visualization of complex information; analysis of statistics; and communication to a broader audience with the Visio Viewer or as web pages.
This session will demonstrate linking Visio shapes to data from a variety of sources, including SQL Server stored procedures and XML files; how to drill-down into information using PivotDiagrams; and how to display data values with Data Graphics (and how to create your own). It will also include methods to automatically connect shapes together from data to create an Organization Chart without the Org Chart Wizard; and how to create legends for data graphic items.
Speaker: David Parker – bVisual ltd |
1:15pm - 2:15pm |
Kodiak |
Solution Development 6: Going Further with Data Connectivity
Extending Visio 2007's data connectivity features to write back to a data source.
Speaker: Philippe-Joseph Arida - Microsoft Office Visio |
2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Kodiak |
End User 1: Integrating Visio 2007 with Other Office Applications
Generate Visio diagrams directly from Excel, Project and Office SharePoint Server, share Visio diagrams in the PDF or XPS file format, and preview Visio files directly in Outlook.
Speakers: Hessan Tchaitchian and Dan Albertson -
Microsoft Office Visio |
1:45pm - 2:45pm |
Lassen |
End User 2: Get Creative with Data in Visio 2007
Link business data from a variety of sources to your Visio diagrams. Use the new Data Graphics features to flag risks, milestones, and trends by displaying data as text, data bars, icons, or color codes.
Speakers: Tim Davenport and Suneet Shah - Microsoft Office Visio |
3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Lassen |
End User 3: Understanding and Demystifying Visio Shapes
Learn all about shapes in Visio and how to use the ShapeSheet. This session will walk through the whole model for how to work with shapes. Topics include: templates, stencils, document stencil, masters, icons, and shape development, including custom data graphics.
Speaker: Po-Yan Tsang - Microsoft Office Visio |
4:30pm - 5:30pm |
Lassen |
*Sessions are subject to change without notice.
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