Datavision™ is a publication planning software tool that is widely used across the healthcare industry to manage publication programmes. Medical writers are one of the key Datavision user groups, and need to know how to use the elements of the tool that are relevant to their tasks and responsibilities. Within Datavision, a medical writer's activities will be focused on the Workbench to manage their assigned projects; the Journals, and Congress database to identify potential targets for discussion with authors; and the Documents management area for managing project specific details, sending out drafts for review and approval, and collating comments and feedback received.