Visio Reflection

Visio Reflection:

I was amazed with the Microsoft Visio product as it provides numerous capabilities to give businesses a visual organized process model. A visual makes a significant impact on businesses with planning, developing employees, cost savings, and organizing your business to grow. Microsoft Visio gives companies the capabilities of creating diagrams, flowcharts, organizational work charts, timelines and database structure (just to name a few).

         The purpose of creating diagrams is to help organize and assist companies to brainstorm, plan and focus on the key goal in a productive manner. The Visio diagram provides shapes such as circles and lines to enable you to visualize the task in hand. I believe this saves time on planning and developing your goals with your business.

         The Visio flowcharts are an excellent way to see the daily responsibilities or tasks on how to achieve goals. In my opinion, flowcharts can be a training solution for new employees that come aboard. For example, this would save time because an existing employee wouldn’t have to sit down with a new hire and the visual flowchart would help assist a new hire with daily tasks. In my own workplace, I use a solution with Oracle ERP – UPK (User Productivity Kit). The UPK product is very similar to what Visio has to offer with flowcharts making it easier to learn the material in a professional setting.

        The Visio organizational work chart helps businesses have a good understanding of the employee business structure. The visual provides human resources with an excellent business structure and it shows the entire company with an organized chart.
      
        Visio offers another visual function to provide an accurate timeline tool using a professional solution. Visio could provide cost savings as a project could even be completed early with using the timeline. Overall, the timeline tool can make companies more efficient because they can complete projects in a more timely and cost effective way.

        The databases are tables for businesses to implement their internal infrastructure. The Visio database makes employees' jobs easier with the database functionality. For example, you can create a table with employee information that would make it easier to view data. This would save time and businesses wouldn't have to file and make copies of employee information. A human resource administrative employee could be reduced due to the database being implemented.

       Overall, Visio provides the visual resources for businesses to grow, plan and develop with shapes, diagrams, timelines and other business functions.

References

http://www.sethi.org/classes/cet415/lab_notes/lab_03.html

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/microsoft-visio-2013-top-features-diagram-software-FX103796044.aspx

https://blogs.oracle.com/eSTEP/entry/visio_repository