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Microsoft Visio® 2002 in FloSuite
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio was designed to help business users ‘show’ rather than just tell by enabling them to illustrate and document their ideas with attention-grabbing flowcharts, organisational charts, office layouts, and more. Its familiar Office interface and tools made it simple to create effective business diagrams quickly and easily. Microsoft Visio 2002 carries on this functionality, but also introduces new possibilities with its ability to generate XML-based output files.
Microsoft Visio 2002 and process design in FloSuite
By using Microsoft Visio 2002 for its process design, FloSuite is able to offer a purely graphical definition model that automatically creates the XML-based code behind the scenes while business users simply drag and drop shapes to define workflow properties and dependencies. So no matter how complex or protracted the alterations made to workflows, there will be no requirement for scripting or programming, and no loss of workflow sophistication.
While there are many business process management and workflow applications on the market that claim no scripting or programming is required to update workflows, in reality these products are almost without exception inflexible applications that actually do require programmers to make any logic changes beyond the simple re-sequencing of process steps.
Therefore, when the phrase ‘no scripting or programming’ is applied to FloSuite, it actually means this – which is a key differential between FloSuite and other business process management and workflow products.