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Whether you’re creating an organizational chart, a network diagram, or a business process, the new tools and more intuitive interface in Visio Professional 2010 make it easier to bring your diagrams to life.

• Modern, pre-drawn shapes, intelligent templates, sample drawings and a wide variety of options, to meet your diagramming needs.

• Create a diagram from scratch or modify an existing diagram, by adding and aligning shapes quickly, easily and accurately with features such as the Quick Shapes Mini Toolbar, enhanced dynamic grid, page Auto Size, automatic alignment and layout adjustment.

• Logical groupings of features in Ribbon tabs and enhanced Shapes window, allows easy access to shapes and stencils, and a new status bar that helps you move more efficiently within and between your diagrams.

• Bring your diagrams to life with real-time data, by connecting your diagram to one or more data sources such as Excel or SQL Server. Then, display real-time data right within your diagrams, based on conditions you define, using vibrant colours, icons, symbols, and data bars.

• Make your diagrams attractive, professional-looking and appealing in seconds, with a wide range of formatting tools and design options, including modern visuals, a rich gallery of themes, and Live Preview.

• Building architecture and services diagrams: including space, floor plan, electrical, plumbing, HVAC and more.
• Detailed Network diagrams: including Active directory services, and Rack servers.
• Engineering diagrams: including electrical, chemical, mechanical and more.
• ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) diagram: to define infrastructure technology requirements.
• Pivot Diagram: to automatically create hierarchical diagrams that group and total your data for visual analysis and presentation.
• Software and Database diagrams:including UML and Website Map.
• Value Stream Maps.
• Web site mapping and documentation: including auto-generation of Web site maps.
• Automatic Data Linking: to one or multiple data sources such as Microsoft® Excel, Access, SQL, and SharePoint Services list.
• Automatic Data Refresh: with the time intervals you define.
• Database modeling diagrams: with reverse engineering of any Open Database Connectivity–compliant data source.
• Data-driven solution supportAPI.
• Improved, Data Graphics: to show real-time data right within the diagrams using vibrant colors, icons, symbols and data bars.
• New, Wireframe Diagram: to create medium-fidelity wireframe diagrams for software application prototyping and design.
• New, Data Legend: to explain the meaning of data-linked Data Graphics.
• New, Real-Time sharing of dynamic, data-drivendiagrams via a browser–using Visio Services and SharePoint® 2010 integration.
• New, Visual mash-ups with Visio Services: to create dashboards using real-time data, and other services in SharePoint® Server 2010.

• Operating System: Windows Vista with SP1 (64-bit), Windows Server 2003 R2 (64-bit) with MSXML 6.0 installed, Windows Server 2008 with SP2 (64-bit), Windows 7 (64-bit). Terminal Server and Windows on Windows (WOW) (which allows installing 32-bit versions of Office 2010 on 64-bit operating systems) are supported.
• Processor: 500 MHz processor or higher.
• Memory: 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher.
• Hard disk: 2.5 gigabyte (GB); a portion of the disk space will be freed after installation if the original download package is removed from the hard drive.
• Display: 1024x768 or higher resolution monitor; 1024x576 or higher for Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Additional: Use of graphics hardware acceleration requires DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64 MB or higher video memory. Requirements and product functionality can vary based on the system configuration and operating system.