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Visio Services
There’s a new BI sheriff in town!
Don Kirkham
Senior Engineer / Microsoft Solutions
dkirkham@go-planet.com
@DonKirkham

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Who is Planet Technologies?
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A leader in the integration of Microsoft technologies, providing
architecture, security and management consulting to customers
around the world.
We offer Microsoft based solutions around business
intelligence, CRM, collaboration and messaging, cloud
services, desktop deployment, SharePoint solutions, unified
communications, virtualization and more.
One of only 35 companies nationwide that is recognized as a
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Numerous Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) and Most
Valuable Professionals (MVP) on staff in multiple competencies
www.go-planet.com
Microsoft Partner Customer
Satisfaction Survey Results
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 Central location
 Never leave the browser

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 Not just a snapshot in time
 Diagram only created once
 (1 hour later)

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 Manage Comments
 Co-author diagrams

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 Diagrams in context with other relevant data.

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Content Creator
Create Data-linked Diagram
using Data Linking and Data
Graphics
Data Source
• Excel Services
• SharePoint Service List
• SQL Server
• OLEDB / ODBC
• Etc.
Data Consumer
• Updates Diagram by
clicking refresh button
• Data refresh can be
automated by setting
interval time
Content Creator
Save VSDX file to
SharePoint Server 2013
Data Consumer
• Views data-linked diagram in
web browser
• Can open the diagram in Visio
Import latest data
to update Shapes
& Data Graphics

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IT’S DEMO TIME!

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Visio Web
Access
Custom Data
Providers
Visio JSOM
Mash-Up API
Web Part
Connections
Visio Proxy
Visio Graphics Service
VDW/b/mSQL OLEDB/ODBCXLSX SP Lists

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VSD

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Text Callouts
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Value Label Value
Icon Sets
Data Bars
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Color By Value
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IP Address 10.0.1.104
Memory 32 GB
CPU 1.60 Ghz
Windows Server 2008 R2
sql-sales-01
IP Address 10.0.1.104
Memory 32 GB
CPU 1.60 Ghz
Windows Server 2008 R2
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• Native SQL Azure support
• Native External Lists support via BCS – WCF, .NET, OData
• Native External Lists support via BCS
ODC BCS
BCS

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IT’S DEMO TIME!

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IT’S DEMO TIME!

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http://visio.microsoft.com
http://blogs.office.com/b/visio/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chhopkin/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj164027(v=office.15).aspx
Don Kirkham
Senior Engineer / Microsoft Solutions
dkirkham@go-planet.com
@DonKirkham

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