2. Microsoft Visio 2010: A New Generation of the Tool for Corporate Diagramming and Greening
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
Session Code: OFS213

3. Session – a few hints
This session is NOT about features or functions lists
There‘s enough whitepapers on this ;-)
This session is about concepts
Using features in the right way
How can functions easen your daily life and work
Where Visio 2010 leverages corporate diagramming to a new level of data encapsulation and validation/evaluation
Green IT benefits from Visio
NEXT: Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT

4. Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT
Visio 2010 – an new Generation of Visio
What‘s new ? Whats old ?
A quick glance at what‘s new in an overview
Structure your diagrams with containers
Let Visio check your diagrams with rules
Visio Services – server-side Visio publishing
NEXT: Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT - 2

5. Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT - 2
Green IT requirements – how does Visio fit in?
Demo: Excel or System Center R2 (RC)
Excel or SCOM with Visio 2010
Publishing the information with Visio services
Demo: Rack Virtualisation/Visualisation
Demo: what can you do more ? More on visualisation in the Visio 2010 times
Toolbox and Green Visio booklet
NEXT: Visio 2010 – a new generation of Visio

6. Visio 2010 – a new generation of Visio

7. Visio 2010 the diagramming standard
Visio: THE standard for corporate diagramming
The basic idea: intelligent, data-driven objects
We‘re talking about Shapes
Were still talking about shape data or shape properties
Of All-time favourites of user requests most of them are delivered and extended in Visio 2010
NEXT: Visio 2010 easier diagramming

8. Visio 2010 – easier diagramming
Makes easy corporate diagramming possible while maintaining the old concepts:
OLD: Visio Shapes reside on a page
NEW: the page stretches to the size needed automatically
OLD: Visio diagrams are connected diagrams
NEW: Visio can check for the technical accuracy of the connected diagram by rules defined by the user
OLD: the user places the shapes on the page
NEW: Visio has some smart ways of helping with the best layout
NEXT: Visio 2010 more about your data

9. Visio 2010 – more about your data
Helps the user in standard scenarios to achieve the desired result faster:
OLD: The user stores object data in the Shape
NEW: Shapes respond if necessary data is missing, either graphically or by showing breaks of rules
OLD: The user has his set of shapes
NEW: Visio prioritizes the shapes the user wants to use most by adding them to the QuickShapes-list
NOW LET‘S SEE SOMETHING!
NEXT: DEMO: creating a network diagram

10. Šenaj Lelić managing Director maguro DataAssist GmbH
demo
Creating a small network diagram with Visio 2010 (QuickShapes, extending pages, DataGraphics)
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH

11. Demo summary We‘re still talking about
Shapes that are added to a page
Visio pages being the container for a diagram
Shape-data that extends the model/diagram
But now we are also talking about
Quicker diagram creation by quickshapes
Individual page sizes fitting to the model without time-wasting „file->Page Setup-> pagesize“
NEXT: Visio and data - take 2010

12. Visio and data
Data is the No 1 key concept that differentiates Visio from other drawing tools:
The data reside within the shapes
Now: where does the information come from ?
Usually: manual entry -> time consuming and error prone
Visio can import data from literally any structured datasource
SharePoint, Access, Excel or any other OLEDB/ODBC source
NEXT: DEMO load live-data in your diagram

13. Šenaj Lelić managing Director maguro DataAssist GmbH
demo
Connecting your demo diagram to a datasource by loading live-data into the diagram
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH

14. Data connectivity and beyond
Now that the data resides in the diagram there‘s still a few potential issues in everyday-use
Not every Visio user is an IT professional
Not every Visio user does this every day
We need an easy way to structure the diagrams and show lower dependencies between objects
E.g.: all servers that are delivering our intranet, or all servers being part of our mail-system
Solution: containers - the easy way to structure your diagram
NEXT: defining rules for diagram looks or reaction

15. Define rules on how the diagram should look like or react
Is there some data still missing (e.g. after the import from a source?)
E.g. Memory, Hard drive space and inventory number MUST be in every shape for proper reporting
Are there connections not fully established between shapes?
E.g. each server must have an incoming connection
Each cable (connector) must be connected on both sides
NEXT: Demo: diagram rules and containers

16. Extend your diagram with rules and container-based reports
demo
Extend your diagram with rules and container-based reports
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH

17. After the diagram creation
Now we got the diagram in place
How do we make it available to others in a simple way but still „working“
Everybody should see the diagram
Changes in vital data must be updateable so changes/visual extensions are updated (e.g. DataGraphics )
The viewers should not be able to modify the diagram
NEXT: publishing diagrams to Visio services

18. Visio Services at a glance
Server-side Visio
Running inside of Microsoft SharePoint
Read-Only View on Visio diagrams
BUT: WITH update of DataGraphics
NO changes to Visio file possible
Programming API for small updates of Views is available
NEXT: DEMO – publish your diagram to Visio Services

19. Publish your diagram to Visio services
demo
Publish your diagram to Visio services
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH

20. Green IT requirements – how does Visio fit in ?
Visio is the ideal tool for Green-IT documentation
Objects in the real world map to shapes
Data for our GreenIT resides in properties / shape data
Proper evaulation and reporting of vital data is supported through
Graphical visualisers (DataGraphics)
Reporting features (Excel, HTML etc)
The user deals with his data not with IT concepts
NEXT: Demo Visio connection to Excel

21. Šenaj Lelić managing Director maguro DataAssist GmbH
demo
Connecting Visio to a Excel file (e.g. updated from System Center R2 data store)
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH

22. Demo summary Connecting is easy
Visio retrieves the data from System Center and visualises it in a simple way in Visio diagrams
The data still resides in System Center AND Visio
Diagram evaluations and reports can easilly be done
Yet to come: SCOM R2 Addin for Visio
BUT WAIT: there‘s more – how about racks ?
NEXT: Rack visualisation with Visio

23. Rack virtualisation/visualisation with Visio 2010
demo
Rack virtualisation/visualisation with Visio 2010
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH

24. Demo summary Racks are „packs of data“ about all different components
Visio is the ideal tool to bring this data in a „visual format“
Evaluation and reporting are fully available but you dont need to work with lines of text or excel rows – just with graphical objects ;-)
BUT WAIT – there‘s more: how about other non-directly IT related issues?
NEXT: all This green IT with VIsio

25. All this Green-IT documentation
Needs to be defined just once when the system is built
Live-data can be added/updated in the diagrams periodically
The users use the diagram for monitoring – they dont have to care about the creation/modification just because some internal data has changed
NEXT: Publish your green IT documentation to the portal

26. The Visio toolbox – online all about Visio
Where do we get more information on real-time solutions
The online source for applied Visio solutions
Downloads (many free) of IT-related tools
Downloads of many demo-solutions
NEXT: question and answers

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