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Microsoft Visio

Overview

What is Microsoft Visio?

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).

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Pricing

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Visio Plan 1

$5.00

Cloud
per month per user

Visio Plan 2

$15.00

Cloud
per month per user

Visio Standard 2024

$309.99

On Premise
one-time fee On-premises diagramming solution, licensed for one PC

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://aka.ms/visio-comparison

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Microsoft Visio?

Microsoft Visio is a solution used to visualize data-connected business process flows, featuring ready-to-use templates and thousands of customizable shapes.​ Use cases might include quickly capturing a flowchart brainstormed on a whiteboard, or mapping an IT network or build an organizational chart.​

Microsoft Visio helps professionals create detailed flowcharts, organizational charts, and network diagrams. With its extensive templates, it simplifies visual data representation. Integrated with Microsoft 365, Visio supports real-time collaboration, making it ideal for business process modeling and IT infrastructure mapping.​

Microsoft Visio Features

Diagramming Features

  • Supported: Flowchart Creation
  • Supported: Drag-and-Drop Functionality
  • Supported: Templates Library
  • Supported: Diagram Collaboration Tools
  • Supported: Custom Styling
  • Supported: Diagram Export and Sharing Options
  • Supported: Revision History
  • Supported: Cross-Platform Access

Microsoft Visio Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesArabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Frequently Asked Questions

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).

Miro, draw.io, and SmartDraw are common alternatives for Microsoft Visio.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Microsoft Visio are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Microsoft Visio for System Development

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 27, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visio
3 years of experience
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.

Business workflows made easy with Visio

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 23, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visio
3 years of experience
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 example, if there are multiple branches, the visualisation becomes quite difficult to read and understand.

Outstanding addition to Microsoft Suite

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visio
4 years of experience
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.

Microsoft Visio, might be the oldest, but still is the benchmark.

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 20, 2022
SF
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visio
15 years of experience
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.

MS Visio - The Communication Tool For Excellence.

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 20, 2022
ST
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Visio
14 years of experience
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 each one of all the specialties in their own target user. Regardless of how close other similar products come to compete with the MS Office marketplace, there is a broad level of certainty MS Office brings to the table that others can get close.
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