Productive flow charting solution makes communication easier.

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  • Author Eugene Akinshin
  • Published May 21, 2011
  • Word count 493

How many times did you re-write your text again and again in attempts to explain your point of view and hoped that this time you would be finally understood? Probably, a little graphical illustration could help, but...

Oh yeah, we all heard these tired phrases thousands of times: "Visual communication is more effective than verbal", "A picture is worth a thousand words" and so on and on. These statements are repeated again and again in different variants, in books and articles, at seminars and lectures, they are repeated so often that we from one side think that they are a copybook truth that is beyond any doubts, and from the other side we don't even think to use them in practice.

Then why in real business activity we daily exchange millions of emails, text documents, sheets, instant messages, etc.? Since illustrations are so cool, since they make it possible to easily and clearly explain complicated issues, then what the hell we spend the whole day writing difficult-to-understand texts instead of drawing, drawing, and drawing?

You can't but agree that it is very attractive to be able to illustrate a report for the meeting, presentation or blog post by a visual and high quality flow chart that will distinguish your work among others.

Though let's look facts in the face: creation of an attractive diagram is a complicated and time consuming task. This very circumstance makes us refuse using business graphics in our work even if we accept its efficiency. Are you ready to spend half of your day executing routine operations time after time and try to connect graphical elements in the optimal way? Most likely, you are not.

There is a good solution that helps reduce manual drawing and that is smart enough to make some important things automatically.

Grapholite is a universal means for creating business diagrams and flow charts. It offers maximum productivity and makes the creation of even the most sophisticated flow charts with tons of elements require minimum of manual work and make connections between the elements build with a single mouse move. Heart of the software is an intellectual algorithm of connections layout that helps you make automatic links between the flow chart elements as neatly as possible.

Attention to details such as drawing of a little eyelet in the intersection of the links or a little shift of a line in the place where the routes could overlap extremely increases diagram readability and makes it more professional.

Maximal productivity requirements make this system available as a web application that can be opened in any browser and as a classic desktop application, for both Windows and Mac, as well as integrate means of collaboration on the created diagrams. With Grapholite you can easily access your diagrams, your colleagues' diagrams from any computer without spending time for installation of the additional software.

The goal to make drawing a picture ACTUALLY EASIER then writing a thousand words is achieved!

Eugene Akinshin is an experienced C# .NET & Silverlight developer, co-founder of Perpetuum Software, Grapholite. Works with .NET since its first version. Strongly interested in new technologies he believes that Silverlight is a technology of future.

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