CS-Odessa releases 1.8 version of ConceptDraw Standard and Professional, providing with XML for ConceptDraw

Odessa, Ukraine - May 22nd, 2002 - Computer Systems Odessa Corp. today shipped version 1.8 of its award-winning ConceptDraw Standard and Professional applications, providing with built-in XML for ConceptDraw. Powerful graphics editor and export capabilities of the latest version have been extended by the open format support, which offers enhanced data exchange opportunities and makes ConceptDraw a platform for developers. CS-Odessa current users find that they dramatically reduce the time and effort spent on creating and sharing their diagramming and flowcharting projects with the help of ConceptDraw product family.

The update is free to registered users of Standard and Professional editions at: http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/resources/CD/update.php

"We are proud to say that ConceptDraw has entered a new stage of development," - said Oleg Bocharnikov, Product Manager of ConceptDraw Standard and Professional. - "With implementing XML for ConceptDraw developers obtain the opportunity to use our programs as a tool to visualize their data."

CONCEPTDRAW 1.8 VERSION CHANGES

Both Standard and Professional editions offer built-in XML for ConceptDraw. Thus, our programs obtain an open format, which allows for data visualization. XML lets describe all necessary properties of ConceptDraw documents allowing a third-party application read ConceptDraw data without losing anything. Likewise, any other program can generate XML for ConceptDraw and describe its own documents in it. Then data from such program are easily visualized in ConceptDraw.

Users working on the Macintosh platform can copy/paste objects across the applications of the ConceptDraw line via the system Clipboard. A number of minor bugs are fixed by 1.8 edition.

The complete list of enhancements and improvements is available online at: http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/resources/versionch/vers175ch18.shtml

ConceptDraw Standard and Professional demo versions are free to try at: http://www.conceptdraw.com/download/