why choose visio professional over than visio for my app architect

[lostIntern]

I'm an intern with a company and i have been given the job of researching the
difference between visio 2003 and visio pro 2003 and come up with reasons
that our application architects should use one or the other considering to
costs.

 

[Al Edlund]

you might want to stop and back up a step, there is a third version visio
enterprise architect.
Here is the comparision between standard and pro

http://www.microsoft.com/office/visio/prodinfo/editions.mspx

and here is a more comprehensive view across the family

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301970

understand for forward engineering you require the ea version

Al