Microsoft Visio 2010 Business Process Diagramming and Validation

Preface

Once the creators of Aldus PageMaker had delivered Desktop publishing to the masses, they decided that they could make a smarter diagramming application. Eighteen months later, they emerged with the Visio product. Now they needed to get a foothold in the market, so they targeted the leading process flow diagramming package of the day, ABC FlowCharter, as the one to outdo. They soon achieved their aim to become the number one flowcharting application and so they went after other usage scenarios, such as network diagramming, organization charts, and building plans. In 1999, Microsoft bought Visio Corporation and Visio gradually became Microsoft Office Visio, meaning that all add-ons had to be written in a certain manner, and the common Microsoft ...