Visualizing Information with Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007

CHAPTER17

Epilogue

Microsoft Visio 2007 introduces some powerful new features to link corporate data to graphics to visualize information. The purpose of this book is to go a little beyond the out-of-the-box Visio to show how it can be honed to suit your company’s needs.

I started 20 years ago with computer-aided design (CAD), on a bespoke workstation and a spreadsheet, on a Commodore Pet. Gradually, I could get both applications on a UNIX workstation. Throughout the 1990s, the corporate world increasingly wanted to see themselves through rose-tainted Windows. What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) was in … and nothing was more WYSIWIG than Visio ...