VisioTM: Our Best Enemy! The Microsoft Office Suite is undeniably the prevailing standard in the vast majority of companies across North America and Europe. The added value offered by this software suite is a proven entity, and VisioTM has become a safe bet when it comes to equipping a variety of users for their conceptualization initiatives. So much so that nowadays, most large companies have inherited, probably like you have, a large amount of legacy VisioTM files. However, some limiting factors of this approach can put the brakes on organizations striving to reach theri strategic objectives. In this regard, we have identified two complementary processes for improvement: - Countless sources of information are not valued and used the way they could be - The benefits of this production made by modeling experts are far from used in an optimal way That said, the answers to this need for improvement are quite limited in number and unclear. The main approach in the market is the “steamroller” one that consists of putting away your VisioTM licenses and force your users into deeply changing their habits to equip themselves with new and more structured solutions. This approach may work if it is accompanied by the right level of investment and if the maturity level is already there! The approach we propose tends to go in the opposite direction of the “Big Bang” method for several fundamental reasons: - Capitalizing on existing information cannot be summarized in a simple import of data since the drawings become normalized models that use multidimensional objects. - Reusing the vocabulary and graphical norms integrated into VisioTM is clearly the preferred way to ease the transition path - The inventory and analysis of VisioTM users enable to identify several kinds of profiles: some are occasional users, and others are real modeling aficionados. It then becomes essential to provide them with tools that are adapted to their use and expectations. Finally, to make a proper transition between a tactical project-based approach towards a perennial enterprise initiative, the company has to rely on its culture and vision. This initiative needs to scrupulously follow an iterative method that is focused on reaching tangible results as soon as during the first weeks! These few lines really tend to give the perception that VisioTM has become our best enemy. And as with any strategic enemy, we need to deal with it and learn to work around it or conquer it. To illustrate this observation, we invite you to have a look at a concrete demonstration in the video below. It will probably shed some light on the answers that Casewise has to offer in this specific situation. Watch the demonstration : Visio Our Best Enemy !

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Casewise Demonstration
Visio: Our Best Enemy!
How to leverage MS Visio within an Enterprise Initiative?
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Introduction
• Visio
– An essential tool into conceptual missions
– An extremely well popular, spread and used software
– A really good tool !
• Pains & Limits
– Collect and Consolidate the Enterprise Information
– Communication, Analysis and Collaboration
– Manage Norms, Standards, Methodologies and Governance

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Objectives
• Are the Visio and Casewise Uses compatible?
• How can we leverage our existing Visio asset/information?
• Do we loose our styles and shapes with a Visio Import?
• How complex is the Import Process?
• What are the prerequisites and the best practices?
• How can we engage our Visio Experts into our Enterprise
Initiative by promoting a synchronous collaboration?

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Scope of the Demonstration
Document every aspect
of your business
Visualize
Collaborate and share
across your enterprise
Expand
Analyze, plan and
improve your business
Optimize

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Leverage the unstructured Information

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Manage Complexity thanks to a 360° View

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Import your Visio Files

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Prerequisites & Best Practices
Basic
 MS Visio and Casewise Modeler
 Visio Files to import
Guidance
 Visio Drawings built by using the Stencils
 Casewise Model is ready to embed the information
 Meta-Model
 Norms & Standards
 Best Practices
 Get an overall understanding of norms for both worlds
 Pay attention of the OBJECT principle /Concept

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A straight forward Process

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Demonstration:
Visio Import

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Scope of the Demonstration
Document every aspect
of your business
Visualize
Collaborate and share
across your enterprise
Expand
Analyze, plan and
improve your business
Optimize

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Engage your Visio Experts

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Environment
 Visio Users keep their software and so their user interface
 Using their tool with the exact same way
Let’s get clear!
Capabilities
 Secure and synchronous connexion to the Enterprise Repository
 Leverage predefined Stencils which are aligned with the Enterprise Norms & Standards
 The Visio Drawings are turned into objects that host properties and associations
 Analyze the relationships and reach their properties
 Exploit the reutilization of existing objects
 Capture and Store any delivery / update within the repository
Benefits
 Collaborate beyond the organizational silos
 Capture, Collect and Consolidate within one unique Enterprise Repository
 Share, Spread and Manage common languages, norms & standards
 Information Quality and Governance

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Demonstration:
V-Modeler

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Casewise Modeler Vs V-Modeler
Generate Impact Analysis
Create and Visualize Matrices
Run Process Simulation
Filter, Search, Export Objects
Import/Export
(csv, Excel, Word, Visio, images)
Administrate Access Rights
Manage Meta Model, Norms & Methodology
Export Visio Files
Read/Create/Modify/Delete Diagrams
Reuse Existing Objects
Read/Create/Modify/Delete properties and
associations
Run consistency checks against the modeling rules
Read/Create/Modify/Delete Diagrams
Reuse Existing Objects
Read/Create/Modify/Delete properties and
associations
Run consistency checks against the modeling rules

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Conclusion
• Casewise has done a strategic choice and carries on to maintain it both on
the technical side and on the methodology side.
• Turn our « best enemy » into a strategic allied to support both tactical and
enterprise approach, in so far it bring added value on Customer sides.

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