Visio Valuable Features

Enas Selim - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Diyar United Company

The primary functionality revolves around the creation of flow diagrams and diverse Building Information Modeling (BIM) using contemporary and pre-established notations. In my perspective, these ready-made notations prove highly beneficial. Despite being a compact tool, it is effective for tasks such as drawing organizational charts, making it a straightforward and uncomplicated tool.               

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SunilAgarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Vice President and Global Head of Research and Development at Bqube Global

The solution is very user-friendly. 

We're using a lot of flowcharts and business process steps. It's quite helpful. We can easily define roles and activities. 

The solution is stable and reliable. 

It's scalable.

Local technical support is helpful.

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Greg Swain - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Solution Architecture at Winslow Technology Group

It is a useful tool to map data flows, network objects, and computer science technology and show to clients. It does what I need it to do. It's a tool I've used the longest, so I know it the best, and that's probably the claim to fame.

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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.
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KD
Technical manager at Koninklijke Bam Groep N.v.

I think the best part of Visio is that you can import drawings very well into Microsoft Word. For example, if you put the Visio drawing into Word, you can double click on it and it opens in Visio. It is a very useful feature and something which I miss switching to Enterprise Architect. In Enterprise Architect, if I import a drawing into Word it does not open the diagram in Enterprise Architect. This is one of the strongest features and the ability to create your own stencils. Additionally, it allowed the importation of AutoCAD drawings which was helpful because I did not have AutoCAD installed on my laptop.

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DE
Product Director at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution has many readily available shapes and icons. Visio is a kind of industry-standard to some extent. Many companies have icon sets that can be imported into Visio and then used for network graphics or to specifically show a manufacturer's product model number. It's very useful. Visio has always been a pretty good product with continual updates. There will often be new features you didn't know you needed but once they're included, you can't imagine being without them. They're on the right track as far as I'm concerned.

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Basil Jaeggy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solutions Architect at Helvetia Versicherungen

The solution is easy to set up.

The stability is okay. The performance is pretty good.

It's a very flexible solution. 

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SM
Manager of Enterprise Architecture at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

What I like about it is that the templates are easily findable and usable, and they are usually created for other software packages. It seems to be pretty much widely adopted in the industry. 

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Kanchi Kh - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at Christ University

A major benefit of Visio is its user-friendliness. Upon opening the program, you have access to a variety of pre-made templates, saving you time and effort. All you need to do is input your data into the template and you're ready to proceed with your project.

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SS
Head IT Enterprise Architecture - make Digitization a priority at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The usability in general is good. The integration of uploading custom stencils is also very nice.

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JS
Security Manager at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature of Visio is the credential management, endpoint manager, and active directory for Microsoft Azure for our hybrid infrastructure. Additionally, there are plenty of features available.

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DM
IT Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It's pretty basic and fun to use.

You can go to YouTube and watch training videos. There's lots of information online about the product.

The solution can scale.

The product is quite stable.

It's my understanding that the initial setup is straightforward.

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XR
Infrastructure Architect at CandX Consulting

A lot of built-in templates are really phenomenal. The templates assist in translating very complex design elements into understandable diagrams that non-technical folks can grasp.

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AL
Managing Director at Optus

The ability to create BPMN Diagrams with the Visio Professional, the ability to import Rules from the BPMN 2.0 Rule Set, and Check the diagram according to the BPMN 2.0 rules are the most valuable features.

The Align features are easy to use and keep the diagram neat and tidy as you model the business process with the stakeholders in process discovery workshops. You need to be pretty competent to be able to map the process on the spot.

The access to commonly used features with the right click of the mouse and F8 (Align) are the best features.

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Zandile Mushi - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Mzansi Security and Fire

The most valuable features of the solution revolve around the ease of deployment it offers. It is also easy to understand about the product and its deployment process. I enjoy the fact that since Visio is a Microsoft product, everything is linked and synchronized in our company's environment.

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Martin Zwarthoed - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Specialist at Zwarthoed IT Solutions

I have used it for so long that it is the product that I can work my best with. It has a lot of features compared to other competitors. The product provides a lot of flexibility in writing graphs and customizing them. It has a lot of stencils that we can use to make it seamless. I haven't seen that in other products.

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RT
Executive Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Visio has been something that I've been using for many, many years. It is ideal for putting out flowcharts and swim charts. It's really good. It has all the various options to use, particularly depending on what kind of audience you have. It provides you different kinds of options to insert the pictures and explain things. It really suited my requirements and I love it.

I have been able to get most of my things done using what's already been provided. It comes with a lot of functionality.

Another good thing I like about it is that it is already in the cloud. It's well integrated and I don't have any additional requirements at this point.

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DL
Principal Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees

The product itself is useful due to the fact that it's widely accepted. I can go out on the internet and I can pull down stencils in VisioCafe. I can easily get pre-drawn stencils for whatever I need and that makes life a lot easier.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

The solution is stable. 

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NR
Executive Director, Global Technology Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I like the way you can Hyperlink objects to a URL, local file or other tabs within the same diagram. I use this to create an Overview tab with a high level digram and then link objects in the Overview to other tabs with more detail on that object. You can also save the diagram as a html page and then host on a local server to create an interactive diagram. You can also automate the creation of diagrams with PowerShell

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KS
Sr. Industrial Hygienist at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It works really well for flowcharting, it can label.

Also, being able to pull the finished drawing out and put it in a Word document is easy, and very useful.

It allowed me to do some things and save them really well. And I found many different things to do with it. It's beyond flowcharting.

The latest version has taken some transitioning and it's a bit of a workaround, but it's also been good. I found the ctrl 1,2,3 buttons that I didn't know about and have been very useful. If you hit ctrl 3 it lets you do your line draw.

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AA
IT infrastructure manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

With Visio, one of its core features stems from the fact that you can get plugins for Cisco, Microsoft, etc. In general, Visio provides a plugin for sample diagrams, graphs, etc.

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Mark Bielz - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Delivery Lead at Arq group

The product efficiently visualizes various business processes, including building and networking architecture. It is quite intuitive, and there is a lot of training documentation available. We can import an Excel Spreadsheet with all the essential data, and Visio can build the diagram using it.

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ME
President at Estrada Technology Associates LLC

The thing I like most about Visio is the stencils. As the product has matured over time, it comes with more stencils and objects that you can just pick out of the menu and go with. 

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Victor Claveria - PeerSpot reviewer
Logistics Division Manager at 3PL

The solution is user-friendly.

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JM
Computing Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The fact that you could program in VBA is most valuable. 

It is easy to use out of the box. It requires little training, which is readily available. You can learn things easily.

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Mohamed El Wakeel - PeerSpot reviewer
Group IT Business Solutions Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Drawing flowcharts is the most valuable feature of Visio.

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Tarun Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I like that I can copy and paste icons and drag and drop items. It has a lot of great features.

It is very stable. It's reliable. 

The solution can scale.

It is easy to set up.

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Pramoad Pathirathna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Enterprise Systems at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The main reason I choose Visio is that it is easy to use. The user interface is familiar and straightforward. Additionally, it offers a variety of templates, such as those for Cisco solutions, which make it easy to create diagrams for specific use cases. For example, we use a Cisco Meraki switch and we can find the exact template for it, then we can easily drop in the components and connect the cables to create the diagram.

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DM
Business Process Manager at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the set of diagramming tools.

It is quite flexible and easy to use.

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VK
Assistant Manager in Strategic Consulting at Metlife

The features I find most valuable are the integration with the other Microsoft applications, specifically Excel.

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AF
Lead Enterprise Domain Architects at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Visio is a very easy tool in general, making it easy for anyone to understand.

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Anthony Uzoh - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Technology Planning and Human Resource at Agate Technology Solutions

The modeling features that aid my flowcharting, sequence diagrams, and project tracking are the most valuable.

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SE
SQL Server Developer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature of Visio is diagram creation. If you have a presentation, you can create your data model using Visio. The tool has Microsoft components you can find in Microsoft Power BI, particularly the drag-and-drop functionality and link creation between the two components.

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Naresh Rayakwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead architect at Tech Mahindra Limited

The most valuable feature is how easy it is to use. 

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VS
Senior Director, Digital Engg. & Enterprise Arch. at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I like that it's simple to use and a very intuitive solution. The tools that it provides out of the box are pretty good. The out of the box categorization of flow charts helps. Its ability to take it to PowerPoint is easy as well. 

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OS
Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is a standard and easy-to-use solution from Microsoft, and you benefit from the general functions of Microsoft solutions. It integrates easily with SharePoint, which is a useful tool from Microsoft.

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SK
Group DWH and BI Senior Manager at Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa

The solution is easy to understand with some hands-on experience.

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MM
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable aspect of the solution is the exterior interface. The exterior application interface and the keyboard shortcuts available help me to do some major work and diagrams.

Since Microsoft did some updates a while back, I've found the solution to be very stable.

Technical support seems to be pretty good.

The initial setup is pretty easy.

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AB
Data Center Design Architect at a tech company with 201-500 employees

There's a much better library of stencils than there used to be. But I still have to create many composite objects to illustrate a software-defined data center or software-defined networking. I like that once you create what you need, you can group that, at least within that drawing, and you have access to that new stencil object or that custom object throughout that drawing.

I do know that Microsoft has extended the ability of Visio to interact with other Microsoft applications. I know you can use Visio elements in spreadsheets and Excel. I know that doing a copy and paste from Visio into a PowerPoint slide is very easy and clean now. It used to be a nightmare.

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TH
Director of Mortgage Banking Projects at a writing and editing position with 1-10 employees

One of the features I like is the automation involved in creating a process. It's really improved over the years. At this point, when you have step one - let's say it's a rectangle with step one in it - and then you're ready for step two, you can just hover the cursor over one side, and then it will automatically add an arrow going to the next box and automatically add a new box. It saves a bit of time there. It's one less aggravation to deal with when you're creating things.

The solution hasn't changed much in 20 years. It's a very meat and potatoes type of product and isn't overly designed. It's very easy to find your way through the solution, as it's not too complicated.

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NR
Lead Process Improvement Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We are all familiar with it, and it is easy to use. There is a lot of flexibility, and you can create custom templates with standard shapes. 

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GA
Solution Architect at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The valuable feature is the simplicity of drawing shapes and connecting them. It's very easy to customize and then group the activities so the solution offers a lot of flexibility. It really provides value. 

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AT
System Analysis Chapter Area Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

What I like most about the solution is that It's quite easy to use. In our case we do not consider it in this exercise since we wish the components to be logical and not just to have the drawings in one diagram or another.

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MB
Principal Consultant at Lexington Consulting

One of the most valuable features is the online support from Microsoft. Whenever I'm stuck with a problem, I can contact customer support. They will almost certainly get back to me within a reasonable time frame. They're good with that.

It is easy to use online tutorials and training videos provided by Microsoft and elsewhere, such as on YouTube. So, if I want to create a new diagram, add some shapes, or increase the weight of a connection from one object to another in my graph, I can easily find out how to do that.

Another aspect that I enjoy is the seamless online integration. For example, there's the ability to download all sorts of extras like different shapes, stencils, objects, etc., for free directly from Microsoft into Visio. Also, I like that you can drag and drop online pictures straight from the Web into Visio.

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KP
VP of Products at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

The tools tab within Visio has been amazingly useful, and it is updated quite frequently. Along with how Visio handles components and everything else, I would call it an easy-to-use tool. Anyone with years of experience in IT who has just been introduced to Visio won't feel like they want to shy away from it because the entire tool itself is self-explanatory.

I have personally used Visio across three different organizations that I've been in, and I have been more happy using Visio than any of its competitors.

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DM
Business Process Manager at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The process modeling is a valuable feature for us.

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PF
VP of Networking and Infrastructure at NJA LLC

Just the fact that a majority of the industry uses it, and you've got third-party templates that were created. All my vendors have templates for their products and services. It's also easy to use Visio.

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AC
Founder at AC Lean

I find it really easy to use. 

You can customize the process very easy. 

You can also communicate with people ad they don't even need to have the tool. They can see the processes on the internet which makes it easy to collaborate with people that don't actually choose to use the tool. 

It's easy to use generally, due to the fact that it's really basic. 

It has also a lot of Planteria, I know how to paint in it, however, you can use different samples, depending on the structures that you want to draw. It has a lot of possiblities.

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Anthony Busulwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations Manager Uganda at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

What I like best about Visio is that it's flexible.

Sometimes, if I need to draw quickly, I use Microsoft PowerPoint, but if I need icons, which Visio has, I use Visio.

I also like that the solution gives me a much more powerful range of options.

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DJ
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Visio makes it easier than with other tools to do such tasks as changing things or coming up with one's own visual style for presentation purposes. Mostly, the solution is employed for presentations made to business people, with the aim of facilitating their understanding of the design one wishes to use. Due to its greater flexibility when it comes to how things are joined together with lines, it is possible to put things together that would not work in a physical environment. This reduced constraint is good, as it allows one to initially familiarize himself with his system and ask the appropriate questions for which he may not have answers at the moment. At the minimum, this allows a person to put something up for critique in the event that it is incorrect.

The automated tools exist for making the computer do the dumb stuff. It may be worth going out to the market to see the sort of things people are trying to obtain. The solution integrates well with other tools and one can bring Visio diagrams into Word. Once in Word, a person can open the diagram for editing purposes if need be and then close it again and keep it in Word. So, all the integration capabilities with the other Office products is great. I can't think of much that I wish to add to the solution.

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AC
Founder at AC Lean

It's a very agile product because I can map and model a process extremely quickly. It's user friendly and there are a lot of templates I can use that are really useful. I like very much that I can publish the different models I've created with my clients and they can view the entire process, it's really useful. It provides a lot of advantages because you can see the inefficiencies visually, and it's really easy to analyze and to detect different inefficiencies in order to improve the process.

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JO
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd
  • Network diagrams tools
  • Flow charts
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it_user233502 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Coord at a tech services company

I find the library of shapes very helpful. I do appreciate that shapes are tied to various templates because it makes it easier/quicker to complete a diagram when the type of diagram you choose automatically loads the shapes that are tied to it. I frequently load additional shapes into the program to keep my diagrams fresh and promote a certain type of individuality to my designs.

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BP
Power Electronics Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is stable.

The scalability is good. We can reuse it as a model. It can be modified.

The tool is user-friendly. 

We are able to bring out what we want in terms of our architectural or detailed block diagrams.

The installation is easy.

I'm now used to the user interface. I like it. 

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SM
Process engineer at Siemens Industry

The valuable feature about Visio is it has all the basic tools for creating processes. 

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JH
Process Improvement Consultant/Business Analyst at Sherpa Consulting

I like Visio because you basically do anything you want.

The templates are useful, for example, because we can implement a project using the BPMN template. It's very good that you have got that option.

This is a very straightforward product and I don't think that anything needs to be simplified.

It integrates with other products reasonably well.

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AH
Project Development at INECO

I love that interface a lot. I've been involved with design my whole life, and this solution is an excellent program in terms of assisting with design projects. You can work on quite large projects with Visio.

I've used the solution for so long, and I have so much experience with it, I'm quite comfortable using the technology.

The solution makes it very easy to make exciting pictures and designs. Everything is very intuitive and simple to figure out.

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EE
Business Process Management Specialist and Business Continuity Management Coordinator at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

The simplicity of the solution is great. It doesn't have a lot of menus, so it's easy to navigate. 

The fact that it's on-premises allows you to get fantastic speed. It's got a faster response rate, it doesn't lag, and it doesn't have any latency when you're working on it.

The solution has a very comprehensive set of icons. It has a BPMN location and a lot of other different locations you can use at the same time.

Microsoft offers great documentation of the product.

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KO
Business App Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I enjoy the fact that I can go into detail with Visio. In shared communications, I can inspect for any fault in my processes. That's what I enjoy the most.

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SE
HRIS Specialist at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ability to do my mappings is the most valuable feature in the solution. It is the reason I have and use the product.  

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RS
Deputy Manager, Quality Assurance at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Most of the time we're dealing with designation so that feature we find very easy and useful because we have a continuation for the required flow symbols. It also provides access for profile pics for the designation. Sometimes there are other options, such as timelines, that I also use but less often. 

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SH
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications

Visio makes it easy to communicate your ideas from several areas of your imagination across several domains. People like to imagine it and describe things in document form, and I think Visio could really help with that.

If you have any questions, it will take you through the concepts step-by-step, so you can also educate yourself.

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GM
IT/Business Architect at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The feature I like most about Visio is that it acts as a facilitator of communication, as it displays information that's easier to understand.

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CH
Facility director at a aerospace/defense firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The solution has a fairly intuitive interface. When it comes to process mapping, the best thing about it is that it's already configured for swim lanes and for drag and drop and easy manipulation of the objects and connection lines. It makes it a very easy-to-use solution. In comparison, if you're using PowerPoint, you have to manually size things and then adjust the font and it's very tedious trying to get everything connected. In contrast, Visio is very fluid, very interactive, and designed with features that reduce the manual work for basic flowcharts.

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BG
Portfolio Architect at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Visio has allowed us to create good diagrams for our technical employees to consume. The solution provides templates, is straightforward, and has tools for the easy creation of diagrams.

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EB
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The diagrams Visio creates are quite impressive in the sense that we can cooperate with more colleagues in one task and see the flow of the process.

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AK
Managing Director at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are that the user experience is simple, and it's customizable. You can customize it and connect it to data.

It has also many features that allow it to integrate Visio with SharePoint, which might be very useful in many applications.

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OK
Project Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The interface is the most valuable aspect of this solution. 

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it_user237957 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT System Engineer at a recruiting/HR firm with 501-1,000 employees

The feature that I like the most, as simple as it may seem, is the addition of the vendor's vectors and shapes. I'm able to utilize the actual brands of our network appliances as devices to have a more accurate picture of our actual network and the server room setup.

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SD
Mentor at Agricultural Paying Agency

It's been an extremely reliable solution for me for a very long time. It's quite mature.

If you are a knowledgeable individual, the initial setup isn't too difficult.

There are plenty of very good third-party tools.

The stability is fairly good.

The solution can scale to meet the needs of any project.

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VM
Digital Enterprise Architect at DXC

It is very easy for people to start using this tool, and we can import Visio templates that are already published by vendors such as Azure without any issue.

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it_user1024038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tally Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The application makes plotting and flowcharting very easy and very user-friendly. It is intuitive and doesn't take any time to make a complete and sophisticated flow chat from end to end. We are considering shifting completely from iGraphics to Visio Pro for office 365. I'm good in Visio, but I'm not an expert in iGraphics, so more comparison is necessary to define which solution is better.

The main feature of Visio and Autodesk that makes it attractive is that using Visio for just a week or two, people found that it's easier and more user-friendly in terms of flowcharting. The shapes library is much easier, the integration between Visio and other Microsoft Office tools is instantaneous. 

The concerns were that Visio did not have all the necessary features. In iGraphics, for example, you may add a command in the flow charts and add a note for a specific activity. When exporting it into a PDF, these notes get mentioned with the chart number so it's very easy to refer back to each note. It is a bit more efficient for reference without any extra effort. This was one of the features that they were missing in Visio.

iGraphics has a compulsory function which creates a complete reference and a complete library of all the processes related to my enterprise, my organization, in certain shapes or hierarchies. It's very handy and very easy to reference.

This is not as straightforward in Visio. Visio can compensate for this and have these processes in the same hierarchy. It is just related to collaboration. I can check the changes in the processes and models using the tracking feature.

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FB
Delivery Manager at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

Putting details into the process flow and being able to link other objects into the diagrams are very helpful features.

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JG
Solution Architect and a Cloud Architect at Jasmaf

The most valuable aspect of Visio is enabling comprehensive coverage of architectural elements.

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BB
Infrastructure Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature of this product is its versatility.

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MA
Managing Director at The Benchmark Company

The most valuable features are process mapping and identifying responsibilities.

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CE
Enterprise Architect Analyst at a government with 10,001+ employees

The ability to draw models quickly.

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BR
Systems Engineer at Perspecta

I like the fact that as you drag and move things around, everything keeps track of each of its connections. So you don't have to be bothered by mechanics of connecting things again in the right place. It just follows on. It's also a good diagramming tool.

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it_user602352 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Business Analyst / Solution Designer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would highlight BPMN 2.0 validation, as it eases the standardization of the Business Process Model within multi-disciplinary teams. Visio integrates seamlessly with the rest of the Office suite as any other Microsoft product, which is also worth mentioning.

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LT
SKA LOW AIW Lead Engineer at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

It is easy to use.

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RD
Integration Architect at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable features are ease of use and flexibility.

One of the things that I like is the automation from external data.

The user interface is fine.

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it_user710529 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Developer Relations Engineer at a tech company with 201-500 employees

Valuable features for me include the different chart options and the ease of building them up.

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EE
NOC Manager at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I like the solution's ease of use and its the integration with different templates from a variety of manufacturers.

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NE
Sr. IT Project Manager at a university with self employed

The interface of the solution is very good. It's easy to navigate.

We've found that the technical support has been pretty helpful overall.

The project management and the business process are both very good.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

The stability of the solution is very good.

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it_user708486 - PeerSpot reviewer
Multimedia Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It is a good diagramming application. I am an AV systems design engineer. I use it primarily to create functional drawings. I also use it for the basic floor plan and wall elevation drawings.

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OR
Management Consulting Director at a consultancy with 201-500 employees

The product has a good interface and tool configuration which comes with the Microsoft Office package. Another advantage is that you don't need to be an expert to use the tool. It's actually very easy and doesn't require a technical background so you can make any business process in a very easy way. Once you finish the layout business process, it can be sent to a client and visualized in a webpage without the need to download any other application. With other softwares, like ArchiMate, you need to download the application in order to view it. As a consultant when you finish the process, you need to send it in PDF format or something similar and your counterpart can view the file without any further configuration or further downloads.

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MB
Partenaire, CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I like all the features. I go online, and everything pops there. It is in the cloud, and everything is there. Even if there is a crash, everything is still there. I don't lose anything. That's what is the most valuable and likable. 

It is really a professional solution for designing. The designs look really nice in the PDF. 

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MJ
Management Analysis and Control Advisor at VdM

Drawing BPMN diagrams.

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JI
Infrastructure Architect at a government with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is that it is integrated with other tools in the Microsoft Office suite, as well as at the backend with products like SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

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MH
Senior Associate Consultant at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

What I like the most is the simplicity and ease of usage.

The reason I like it is that we, as consultants, use PowerPoint a lot, and it's easy to drag it and put in a slide of PowerPoint since it's a Microsoft product.

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it_user238035 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Consultant at a financial services firm

The templates are the most valuable feature as there is a wide variety of the commonly used graphics.

When you open a diagram, you have a number of templates such as Engineering, Network, Software, Maps, etc. that quickly organize the images you can use in Visio.

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WH
Change Management Consultant at a analyst firm with self employed

Every aspect of it is highly valuable.

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MA
Systems Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees

It is stable. I have never experienced any issues.

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it_user850341 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Front End Applications at Henry Schein animal health

The diagramming and swimlane features allow for separating business functions. Also, the web page architecture helps.

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NS
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Visio is easy to use.

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