Visio tagged posts

March 11, 2015 Posted in Blogs

It’s an era of cloud computing. In order to provide adequate computing power, more and more data centers are under construction. In these data centers, VMware is the core solution to reduce costs while increasing the efficiency and utilization of the existing physical hardware.

It’s often to present enterprise architectural design with MS Visio diagrams. But the pain is VMware has never offered a set of stencils for this officially. Fortunately, someone made it for us. The quality of these stencils is just remarkable! And the best of all is, they are free! 😉

These stencils are offered by Maish Saidel-Keesing. You should be able to download them through his blog site. Enjoy!

Additionally, I would like to introduce MS Office 2014 Visio Stencil...

December 21, 2014 Posted in Blogs

One of our utility clients uses MS Visio as its logical data modeling tool. MS Visio is designed as a drawing tool,not as a professional data modeling tool by Microsoft official statement. To create DDL from MS Visio diagram is not straightforward; usually it takes lots of efforts.

We prefer to use UML modeling instead of ERD modeling. Since to adopt object-oriented design in database field is better aligned with object-oriented application design. In order to achieve this goal, we did some research on quite a few tools in the market, and we found Visual Paradigm is an ideal UML modeling tool in data architectural design.

Below is a case study regarding how we transit client’s data model from Visio to Visual Paradigm in their data warehouse project, and how we utilize Visual Paradigm in...