FlowBreeze is now available in two editions Standard and Basic Flowcharting Software.
The Basic Edition was created in response to customer demand for a light weight version of the product at a reduced price. It still utilizes the same, highly productivity text-to-symbol engine. But the Basic edition has a simplified start window, is limited to black […]

FlowBreeze 2.0 was released a week ago. Very quietly. No formal announcemnent was made on the site. No press release was sent out. No current users were notified. I admit, it’s kind of a strange way of launching a major revision, but I had my reasons.
The biggest issue was testing. With 4 Microsoft Office versions, […]

In lieu of a full preview of FlowBreeze 2.0, I have posted the help file online. A firm release date has not been set, but an October launch is most likely. The full list of new features and improvements will be posted soon, but the following is a sampling of some of the more […]

Without much fanfare, BreezeTree Software released FlowBreeze v1.4 the other day. I’ll get to the fanfare bit later. The following is a summary of the changes.
New Features

Apply Styles: Applies the default styles to all the flowchart symbols and lines in the drawing.
Toggle Gridlines: By default FlowBreeze hides the gridlines. This simply lets you toggle them […]

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
As I battled the demons towards the planned launch of FlowBreeze 2.0, I stumbled upon Clarke Ching’s Rolling Rocks Downhill, a business novel about Agile Development in the tradition of Eliyahu Goldratt’s The Goal. It’s a […]

I wanted to say Thanks! to all the BreezeTree customers who have made this a great first year.
The first six months were a little slow, but after the release of FlowBreeze 1.2, sales really started to pick up. FlowBreeze (a Flowchart Generator for Excel) has benefited from a lot of word of mouth marketing. Plus, […]

FlowBreeze 2.0 gets a new Start Flowcharting prompt. The old Start Flowcharting prompt only allowed you to set the start Terminator symbol text and location. The new window makes that optional, plus it allows you to create a set the page properties, show/hide the Excel grid lines, and either create a simple grid or […]

As version 2.0 of FlowBreeze nears release I will preview new features. This first feature preview is the save as Picture function in the new Export tool. The Save As picture tool allows you to save just the flowchart as a picture or select both the flowchart and a range of cells. Actually, there doesn’t […]

FlowBreeze build 1.3.42 was released today with the following fixes:

FlowBreeze now supports symbols with over 255 characters.
One character prefixes were being interpreted as node labels for circular Connector symbols. So, prefixes such as Q:, T:, and P: were incorrectly generating Connectors. The order of evaluation has been changed so prefixes are detected before applying other […]

There is a known bug in several anti-virus products made by Computer Associates (and distributed to AOL customers) that is effecting some users of FlowBreeze. The problem becomes apparent when you click the FlowBreeze buttons to open the Settings window, Start Flowcharting, or try to register the software.
Computer Associates/AOL are reportedly going to release a […]

FlowBreeze build 1.3.40 has been released. The following bugs were fixed:

Bug: Turning off prompt for start terminator still resulted in being prompted. Fixed.
Bug: Turning off prompt for stop terminator still resulted in being prompted. Fixed.
Bug: Clicking Cancel on terminator prompt locked up Excel. Terminator prompt turns off Excel screen updating for faster rendering. Clicking Cancel […]

If you’re one of the early adopters of Excel 2007, then FlowBreeze is ready for you. The flow chart add-in for Excel is now Excel 2007 compatible. Excel now has a Ribbon replacing the classic menus and toolbars, but the FlowBreeze toolbar is still accessible under the Add-Ins tab of the Ribbon.
More info (and pictures!) […]

Why flowchart with FlowBreeze? Ask yourself these questions…

Do you need to standardize your business processes?
Do you want to run your business the E-Myth way, like a franchise?
Would you like a tool that is intuitive and easy to learn?
Would you like a tool that lets you add analysis to your process flow diagramming?
Would you like to […]

Just a quick announcement … FlowBreeze 1.2 has been released, with the set of features list in the previous post. The press release is coming soon.

At quick note on the pending release of FlowBreeze Standard Flowchart Software, version 1.2 …
Version 1.2 will be released soon. It is a small revision, but it includes some of the most requested feature changes:

Ability to vary the symbol width (in FlowBreeze 1.0 the symbols are a fixed width).
Choice of fixed width and fixed […]

You should always be honest with your customers because transparency is the foundation upon which good customer relations are built. So when several people have asked about my newsletter sign-ups, I have been honest about it. The bottom line is, I’m trying to convert clicks into sales. Clicks don’t always convert into sales immediately, so […]