draw.io

We use draw.io on occasion as a flowchart tool. It is useful to illustrate processes, workflows, and various pipelines. It's not a tool that we use on a daily basis, but it is useful both for brainstorming flows and to deliver a final cleaned-up version that can then be embedded in presentations or wiki pages.

• Better communication of complex flows.
• It has helped during brainstorming sessions to illustrate how ideas are linked together.
• The PC app is free and easy to use, giving it a positive ROI even if it's used occasionally.

Miro and Microsoft Visio

Miro, Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence

I normally use draw.io to create the architectural diagrams. to-be conceptual diagrams, workflow diagrams, flowcharts, data flows, and entity relationship diagrams—generally, from a business analysis and the project management standpoint, this tool provides the images, logos, and shapes that are required to show the relationships/flows. On top of that, the tool is also quite flexible to embed in the Atlassian Confluence pages to create the documentation for the application as well as structural docs and playbooks, or we can say runbooks, for engineers. You can also import custom images, logos, and PNG files for some applications that are not available in the preset. We also use this under technical aspect for using it as a reference for those teammates who are getting onboarded to our team and having the clear diagrams and figures helps in explaining the working models of processes we follow as a team.

• Stakeholders that are visual learners are able to understand the technical information on a high-level diagram due to them loading on time and simplified design features.
• It's not adding up to the company's opex or capex cost, as the tool comes embedded for free of cost in Confluence pages.
• The low amount of required training time makes it easy for new employees to learn this quite easily without taking much time.

Miro, Microsoft Visio and Whimsical

Miro

I mostly use the draw.io to create flow diagrams for the userflows and some architecture diagrams as well.

Draw.io is so much helpful when there are complex flows and can't put in words to explain to team.

I use it so much to share the flows and thoughts of mine with the team or to explain some thing to the team.

• Limited advanced collaboration features
• As a free and open-source tool, there’s no dedicated vendor support. Troubleshooting or setup issues depend on internal IT or community resources
• When diagrams are stored locally or in shared drives, version confusion can occur (multiple people editing outdated copies).

Miro and SmartDraw

Miro, Excalidraw+

Draw.io is used to create all of the company's diagrams (architecture diagrams, business process diagrams, inter-application exchange diagrams, etc.).It's a tool used daily, either for saving diagrams or using drafts/whiteboards during meetings to explain concepts. All diagrams are saved to preserve the source code and allow for later modification. The export function is used to integrate the diagrams into meeting minutes or deliverables.

• Time savings in the creation and maintenance of project diagrams
• Facilitates understanding during framing workshops
• A tool for simplifying complex issues through diagrams.

Notion, Microsoft Powerpoint and ARIS

Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Notepad++, Trello, Google Translate, ChatGPT, Audacity

In Numerator we use draw.io to create flowcharts, diagrams and organizational charts. We have been using draw.io to create decision tree and workflow of a certain project. It really helps us to clarify some of the complex and challenging business decisions. It make things very clear when we understand it through a diagram made on draw.io.

• The templates offered by draw.io is very useful for me and my organization to quickly create any diagram.
• We can collaborate in real-time with other users with the help of shared cursor.
• Drag and Drop feature is one of my favorite.

• draw.io has surely impacted our organization positively by saving some crucial time.
• It has not really impacted much monetarily to be honest.
• The ROI we got from draw.io is that it has made complex things clear for everyone in our organization.

Microsoft Visio

Keka HR, Atlassian Confluence, Slack, Jira Software