Visio Primary Use Case
Primarily, I employ it for business analysis purposes. In my previous role as a business analyst, I utilized it for process analysis, management, and the creation of visual representations such as flow diagrams. Working in telecom domains and government sectors, Visio proved valuable for presenting processes through flow diagrams and interactive use cases.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for products, planning, and scheduling. We're using it with Microsoft BI for analytics.
We use the solution for structured preparation for various functions and with our HR team. We also use it for business process automation.
View full review »I use it for diagramming networks, racks, data centers, data flow applications, etc.
I am using its latest version. We have an M-365 membership, so we can access it in the cloud, but we download the application because it works better.
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March 2024
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Kim Dijkstra
Technical manager at Koninklijke Bam Groep N.v.
I work for BAM, which is the largest builder in the Netherlands. We have approximately 24,000 employees and we have a centralized IT that provides all products for our company. I use the solution for organizing many different types of visuals graphics. It has the ability to make drawings quickly with links, flowcharts, and organizational drawings.
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reviewer2142177
Product Director at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This tool is mainly used by our engineers for network layout designs, to either document what's being deployed for a customer or to put together a proposal. We use it as a tool to graphically depict the network we're proposing to the customers showing what it will look like and which components will be included. We are customers of Visio and I'm the product director with sector security.
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Scot McGee
Manager of Enterprise Architecture at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use it for high-level detailed and high-level conceptual drawings for leadership. I also use it for small drawings when I'm doing documentation, policy creation, or building some kind of a spec.
It is installed on my personal machine. In terms of the version, my Office suite is 19, so I assume the Visio version is whatever is packaged with Office 19 suite.
View full review »I utilized Visio to craft visual aids for my presentations, including diagrams that visually illustrate data, such as flowcharts. Additionally, the solution was used to generate diagrams that showcase a series of connected ideas using arrow charts.
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reviewer2083653
Head IT Enterprise Architecture - make Digitization a priority at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use this solution for documenting architectures and workflows.
It's a rich-client application, so it's deployed on-premises.
There are about 10 people who use this solution in my organization. We would use it more if the solution were less expensive.
In the future, I will have other licensing models for infrequent users so that they can pay per use for the solution.
We use the solution primarily for making high-level and low-level diagrams and making any other diagrams that might have some items available that we can quickly turn around architecture with.
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John Samuel
Security Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am using Visio for migration and application development. Additionally, we did a Microsoft Azure landing zone for companies to implement CICD pipelines.
We typically do hybrid deployments because of the data security issues that can arise. However, there is a lot of opportunity coming for native cloud deployments.
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Dawn McClure
IT Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily use the solution for tasks such as work charts, network diagrams, and process flows.
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Xavier-Rodriguez
Infrastructure Architect at CandX Consulting
Company-wide, it is used a lot for flow charts. From an IT perspective, we use it quite a bit for network diagrams and documentation. The Human Resources team uses it for organizational charts.
In terms of deployment, we have a kind of mixed deployment. I tend to use an on-prem version that is loaded directly on my machine. We are all Office 365, so a bulk of our users use it as a cloud-based downloadable solution, which is a part of their Office 365 implementation.
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Andrew-Lim
Managing Director at Optus
I have used Visio Professional to model business process to BPMN 2.0 standard in the Logistic and Insurance Industry. Visio has been an easy-to-use modeling tool for Logistic processes, Complaints processes, Compensation Recoveries processes, Insurance processes, and Finance processes. The modeling of the As-Is process allows process analysis to design an efficient To-be process.
View full review »I use the solution in my company for Microsoft Active Directory and for monitoring purposes.
I use the solution to make graphs and schemas for infrastructure, application, and documentation.
We use the tool for creating system plans and some hardware equipment structure.
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RamnathThippasandra
Executive Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I use Visio for pretty much all of my landscape diagrams and for anything for management reporting, particularly on the technical side.
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Dennis Lynster
Principal Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees
The solution is primarily used for diagramming. I use it for a couple of different things, however, it's mostly for diagramming and documenting data center infrastructure including racks, wide area networks, logical designs, physical designs, and conceptual models.
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reviewer1537254
Executive Director, Global Technology Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We use Visio extensively for creating architecture, network and workflow diagrams. Also used for UML Class diagrams and various types of flow charts
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Kerry Smith
Sr. Industrial Hygienist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I am a health and safety professional. I use it for flowcharting, but I also use it for drawing diagrams.
I will do a technical assessment of a workplace scenario of equipment as well as noise measurements, and I will use Visio to draw out the scale.
There are many images that you can put in there and data to create images of workplace exposures.
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reviewer1331349
IT infrastructure manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
I use Visio for high-level network design, and I use it for home planning since it is easy to use.
View full review »We use the application for process mapping through architecture. It helps visualize the activities and interactions between 3,000 different systems on the network.
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MelvinEstrada
President at Estrada Technology Associates LLC
I use Visio for visual rendering of technical concepts. I use the stencils that depict different workflows, data flows, or architectural structures from an IT perspective that I could render in other documents like PowerPoint or Word documents.
View full review »I use the solution for process mapping and improvement.
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reviewer1627173
Computing Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I wrote some Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripts in the background to graph with my stencils and use the database at the back. In general, I'm using stencils, and I'm using Excel database in the background. With those tables, I am able to grab the data out in the stencils, and then I place it Visio. So, the main drawing area is in Visio, but it uses data in the background.
I am not using its latest version. I am using one version back.
View full review »We primarily use Visio for creating business process diagrams and flowcharts.
I use Visio for designing diagrams and flowcharts. It is user-friendly and easy to use compared to other options. Although many people in my company use AutoCAD, I am not familiar with it. For all the designing, charts, and diagrams, I use Visio. If someone requests an AutoCAD format, I will design it in Visio and then forward it to our team who is responsible for converting it to a CAD file.
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Dwayne McKie
Business Process Manager at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I primarily use Visio for creating mind maps and other visualizations.
I also use it for process modeling, but we are searching for a specific business process modeler because Visio doesn't have the full scope of capability that we need.
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Vaibhav-Kumar
Assistant Manager in Strategic Consulting at Metlife
Our primary use case for Visio revolves around business process re-engineering, as-is process, to-be-processed, and then time and motion study, value stream mapping, and in collaboration with everything together.
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reviewer1392906
Lead Enterprise Domain Architects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Visio is used as a diagramming software for ITM.
I use the tool mainly for project tracking. I also use it for the system design of sequence diagrams and the like.
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SUJAI EDWIN
SQL Server Developer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The company uses Visio for a maintenance project occasionally. I use Visio for infrastructure architecture and create data models on it.
View full review »My primary use case is for designing the architecture diagram and the network diagram.
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reviewer1628574
Senior Director, Digital Engg. & Enterprise Arch. at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are end users of this solution. I'm a senior director of the company and a digital engineer.
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reviewer1621242
Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We use Visio for mapping all the processes. It is a BPMN solution for us.
We are most probably using its latest version.
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Santosh Kurakula
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa
Visio is mainly used for documentation purposes. For example, drawing flow charts or network diagrams. It can also be used for defining schemas or application development.
In my organization, people from multiple departments use it, especially the IT team. They prepare documentation on the network architecture. Additionally, the data team uses it to create flow charts, sequence diagrams, and schemas.
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reviewer1505394
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I'm an architect; I primarily use Visio for drawing diagrams.
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reviewer1498929
Data Center Design Architect at a tech company with 201-500 employees
I build either diagrams for solutions or use Visio to create illustrations for slide decks and white papers.
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reviewer1266000
Director of Mortgage Banking Projects at a writing and editing position with 1-10 employees
My use case could be anything. What I like to use Visio for is business process design work. Even when we're doing a systems implementation project, I'll use it. One of the things that I tell my clients is that "Before you implement a system, you really need to check your business processes that the system is automating, to make sure that you're not automating a bad process." Therefore, we have a whole methodology on how to do business process design sessions, facilitated sessions. The outcome of those sessions is documented largely in Vizio.
Sometimes, for example, if I've got a good person working on my team, I'll be with the client, facilitating the session and we'll have sticky notes on the wall that represent the process steps, and the outcomes, and the inputs, and all that stuff. We'll be moving those around. And then somebody on my team will be sitting there with Visio, recreating it as we go. If they aren't able to do that, we just take pictures of it and then recreate it in Visio. We clean it up and make it nice looking. However, we use Visio primarily for business and/or project process flows.
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reviewer1326891
Lead Process Improvement Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
As process improvement professional I map out current state processes either at the value stream or swim lane level, at times both. With current state I identify pain points and bottlenecks do root cause analysis, identify possible solutions, and make recommendations on which ones I think would be the most effective. Then incorporate them into a proposed future state.
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reviewer2276622
Technical Sales Specialist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We use the product for business modeling and workflow design.
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reviewer1616451
Solution Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Our primary use case of this product is to create diagrams for the solutions I'm designing. Others may use it to provide graphical explanations of complex topics, or even for organizational charts. We have around 20 users in very different roles - IT, processing, design, or those in more technical roles. We are a customer of Visio and I'm a solution architect.
View full review »We mostly use this solution for process management and for diagram modeling. Functional diagrams or BPMN partition diagrams — that's all. Some nice drawings for presentations.
Almost all of our employees use bundled Microsoft products and because they have no administrative rights, they cannot install additional programs. We use Visio to present our diagrams to our employees as it's too complicated to explain how to use our services over and over. If we had a BPM platform and a diagram modeling solution, we would not use Visio.
Within our organization, there are roughly 100 people that use this solution.
I am not sure if our company has plans to keep using Visio — it's not up to me. If we were to stop using it, I wouldn't miss it.
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Michael Barg
Principal Consultant at Lexington Consulting
I use Visio when I'm writing a client report in Microsoft Word, and I want to put in a simple graphic to supplement the text or better explain something. Visio's graphics are not complicated. They're quick and easy to create, so I use them mainly for what I would call static graphics, like simple charts and diagrams.
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KrishnaPriya
VP of Products at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
I use Visio to elaborate on the workflows and use cases that I see for my product, and also to illustrate specific processes for users of the product. In essence, I use Visio to help visually represent processes and as a communication tool that lets me explain things to end users in a simple manner.
At the same time, I also use Visio as a base from which to communicate with my technical team so that they are able to better understand the user's perspective while they are developing the product. I use it on both fronts, especially since I have been in a role which is more on the consulting side while having to liaise with both the end users and the technical team. For all these use cases, Visio has been a key tool which has been very helpful to me.
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Dwayne McKie
Business Process Manager at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I'm the business process manager and we are customers of Visio.
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Pete-Fotopoulos
VP of Networking and Infrastructure at NJA LLC
I use Visio for diagramming configurations.
View full review »I'm into designing, so I'm using Visio for creating diagrams. Mostly it's for network, architecture, or data flow diagrams, depending on what the customers need.
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David Jaques-Watson
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I usually use Visio for really high-level conceptual modeling. Ironically, this works well with iServer. But, I use Visio for conceptual modeling since it makes it easy to draw things and is not as strict. This is because, at the conceptual level, one is not properly familiar with the details or constraints. This way, a business person would be able to critique something as being incorrect or not linked or drawn properly.
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Arancha Cortes Guasch
Founder at AC Lean
I analyze and model processes for optimization. We are customers of Visio and I'm a founder of the company, working as a process consultant.
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reviewer1371327
Power Electronics Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I'm using only this tool for our full architecture block diagram development. We're using it for our action projects, what are we are running.
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Simona Machačová
Process engineer at Siemens Industry
My primary use case of Visio is diagramming. It's useful for diagramming any type of process you would want to describe.
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Jim Hawkins
Process Improvement Consultant/Business Analyst at Sherpa Consulting
I am working as a business analyst and I used Visio for process mapping.
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Alberto Hidalgo
Project Development at INECO
I primarily use the solution to make new core designs. I connect the designs to the projects I'm involved with.
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Elsedeeck Elrayes
Business Process Management Specialist and Business Continuity Management Coordinator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for business process design.
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Xiaoqing Zou
Integration developer at Blackwoods
We use the solution mainly for designing purposes. It helps us design activity charts, sequential charts, and other diagrams.
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Kayle Oliver
Business App Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Without this product, I would struggle to do my work. That is as a business analyst. I use it to develop all of my processes.
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Shelley Engen
HRIS Specialist at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am an HRIS (Human Resources Information Systems) specialist. I use Visio for a variety of things.
- I do work charts on it.
- I do WiX (Windows Installer XML).
- I do all swim lane mappings.
- I do process mapping.
That pretty much covers it.
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reviewer1021524
Deputy Manager, Quality Assurance at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Mostly, we're using the solution for working with objects and network diagrams and all the charts. I'm the deputy manager of quality assurance and we are customers of Visio.
View full review »I use Visio to go to meetings on Zoom.
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Shankar HN
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications
I use Visio for all my network diagrams. For example, I think of certain concepts that I need to communicate with my clients. I use it for this purpose. I also am an adjunct professor at one of the universities in Bangalore. Suppose I want to create a big chart or a mindmap; that's when I use Visio.
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Guy Meyongo
IT/Business Architect at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We use Visio for architecture modeling. We also use it to facilitate communication with other people.
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reviewer1014486
Facility director at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
My primary use case of this solution is for process mapping and a little for organizational charts. We are customers of Visio.
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reviewer1655025
Portfolio Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Visio in my organization to create architecture diagrams.
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reviewer2354703
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We use Visio for some digitalization projects we have.
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reviewer1446360
Project Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use Visio for process diagram.
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Venkatesh Mulabagilu
Digital Enterprise Architect at DXC
I use it to create architecture diagrams.
View full review »We primarily use Visio as a flow chart software solution.
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DelMan34546
Delivery Manager at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
This solution is primarily used for architecture diagramming, process flow, and process mapping. We work on engineering projects, including software development projects, and this solution is used to create proposals for customers.
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Jaleel AhmedGulammohiddin
Solution Architect and a Cloud Architect at Jasmaf
The primary use case for Visio involves database modeling and designing software architecture patterns. We use it to create strategic layers, business architecture, and application and technology architectures.
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reviewer1654677
Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
My primary use case for Visio is network diagrams to document our local and wide area networks. We also use it from time to time to document business processes and logical systematic processes.
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Majd Abbassi
Managing Director at The Benchmark Company
The primary use case of this solution is for process mapping, and to streamline simulations.
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EntArch3587
Enterprise Architect Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees
Documenting the enterprise architecture.
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Brian Ray
Systems Engineer at Perspecta
I use this solution as a graphic design tool for breaking down a flow or process. I'm a systems engineer and customer of Visio.
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Lucio Tirone
SKA LOW AIW Lead Engineer at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
We use Visio for describing processes, port authorities, requests, exchange of documents, and authorizations. The main use is for business processes and descriptions.
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reviewer1288554
Integration Architect at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
The primary use case is modeling architecture requirements.
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reviewer1655238
NOC Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
We do not use the latest version.
I am a network engineer and we use the solution for drawing network diagrams.
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reviewer1542180
Management Consulting Director at a consultancy with 201-500 employees
I'm a business management consultant.
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reviewer1295343
Partenaire, CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I use it to design business models, cyber defense portals, and pictures. We are using the latest version of Visio.
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Mohamed Jerm
Management Analysis and Control Advisor at VdM
Process modeling.
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reviewer1345620
Systems Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
I mostly use it for network diagrams. It is a standard solution for creating this kind of stuff.
View full review »- We design architectural and business flows for web/eCommerce and ERP systems.
- We design web architectures, UML, and ERD.
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reviewer1229226
Operations Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I like to use Visio because it gives me a quick view of the things I had to put in a model for a company. I don't use it as an interface, though.
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Visio
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Visio. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.