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Microsoft Visio

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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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Microsoft Visio for Drawing Creation

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use this software in the engineering department to replace AutoCAD in all new jobs. it has flexibility and the ability to use 3rd party software so that we can create custom templates. It also allows us to compile many things automatically like BOM's instead of manual data entry like with AutoCAD.

Pros

  • charts and diagrams
  • linking items between sheets
  • managing data
  • customizable

Cons

  • sometimes it crashes
  • more sketching features
  • rotating shapes is cumbersome

Return on Investment

  • increases productivity
  • faster to access data
  • easier to track jobs

Alternatives Considered

AutoCAD

Other Software Used

Bluebeam Revu, Microsoft Teams

Quick Review on Microsoft Visio.

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Visio for creating network design diagrams and flowcharts for planning projects and operations. It helps organize processes and represent planning in a concise graphical presentation.

Pros

  • Diagram process flow.
  • Diagram network layout.
  • Graphically represent project progression.

Cons

  • For our use cases we don't see any issues needing improvement at this time.

Return on Investment

  • Visio makes it easy to present the order of a project's progression in a standardized format.
  • Visio also permits precise network diagram functions with industry-standard and, at times, vendor equipment icons.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 Business Premium, N-able MSP Manager, N-able N-central, SpamHero, SentinelOne Singularity, Microsoft Windows, GoodSync, GIMP, Inkscape, TrueNAS, Zendesk Suite, GoDaddy

Microsoft Visio for System Development

Incentivized
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am part of an engineering development team that uses Microsoft Visio for system and use case modelling.

Pros

  • Clean modeling design
  • Good exporting functionality
  • Easy to pick up and use

Cons

  • Collaboration between multiple team members
  • Visio diagram navigation
  • AI incorporation for diagramming assistance

Return on Investment

  • More efficient product definition
  • Better alignment between stakeholders
  • Cleaner documentation (with inclusion of exported Visio diagrams)

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Miro

Other Software Used

Azure DevOps Services, Miro, Microsoft Teams, Figma, ChatGPT

Business workflows made easy with Visio

Incentivized
Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft Visio to help with the visualisation of concepts such as business workflows and diagrams. It also helps us with mind-mapping of ideas during business workshops and discussions with customers. We chose Visio as it integrates well with other Microsoft 365 cloud applications such as Excel. Overall it has improved our documentation process.

Pros

  • Concept visualisation
  • Process documentation
  • Creating flow diagrams

Cons

  • Integration with other 3rd party software such as Mind Manager
  • Better support for Visio Viewer on mobile devices

Return on Investment

  • Saves time by reusing diagrams easily
  • User interface is intuitive for most tasks
  • Product licensing is easy to understand

Usability

Alternatives Considered

MindManager

Other Software Used

MindManager

Outstanding addition to Microsoft Suite

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Human Resources (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Visio is ideal to use for visual mapping. We primarily use it for creating organisational structure maps and process flowcharts. It provides a great easy-to-read visual for presentations or general reference. It can streamline the process by pulling data from an Excel sheet as well, or you can custom make from scratch.

Pros

  • Flowcharts
  • Organisational charts
  • Pulling data from Excel

Cons

  • Initial learning can be tricky
  • Have Excel data pull correctly - it requires a certain format

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI on labour from efficiencies
  • Included in the MS Suite

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Miro

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