Transcript Šenaj Lelić managing Director maguro DataAssist GmbH Session Code: OFS213 Session – a few hints  This session is NOT about features or functions lists   This session.

Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
Session Code: OFS213
Session – a few hints
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This session is NOT about features or functions
lists
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This session is about concepts
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There‘s enough whitepapers on this ;-)
Using features in the right way
How can functions easen your daily life and work
Where Visio 2010 leverages corporate diagramming
to a new level of data encapsulation and
validation/evaluation
Green IT benefits from Visio
NEXT: Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT
Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT
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Visio 2010 – an new Generation of Visio
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What‘s new ? Whats old ?
A quick glance at what‘s new in an overview
Structure your diagrams with containers
Let Visio check your diagrams with rules
Visio Services – server-side Visio publishing
NEXT: Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT - 2
Agenda Visio 2010 and Green IT - 2
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Green IT requirements – how does Visio fit in?
Demo: Excel or System Center R2 (RC)
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Excel or SCOM with Visio 2010
Publishing the information with Visio services
Demo: Rack Virtualisation/Visualisation
Demo: what can you do more ? More on
visualisation in the Visio 2010 times
Toolbox and Green Visio booklet
NEXT: Visio 2010 – a new generation of Visio
Visio 2010 the diagramming
standard
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Visio: THE standard for corporate diagramming
The basic idea: intelligent, data-driven objects
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We‘re talking about Shapes
Were still talking about shape data or shape
properties
Of All-time favourites of user requests most of
them are delivered and extended in Visio 2010
NEXT: Visio 2010 easier diagramming
Visio 2010 – easier diagramming
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Makes easy corporate diagramming possible
while maintaining the old concepts:
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OLD: Visio Shapes reside on a page
NEW: the page stretches to the size needed
automatically
OLD: Visio diagrams are connected diagrams
NEW: Visio can check for the technical accuracy of
the connected diagram by rules defined by the user
OLD: the user places the shapes on the page
NEW: Visio has some smart ways of helping with
the best layout
NEXT: Visio 2010 more about your data
Visio 2010 – more about your data
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Helps the user in standard scenarios to achieve
the desired result faster:
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OLD: The user stores object data in the Shape
NEW: Shapes respond if necessary data is missing,
either graphically or by showing breaks of rules
OLD: The user has his set of shapes
NEW: Visio prioritizes the shapes the user wants to
use most by adding them to the QuickShapes-list
NOW LET‘S SEE SOMETHING!
NEXT: DEMO: creating a network diagram
Creating a small network diagram with Visio 2010
(QuickShapes, extending pages, DataGraphics)
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
Demo summary
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We‘re still talking about
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Shapes that are added to a page
Visio pages being the container for a diagram
Shape-data that extends the model/diagram
But now we are also talking about
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Quicker diagram creation by quickshapes
Individual page sizes fitting to the model without
time-wasting „file->Page Setup-> pagesize“
NEXT: Visio and data - take 2010
Visio and data
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Data is the No 1 key concept that differentiates
Visio from other drawing tools:
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Now: where does the information come from ?
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The data reside within the shapes
Usually: manual entry -> time consuming and error
prone
Visio can import data from literally any
structured datasource
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SharePoint, Access, Excel or any other
OLEDB/ODBC source
NEXT: DEMO load live-data in your diagram
Connecting your demo diagram to a datasource by
loading live-data into the diagram
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
Data connectivity and beyond
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Now that the data resides in the diagram there‘s
still a few potential issues in everyday-use
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Not every Visio user is an IT professional
Not every Visio user does this every day
We need an easy way to structure the diagrams
and show lower dependencies between objects
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E.g.: all servers that are delivering our intranet, or
all servers being part of our mail-system
Solution: containers - the easy way to structure
your diagram
NEXT: defining rules for diagram looks or reaction
Define rules on how the diagram
should look like or react
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Is there some data still missing (e.g. after the
import from a source?)
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E.g. Memory, Hard drive space and inventory
number MUST be in every shape for proper
reporting
Are there connections not fully established
between shapes?
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E.g. each server must have an incoming connection
Each cable (connector) must be connected on both
sides
NEXT: Demo: diagram rules and containers
Extend your diagram with rules and containerbased reports
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
After the diagram creation
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Now we got the diagram in place
How do we make it available to others in a
simple way but still „working“
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Everybody should see the diagram
Changes in vital data must be updateable so
changes/visual extensions are updated (e.g.
DataGraphics )
The viewers should not be able to modify the
diagram
NEXT: publishing diagrams to Visio services
Visio Services at a glance
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Server-side Visio
Running inside of Microsoft SharePoint
Read-Only View on Visio diagrams
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BUT: WITH update of DataGraphics
NO changes to Visio file possible
Programming API for small updates of Views is
available
NEXT: DEMO – publish your diagram to Visio Services
Publish your diagram to Visio services
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
Green IT requirements – how does
Visio fit in ?
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Visio is the ideal tool for Green-IT
documentation
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Objects in the real world map to shapes
Data for our GreenIT resides in properties / shape
data
Proper evaulation and reporting of vital data is
supported through
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Graphical visualisers (DataGraphics)
Reporting features (Excel, HTML etc)
The user deals with his data not with IT
concepts
NEXT: Demo Visio connection to Excel
Connecting Visio to a Excel file (e.g. updated from
System Center R2 data store)
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
Demo summary
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Connecting is easy
Visio retrieves the data from System Center and
visualises it in a simple way in Visio diagrams
The data still resides in System Center AND Visio
Diagram evaluations and reports can easilly be
done
Yet to come: SCOM R2 Addin for Visio
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BUT WAIT: there‘s more – how about racks ?
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NEXT: Rack visualisation with Visio
Rack virtualisation/visualisation with Visio 2010
Šenaj Lelić
managing Director
maguro DataAssist GmbH
Demo summary
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Racks are „packs of data“ about all different
components
Visio is the ideal tool to bring this data in a
„visual format“
Evaluation and reporting are fully available but
you dont need to work with lines of text or excel
rows – just with graphical objects ;-)
BUT WAIT – there‘s more: how about other
non-directly IT related issues?
NEXT: all This green IT with VIsio
All this Green-IT documentation
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Needs to be defined just once when the system
is built
Live-data can be added/updated in the
diagrams periodically
The users use the diagram for monitoring – they
dont have to care about the
creation/modification just because some
internal data has changed
NEXT: Publish your green IT documentation to the portal
The Visio toolbox – online all about
Visio
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Where do we get more information on real-time
solutions
www.Visiotoolbox.com
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The online source for applied Visio solutions
Downloads (many free) of IT-related tools
Downloads of many demo-solutions
NEXT: question and answers
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