Why you shouldn't use MS Visio....

Why don't people use MSExcel for running their accounting systems? Seems a silly, slightly ridiculous question. It's quite obvious

• MSExcel is a single user, desktop based solution.
• There is little or no control of versions of the spreadsheets, access rights or any audit trail.
• Thre is no structure or integrity of the numbers in different cells
• It is difficult to share a single instance of the numbers in real-time with multiple people in disparate locations
• It is impossible to see the relationships between the numbers and supporting transactions or documents

Your processes and their related documents are the DNA of your business - a valuable business asset, but not on the balance sheet. So why would you use MSVisio to manage data which is considered by many to be of equal value to your accounting data.

There are strong parallels.

Just as you should not be using MSExcel and should be using a proven robust Accounting package for your accounts, you should be using an application designed for for managing process and process related documentation, rather than MSVisio.

It's not your fault. You just didn't know control-ES existed. But don't worry. control-ES can import MSVisio.