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Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

By : David Parker, Senaj Lelic
Book Image

Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio

By: David Parker, Senaj Lelic

Overview of this book

Every business has process flows, but not all of them are fully described to or verified for accuracy with each stakeholder. This not only presents a risk for business continuity but also removes the ability to make insightful improvements. To make these complex interactions easy to grasp, it’s important to describe these processes visually using symbology that everybody understands. Different parts of these flows should be collaboratively developed and stored securely as commercial collateral. Visualize Complex Processes with Microsoft Visio helps you understand why it is crucial to use a common, systematic approach to document the steps needed to meet each business requirement. This book explores the various process flow templates available in each edition of Microsoft Visio, including BPMN. It also shows you how to use them effectively with the help of tips and techniques and examples to reduce the time required for creating them, as well as how you can improve their integration and presentation. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the skills needed to create data-integrated business flowcharts with Microsoft Visio, learned how to effectively use these diagrams collaboratively, but securely, and understood how to integrate them with other M365 apps, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Power Automate.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Options for multi-language versions

There are different language versions of Visio available, but the usual need is to present the same process diagrams in multiple languages without maintaining multiple copies.

One solution is to have translations in Excel for each process and then regenerate each diagram in the required language version of Visio using Data Visualizer, but that will lose any manual customizations done to the diagrams.

Another solution is to host the diagrams in a SharePoint portal where the end user can select the language to view, as available at https://www.oneassist.de/.

Also, there is a desktop Visio add-in available at https://bvisual.net/products/multi-language-text-for-visio/ that provides the option to store multiple alternate language text for shapes, pages, and hyperlinks.