- Document and analyze business processes
- Design, document, and analyze business processes using templates and shapes that support business process management (BPM) projects, including Six Sigma quality improvement initiatives and ISO 9000 documentation.
- Track comments by individuals
- Use the review mode to easily track comments, shapes, and digital ink added by others.
- Collaborate in new ways
- Publish diagrams from Microsoft Visio to a Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server workspace, or export diagrams using the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format or updated Save as Web Page functionality.
- Annotate diagrams more naturally on the Tablet PC
- Built-in support for the Tablet PC can help you navigate, modify, and annotate your diagrams when you're away from your desk.
- Use digital ink to annotate your diagrams, then format, scale, or rotate your information, or associate it with the ink.
- You can convert digital ink to basic geometry or text.
- Capture ideas with brainstorming tools
- Use templates in Visio 2003 to capture and structure ideas from a brainstorming session.
- Export brainstorming diagrams to Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Extensible Markup Language (XML) to jumpstart the creation of other business files.
- Create calendars from Outlook
- Convert a Microsoft Outlook® calendar to a Visio calendar that can be richly formatted and easily shared with others.
- Create and use technical diagrams more easily
- Take advantage of numerous enhancements to database, engineering, network, software, and Web diagramming tools in Visio 2003.
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