iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 Upgrade

by Corel

Product Features

• Business diagraming tool allows organizations to visualize, document, and communicate efficiently
• Create flowcharts, organization charts, process diagrams, and structured business diagrams
• Easily create flowcharts, control charts, comparison charts, timelines, and more
• Features intelligent swimlanes, smart line routing, and advanced document management tools
• Quickly identify problems to ensure your organization operates at peak performance levels

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006W2RA
• Item model number: FC3UGENG0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 3, 2002
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,427 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #67 in Software > Business & Office > Presentation > Flowcharts
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 is a business diagramming tool that makes it easy for organizations of all sizes to visualize, document, and communicate the way their business operates. The essential tool for ISO 9000 compliance, iGrafx FlowCharter lets you easily create flowcharts, organization charts, process diagrams, and structured business diagrams that visualize today's fast changing business environment. Continuing the tradition of diagramming excellence started by ABC FlowCharter, iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 is the foundation for any process improvement effort.

iGrafx FlowCharter can quickly help your organization create information-rich content that communicates workflow and other organizational information. Novice iGrafx FlowCharter users can take advantage of ready-to-use templates to easily create flowcharts, control charts, comparison charts, organization charts, cascade diagrams, cause-and-effect diagrams, hierarchical models, process maps, and timelines. In addition, intuitive drawing features such as intelligent swimlanes, smart line routing, and advanced document management tools can help you document even the most complex process, organizational structure, or system in minimal time.

Diagrams created with iGrafx FlowCharter give you a simple, easy-to-understand way to visualize the different workflows throughout your organization. You can quickly identify problems and suggest improvements to ensure that your organization operates at peak performance levels. iGrafx FlowCharter delivers the tools your organization needs to visualize and communicate workflow information specific to your business.

To increase efficiency and facilitate teamwork, iGrafx FlowCharter easily integrates with iGrafx Process Central 2003--a repository that provides a central document storage location. iGrafx Process Central also provides access control, approval tracking, audit trail, version control, query, and link management features.

In addition, process maps created with iGrafx FlowCharter are upwardly compatible with iGrafx Process 2003 and iGrafx Process 2003 for Six Sigma. These applications serve as major extensions of iGrafx FlowCharter and include functionality that enables you to conduct real-world simulations on your process models to maximize the value and impact of your process improvement efforts.

Key Features

iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 is an intelligent business diagramming and modeling solution designed for business analysts, IT professionals, knowledge workers, managers, and quality specialists that has set the standard for ease of use in a diagramming tool. With iGrafx FlowCharter, it has never been easier to create free-form, structured, process, software, and presentation diagrams.

The standard for ease of use

The iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 user interface has been streamlined to represent a purpose-oriented workflow. In addition, many diagramming features have been enhanced to provide automatic functionality that helps you get started quickly.

Auto-connect shapes: The auto-connect feature in iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 helps you connect shapes quickly and easily without using the Connector Line tool. Simply click on one shape and then drag and drop the cursor on the other shape that you want to connect. The auto-connect feature automatically adds a connector line between the shapes. This functionality makes the diagramming process more intuitive and will help you create flowcharts and diagrams in record time.

Automatic off-page connectors: iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 uses automatic off-page connectors to help make multi-page diagrams easier to read. Automatic off-page connectors are lettered symbols and line segments that indicate the line's source and destination. For example, if you have two shapes that connect across a page boundary, iGrafx FlowCharter can automatically insert a connector. This eliminates the confusion of having to manually connect unlabeled "spaghetti" lines that cross over page boundaries. This functionality is turned on and off by the user. The Off-Page Connectors tab in the Format Diagram dialog box provides many options for customizing automatic off-page connectors, including numeric or alphabetic labeling, and font style.

Replace Shape command: Another time-saving feature of iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 is dynamic document editing and updating, which is accomplished using the Replace Shape command. Simply select the shape or shapes that you want to change and then choose Replace Shape from the Arrange menu. The Replace Shape dialog box will open to guide you through this process. By using this feature, you can ensure that no shape data, link, or other content is lost when updating your diagrams.

Automatic Line Routing: iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 features dynamic line management in the form of automatic line routing. When you connect two shapes, iGrafx FlowCharter automatically routes the connector line between them. If you modify the shapes in the diagram, the Automatic Line Routing feature saves you considerable time by automatically redrawing the connector lines between the shapes.

Unlimited page/diagram size: iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 imposes no limitation on page or diagram size. The intuitive Page Setup dialog box gives you extensive options for specifying page orientation, scaling, paper size, margins, headers and footers, and page order.

Tabular editing view: For convenience when editing long documents, iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 lets you choose between Normal and Tabular views. The Tabular view presents the information in your diagram in a spreadsheet format. This feature is valuable when editing and updating large, complex diagrams that contain a large amount of information.

Import filters: iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 includes more than 20 import filters, including Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM), AutoCAD (DWG), and Visio. You can import and re-purpose any documents created with Visio.

Build enterprise models

A process map only goes so far in describing how your business operates. The key to truly visualize, understand, and improve your processes is modeling and simulation. By adding information to a process map about how work gets done, you will be able to build a replica of real-life processes. The replica, or process model, can then be experimented with for testing proposed process improvements. This method of modeling and simulation can save your organization considerable time and money during a process improvement initiative.

iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 includes many features that help make it easy for you to get a head start on building process models.

Intelligent Departments (swim lanes): When you create a Process diagram type, Departments, or swim lanes, appear in the diagram by default. When you place a shape within a Department, the shape is anchored to that department. If you choose to reposition the Department, the shape automatically moves with it. You can also add Departments to a Basic diagram type.

Phase lines: When creating a Process diagram type, you can add Phase lines to indicate relative time periods. For example, you may want to add three phases to a production diagram--pre-production, production, and post-production. The Phase lines provide a visual break to illustrate various segments of a process flow. Phase lines may only be placed in a Process diagram or a Basic diagram that has Departments.

Organization Charts: Organization Charts are specialized diagrams that help you create professional organizational charts from a single top-level shape to every employee below. iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 provides you with an OrgChart Builder that helps you create an Organization Chart without having to manually add shapes to your diagram. The OrgChart Builder shown below helps you add subordinate and assistant shapes to your organization chart quickly and easily.

In addition, iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 includes import functionality that automatically creates an Organization Chart from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing organizational structure information. You can import a human resources database and iGrafx FlowCharter will automatically produce an Organization Chart. The intuitive OrgChart - Excel Worksheet Select dialog box guides you through this process.

Custom Data dialog box: The Custom Data dialog box lets you add user-definable process metrics to your diagrams to quantify time, cost, resources, and other valuable performance measures.

Extend and customize

From support for Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, to upward compatibility with the entire range of iGrafx enterprise process management solutions, iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 is the foundation for any process improvement initiative and includes options for extension and customization.

Support for Microsoft Visual Basic: iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 supports integration with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications so that you can customize, extend, and integrate iGrafx FlowCharter with other applications. You can integrate iGrafx FlowCharter with your own business applications, or create and add custom functionality that leverages the industry's best business graphics diagramming engine.

iGrafx Process Central 2003 ready: iGrafx Process Central 2003 is a central process repository that provides a collaborative environment for enterprise process management. Take advantage of features like version control, audit trail, query, approval tracking, access control, and link management to manage change, share business models, and successfully implement process improvement projects.

iGrafx Enterprise Process Management upward compatibility: iGrafx FlowCharter 2003 is the foundation of the iGrafx EPM solutions. The skills acquired through the use of iGrafx FlowCharter are immediately transferable to the other products in the iGrafx family. In addition, any data or diagrams created with iGrafx FlowCharter are completely compatible with iGrafx EPM solutions. The diagram below illustrates how iGrafx FlowCharter fits into the iGrafx family.