Consuming Visio Diagrams with Visio Services

Visio Services enables users to bring their Visio diagrams to the web world. Other users can view the Visio documents using a web browser, without needing to install the Visio client on their machine. Moreover Visio diagrams can be connected to various data sources, and Visio Services can be configured to refresh the diagrams with any change in the underlying data.

To better understand the features offered by Visio Services, consider a scenario in which an organization wants to monitor the health of its data centers around the world using visual status indicators. Let’s say the health data is fed into a SharePoint list at regular intervals, and using Visio Services you need to design a mechanism to ...

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