Architosh Staff (info@architosh.com)

19 Sep 2001

Odessa releases Pro version of ConceptDraw

Architosh Press Report: CS-ODESSA RELEASES CONCEPTDRAW PROFESSIONAL

Odessa, Ukraine - September 17, 2001 - In order to extend ConceptDraw line of Productivity Software, Computer Systems Odessa Corp. releases Professional Edition of ConceptDraw - the leading cross-platform diagramming solution for business and technical drawing. Professional Edition is available for Mac OS/Mac OS X and Windows. The full version costs $249. The upgrade fee for owners of ConceptDraw Standard is $125.

ConceptDraw Professional was designed to provide IT and technical professionals with comprehensive functionality for creating complex technical drawings, which can be seamlessly shared across the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Rich task-specific libraries, streamlined interface and support for additional graphic formats enable project managers, engineers, network administrators, developers and researchers to quickly and easily cope with sophisticated diagramming tasks, document diverse structures and create schematic illustrations. At the same time Professional Edition allows to exchange documents with MS Visio and AutoCAD users and integrate ConceptDraw diagrams into PowerPoint presentations.

Professional Edition adds:

- Over 25 additional libraries for such areas as Network Diagrams, Process Engineering, Chemical, Electrical Engineering.

- Compatibility with CAD applications thanks to import/export support for DXF format, plus support for several more graphic formats.

- Outline support allows to generate a chart from its textual description and save the drawing in a textual format.

- Data exchange with PowerPoint, which lets import PowerPoint presentations and turn ConceptDraw drawings into PowerPoint slide shows and presentations.

- Improved MS Visio Data Exchange including conversion of ConceptDraw documents to Visio files.

- Streamlined interface.

Professional Edition is available in English. German, French, Spanish and Italien versions are planned for release.

Additional information on the Professional Edition of ConceptDraw can be found at: http://www.conceptdraw.com/professional/

Architosh Analysis: The Odessa folks are really working hard these days. The company continues to release new products and enhancements to a growing line of superb software across a dizzying array of platforms, including all versions of Windows from Win95 and up to Mac OS and OS X. The Pro version screen shots are very nice and give you a good idea about the complexity and sophistication of this software. They are also all in OS X format. Nice looking software!