Is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM an Alternative to Microsoft Visio?

Visio for Mac and Windows - ConceptDraw as an alternative to MS Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM delivers full-functioned alternative to MS Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM supports import of Visio files. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM supports flowcharting, swimlane, orgchart, project chart, mind map, decision tree, cause and effect, charts and graphs, and many other diagram types.

Export from ConceptDraw DIAGRAM Document to MS Visio® XML

Once you have created your document in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and you want to share it with your colleagues and friends, who uses MS Visio on their computers, you can easily export your document using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM export to Visio XML files (VDX) feature. Now you can share your ConceptDraw documents with MS Visio users.

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How to Operate with Project Time Frames in ConceptDraw PROJECT

ConceptDraw PROJECT applies an advanced scheduling facilities to enable you arrange your project's tasks with existing human and material resources. Comprehension of project scheduling principle allows you to plan the project the best way to execute it. Sometimes user is wondering why the task is moved to a different time than he supposed. Or he may be confused when a task's tardiness provoke the unwanted shift of other tasks. This article describes how do changes to the Start/Finish dates, or the Duration of the task affect the project schedule, created in ConceptDraw PROJECT.

UML Diagram Visio

This sample shows the UML Class Diagram that was created in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM on the Mac and then was opened for editing in MS Visio. Using the 13 libraries of the Rapid UML Solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM you can create your own visual vector UML diagrams quick and easy.

Vehicular Networking

The Vehicular Networking solution extends the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software functionality with specialized tools, wide variety of pre-made vector objects, collection of samples and templates in order to help network engineers design vehicular network diagrams for effective network engineering activity, visualize vehicular networks, develop smart transportation systems, design various types of vehicle network management diagrams, regional network diagrams, vehicular communication system diagrams, vehicular ad-hoc networks, vehicular delay-tolerant networks, and other network engineering schemes.

Active Directory Diagrams

Active Directory Diagrams solution significantly extends the capabilities of ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with special Active Directory samples, convenient template and libraries of Active Directory vector stencils, common icons of sites and services, icons of LDPA elements, which were developed to help you in planning and modelling network structures and network topologies, in designing excellently looking Active Directory diagrams, Active Directory Structure diagrams, and Active Directory Services diagram, which are perfect way to visualize detailed structures of Microsoft Windows networks, Active Directory Domain topology, Active Directory Site topology, Organizational Units (OU), and Exchange Server organization.

Word Exchange

The Word Exchange Solution has great benefits and is a powerful two-way exchanger and converter between ConceptDraw MINDMAP and Microsoft Word applications. It provides the full set of powerful tools that are indispensable for everyone who works with texts. The solution allows to equally easily convert your MS Word documents to the Mind Maps and to make the MS Word documents from your Mind Maps designed in the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software. It allows you to quickly create the framework for a future article or book, fill the structure with ideas, and use it to produce an MS Word document with just a simple click of the mouse.

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How to Purchase and Install ConceptDraw Solution Packages

How to Install ConceptDraw Solution Packages

This article will guide you through purchasing, downloading and installing a ConceptDraw Solutions bundle. You can Create striking illustrations in a range of themes or styles, by using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM powerful drawing tools and the vector stencil libraries provided with the downloaded bundles solutions.

Cross-Functional Flowcharts

The Cross-Functional Flowcharts solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with cross functional flowchart examples, samples, and libraries of cross functional flow chart vector design elements and CH-1 symbols for easy drawing professional-looking and illustrative Cross Functional Flowchart, Cross Functional Diagram, CH-1 Diagram, Process Flowchart, Deployment Flowchart, Opportunity Flowchart, Swimlane Process Mapping Diagram, or Visio Cross Functional Flowchart for planning and further analyzing, optimizing and improvement processes. The use of included pre-made cross functional flowchart template, opportunity flowchart template, and swimlane process map template, greatly easier designing your Cross-functional flowcharts.

Audio, Video, Media

Use it to make professional-looking documents, impressive presentations, and efficient websites with colorful and vivid illustrations and schematics of digital audio, video and photo gadgets and devices, audio video connections and configurations, S Video connection, HD and 3D television systems, home entertainment systems, Closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance systems. All audio video schematics, drawings and illustrations designed in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM are professional looking, clear and understandable for all thanks to applying the most commonly used standards of designations, and are effective for demonstrating in front of a small audience and on the big screens.

Rack Diagrams

The Rack Diagrams solution can be used while working in the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and drawing software in order to create the necessary Rack diagrams. Choosing any of the 54 vector shapes from its stencil library, you can use the Rack Diagrams solution for drawing various types of Rack diagrams or Server rack diagrams visualizing 19" rack mounted computers and servers. The Rack Diagrams solution, additionally including a collection of samples and a quick-start template, can be useful for many users of the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM who deal with computer networks, such as IT specialists; computer, network and telecommunication engineers; software engineers, technical writers, IT managers, system administrators, technical support, webmasters, system architects and engineers.

Enterprise Architecture Diagrams

Enterprise Architecture Diagrams solution extends ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software with templates, samples and library of vector stencils for drawing the diagrams of enterprise architecture models.

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How to Connect Objects in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM on Windows

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM provides a few options for drawing connections between objects: Direct Connectors, Smart, Arc, Bezier, Curve and Round Connectors. You can connect objects in your ConceptDraw diagram with proper connectors using the embedded automatic connection modes. This article describes how you can connect objects with connectors and how you can ascribe different types and behaviors.

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How to Determine what Information to be Displayed in the Project Resource List

After you create a project task list it is a necessary move to resource planning. You need to determine and assign resources to each task. There are several types of resources defined in ConceptDraw PROJECT: work, material, cost, and equipment. The columns of a project Resource List in ConceptDraw PROJECT displays the information you need to capture about each resource in your project.

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Business Process Workflow Diagrams & Software

How to Create a Business Process Workflow Diagram

Any business process consists from a set of activities and tasks intended to accomplish a particular business objective. Making a business process workflow diagram is a visual way for business process analysis. Business process workflow diagram should show how various process participants interact with each other to accomplish business tasks and how the corresponding information flows through the business process stages. A business process workflow diagram can be in help when there is a need to improve the business process. It provides the clear vision on what steps, decisions or activities involved in a process need to be improved. The simplicity of business process workflow diagrams makes them useful tools for process communicating, documenting and guidance on how to do a particular work. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM , with the extended functionality of the Business Process Workflow Diagrams solution, is the ideal medium for creating designs of this type. Business Process The Workflow Diagrams solution contains the set of libraries that help to represent various steps and kinds of business processes.

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How to Create an Accounting Flowchart

An Accounting flowchart is a specialized type of flowchart. With the help of an accounting flowchart, you can visually describe tasks, documents, people responsible for execution at each stage of the accounting workflow. Find out how you can easily create an accounting flowchart of any complexity using Accounting Flowchart Solution from the ConceptDraw Solution Park.

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