Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Visio

388 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Visio	Score7.8 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft offers Visio, a diagramming tool for building flowcharts, diagrams (e.g. network diagrams), org charts and floor plans, available online as a subscription and also in enterprise level packages (e.g. Visio Professional).	$5 per month per user

Pricing

Microsoft Visio

Visio Plan 1: $5.00
per month per user
Visio Plan 2: $15.00
per month per user
Visio Standard 2024: $309.99
one-time fee On-premises diagramming solution, licensed for one PC
Visio Professional 2024: $579.99
one-time fee On-premises diagramming solution, licensed for one PC

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Visio
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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	Microsoft Visio
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Alexandre Bottollier Founder and Head of Communications at AurorAlpes (Research, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio has well built-in templates. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Most other drawing tools were vendor specific and did not cover anything more than their specific products. Saving and exporting for use with other programs were also a challenge or non existent. Trying to find products that covered physical as well as logical were hard to find … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is easier to use compared to the other one Incentivized Helpful? David Castro Network Architect in Information Technology at TTEC (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is a desktop app, while the ones mentioned are browser native apps, starting from here both work differently. Microsoft Visio is a great app for any company whether small, medium or large since there are so many use cases for it, and you can provide individual … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio SmartDraw was a program that I used at a prior company before we migrated to Visio. It was not nearly as intuitive to use, and even though it is advertised to be able to offer easy import and export to Visio, when I would export it to a Visio file format and share it with a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio stacks up against other tools, because it is a professional tool with standard icons and a nice template library for all my needs. The tool provides many diagrams for many engineering purposes, from simple flow charts to more complex diagrams. The usage of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is familiar, drawings look better, easier to integrate with office Incentivized Helpful? Tim Kikke Head of PMO in Information Technology at Kerv (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is somewhat more rigid that the other tools I mentioned, which can definitely be a good thing. Also the cross functional swim diagram in Microsoft Visio is more advanced. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Visio works offline and is the only way to send an editable copy to an external stakeholder. However, I find myself using an Online tool much more frequently due to the ease of use and ability to collaborate, including live drafting and co-creation during meetings. Overall, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio defaults to more professional looking diagrams and has a simpler UX/UI, however it lacks hugely on the collaboration and engineering design templates side of things. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is easier to use than MindManager from the user experience. Whilst MindManager is lightweight and supports the browser which make it great with sharing diagrams, its display with information is not always intuitive especially when it becomes too nested. For … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Cost benefit is significant with Microsoft Visio vs Miro, as it is included in the MS 365 Suite. While it has less capability overall than Miro, for flowcharts specifically it is great. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is a much more improved software. Its technological features are very advanced compared to the ones from other softwares. It makes it easy to create work of quality, to analyze and visualize any process or data and generate ideas of any kind. It is the easiest … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio We still use SketchUp for certain things - especially where the library of existing elements and drawings can be more easily grabbed and manipulated for our needs. Vectorworks is used by some of our main clients, and for theatrical lighting it’s the best out there. We also have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio I have personally never used or evaluated other programs similar to Microsoft Visio. I started using it following an indication from a colleague who told me that our University distributes it free of charge to its users. Since I first used it (more or less three years ago), I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Publisher is more generic and while it is able to do what we need, Microsoft Visio allows us to do the same thing using less time and higher accuracy with features like custom icon sets, ease of linking and maintaining links to denote work flows as well as scaling up without … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio I feel like they all can play an important role in your organization's success but for those who are comfortable with the Microsoft suite of tools, I would choose Visio. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Other paid services have rather better aesthetics and template/graphic support compared to Visio. However, Visio is a clear winner being a part of the Microsoft family and the positives it brings along such as collaboration, service, etc. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio MS visio has the advantange of having variety stencils across all the OEM, I create the visual reprenstation of exact network design Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Guzzi Information Systems Administrator in Information Technology at South Carolina State Library (Libraries, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft Visio Visio is easier to use however a smart draw is a wonderful tool with some unique libraries. Visio, however, is a little easier to license, install and manage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Chose it for the ease of use, the professionalism of the exported visuals, and the quick and easy learning curve. I personally use Adobe Illustrator for some of the more complex graphics needed, as I've been using that platform for years; but training contractors and clients … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio We have used Lucid charts in the past, Lucid chart does the job well. Microsoft Visio has more templates and seamless integration with MS word and excel. Both of the software does the diagram and charting pretty well but Visio is costly in comparison to Lucid charts. If you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio is very user-friendly and has many options for the created to use in order to get to their final product. The tool helps to get complex ideas into a visual design, therefore making it easier for other team members to understand the message you are trying to … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Foster Director, Marketing Operations in Marketing at Many (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Microsoft Visio Even though it’s a more expensive solution, Vizio is built for the enterprise. Therefore, it integrates perfectly with our existing Microsoft stack, and quite frankly, because it’s such a more mature product, it provides exactly the functionality we need and expect. Incentivized Helpful? Saul Tarazona CEO (Chief Executive Officer) at String Group (Fundraising, 1-10 employees) Chose Microsoft Visio Well, I have more than 25 years of experience with all MS products since MS Windows was launched; the user interphase has changed to improve and accommodate the new feature requirements as they come along. Overall, MS Office is coming to have a single experience but separating … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	90% Would buy again 54 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	98% Delivers good value for the price 53 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	93% Happy with the feature set 56 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	97% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 36 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
97% Implementation went as expected 36 Answers

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Visio
Likelihood to Recommend	8.1 (79 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (14 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (14 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Visio
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Visio is by far and away the best tool that I have used to do Value Stream Mapping sessions with the warehouse I support. It has all of the shapes needed built in to be able to represent all areas of the processes. I also like how you are able to make the drawing as big as needed and when printing it out of Visio you have the ability to use the necessary paper size. The biggest complaint that I have with the software if how it can be cumbersome for non-Visio users (that is, people without a license in the orgnaization) to interact with the Visio Map. We normally have to dedicate one Visio SME to be able to make the changes that Process SME's find since they do not have access to the software. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Microsoft Visio is excellent for organizing thought processes related to our more complex research. The diagrams created with Microsoft Visio are ideal for graphically displaying the internal organization of work and research groups through flow diagrams. Microsoft Visio is a great tool for managing our students' activities by creating flowcharts that help us graphically visualize the steps of their group work. Verified User Read full review
Cons	Microsoft When navigating through swim lanes, the user must be careful between switching from the point to the connection features as it can be difficult to remember which mode you’re in. When drawing “decision points,” it can be difficult to type words like “yes” or “no” between the connection lines. The exporting options aren’t ideal. They are hard to create in PDF format. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft We use Microsoft Visio to keep our diagrams updated and to that end we will need the subscription to keep using the software. Otherwise we will be left with PDF versions of the diagrams. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	Microsoft I have always struggled with some basics, such as connection points, object alignment, font consistency, arranging layers and their order (bring forward, send backward), and managing overlap. I usually need to create an initial rough draft and then do a separate cleanup pass to bring the diagram up to my quality standards. If I skip that step, the result generally does not look very good. And once a diagram becomes busy or the file gets large, Visio has been unstable for me in the past, including occasional crashes that caused non-recoverable edits. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft Overall, I feel that Microsoft's support is weak. They are now such a behemoth that their model of putting documentation online for their users to sift through is totally outgrown. Given the amount of money you pay for these licenses, Microsoft should provide easy one-on-one support for their products via email or chat. The idea of paying their rates for support incidents is ridiculous. If you have an enormous amount of time on your hands, use their support websites and you will eventually find a solution most of the time. Incentivized John Mota IT Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Even though it’s a more expensive solution, Vizio is built for the enterprise. Therefore, it integrates perfectly with our existing Microsoft stack, and quite frankly, because it’s such a more mature product, it provides exactly the functionality we need and expect. Incentivized Stephen Foster Director, Marketing Operations Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Reduces the amount of time I need to create process flow diagrams. In the past I would use Powerpoint or Word which required a lot more effort and time and never looked as good. Visio just takes that headache away. Only negative is that I personally believe it should always have been part and parcel of the Office suite, thus giving more users the opportunity to use it rather than specifically having to justify its separate purchase within our organisation. Different now with Office 365 of course! Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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