2018-08-09T07:01:00Z

What is your primary use case for Visio?

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MB
Real User
Top 20
2023-11-02T14:38:00Z
Nov 2, 2023

We use the product for business modeling and workflow design.

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Enas Selim - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-11-02T08:12:00Z
Nov 2, 2023

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.

Mark Bielz - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-11-01T06:48:00Z
Nov 1, 2023

We use the application for process mapping through architecture. It helps visualize the activities and interactions between 3,000 different systems on the network.

AA
Real User
Top 20
2023-10-30T03:55:00Z
Oct 30, 2023

I use Visio for high-level network design, and I use it for home planning since it is easy to use.

AF
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-07-24T11:55:00Z
Jul 24, 2023

Visio is used as a diagramming software for ITM.

Tarun Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-04-06T13:41:57Z
Apr 6, 2023

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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DE
Real User
Top 20
2023-03-28T17:42:44Z
Mar 28, 2023

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.

SunilAgarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-03-10T10:48:34Z
Mar 10, 2023

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.

Csaba Molnar - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-02-16T10:15:00Z
Feb 16, 2023

We use the tool for creating system plans and some hardware equipment structure.

Anthony Busulwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-01-18T11:09:50Z
Jan 18, 2023

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.

SE
Real User
Top 20
2023-01-12T20:25:06Z
Jan 12, 2023

The company uses Visio for a maintenance project occasionally. I use Visio for infrastructure architecture and create data models on it.

MB
Consultant
Top 5
2022-11-03T20:32:14Z
Nov 3, 2022

We use Visio for simple business process diagrams to illustrate current processes and compare/contrast them with proposed improvements.

Greg Swain - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
2022-03-18T21:43:00Z
Mar 18, 2022

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.

Ricardo Camacho - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-02-02T15:04:00Z
Feb 2, 2022

I use Visio to go to meetings on Zoom.

BP
Real User
2021-12-31T11:47:00Z
Dec 31, 2021

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.

Naresh Rayakwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-11-19T20:00:00Z
Nov 19, 2021

My primary use case is for designing the architecture diagram and the network diagram.

BB
Real User
2021-11-07T09:12:00Z
Nov 7, 2021

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.

SM
Real User
2021-10-29T09:36:14Z
Oct 29, 2021

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.

SK
Real User
2021-09-20T16:03:14Z
Sep 20, 2021

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.

EE
Real User
2021-08-30T11:25:19Z
Aug 30, 2021

We do not use the latest version. I am a network engineer and we use the solution for drawing network diagrams.

VS
Real User
2021-07-21T18:59:22Z
Jul 21, 2021

We are end users of this solution. I'm a senior director of the company and a digital engineer.

KD
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2021-07-05T10:42:22Z
Jul 5, 2021

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.

GA
MSP
2021-07-01T18:20:49Z
Jul 1, 2021

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.

LT
Real User
2021-05-31T15:09:46Z
May 31, 2021

We use Visio for describing processes, port authorities, requests, exchange of documents, and authorizations. The main use is for business processes and descriptions.

DM
Real User
2021-05-23T23:39:14Z
May 23, 2021

We primarily use the solution for tasks such as work charts, network diagrams, and process flows.

XR
Real User
2021-04-08T22:34:56Z
Apr 8, 2021

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.

NR
Real User
2021-04-07T21:01:05Z
Apr 7, 2021

We use Visio extensively for creating architecture, network and workflow diagrams. Also used for UML Class diagrams and various types of flow charts

OR
Real User
2021-04-01T10:08:17Z
Apr 1, 2021

I'm a business management consultant.

MM
Real User
2021-03-09T17:24:38Z
Mar 9, 2021

I'm an architect; I primarily use Visio for drawing diagrams.

AB
Reseller
2021-02-23T21:56:43Z
Feb 23, 2021

I build either diagrams for solutions or use Visio to create illustrations for slide decks and white papers.

AC
Real User
2021-02-22T17:53:22Z
Feb 22, 2021

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.

reviewer1498125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2021-02-17T04:36:05Z
Feb 17, 2021

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.

KS
Real User
2021-02-03T20:37:29Z
Feb 3, 2021

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.

TH
Real User
2021-01-26T15:07:24Z
Jan 26, 2021

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.

PF
Real User
2021-01-23T08:10:43Z
Jan 23, 2021

I use Visio for diagramming configurations.

SH
Real User
Top 10
2021-01-14T13:20:57Z
Jan 14, 2021

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.

MA
Real User
2021-01-07T18:29:57Z
Jan 7, 2021

I mostly use it for network diagrams. It is a standard solution for creating this kind of stuff.

VM
Real User
2020-12-31T21:07:00Z
Dec 31, 2020

I use it to create architecture diagrams.

MB
Consultant
Top 5
2020-12-10T11:46:00Z
Dec 10, 2020

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.

JH
Consultant
2020-12-08T19:50:13Z
Dec 8, 2020

I am working as a business analyst and I used Visio for process mapping.

MB
Real User
2020-11-18T21:42:26Z
Nov 18, 2020

I use it to design business models, cyber defense portals, and pictures. We are using the latest version of Visio.

OK
Real User
2020-11-04T10:53:00Z
Nov 4, 2020

We use Visio for process diagram.

NR
Real User
2020-11-04T02:21:23Z
Nov 4, 2020

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.

RD
Real User
2020-10-29T19:06:00Z
Oct 29, 2020

The primary use case is modeling architecture requirements.

AH
Real User
2020-10-07T07:04:38Z
Oct 7, 2020

I primarily use the solution to make new core designs. I connect the designs to the projects I'm involved with.

EE
Real User
2020-09-27T04:10:12Z
Sep 27, 2020

We primarily use the solution for business process design.

SE
Real User
2020-09-27T04:09:59Z
Sep 27, 2020

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.

RS
Real User
2020-09-13T07:02:29Z
Sep 13, 2020

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.

DM
Real User
2020-09-08T09:10:03Z
Sep 8, 2020

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.

MA
Real User
2020-08-04T07:26:13Z
Aug 4, 2020

The primary use case of this solution is for process mapping, and to streamline simulations.

BR
Real User
2020-07-13T06:55:38Z
Jul 13, 2020

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.

PL
Real User
2019-11-18T07:22:00Z
Nov 18, 2019

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.

AL
Consultant
Top 5
2019-09-05T06:26:00Z
Sep 5, 2019

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.

KO
Real User
2019-06-04T07:43:00Z
Jun 4, 2019

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.

it_user1024038 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2019-05-29T10:40:00Z
May 29, 2019

We primarily use Visio as a flow chart software solution.

FB
Real User
2019-05-22T07:18:00Z
May 22, 2019

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.

VK
Real User
2019-05-13T08:56:00Z
May 13, 2019

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.

MJ
Real User
2019-02-19T16:11:00Z
Feb 19, 2019

Process modeling.

CE
Real User
2018-08-09T07:01:00Z
Aug 9, 2018

Documenting the enterprise architecture.

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