Visio Overview
What is Visio?
Microsoft Visio is a cloud-based flowchart and diagram creation tool, designed to aid collaboration and connect real-time data with business workflows. The platform enables communication of complex information through data-linked diagrams, flowcharts, org charts, floor plans, and more. Visio offers a range of pre-built templates that can be modified and customized depending on business needs. Visio can be used for data visualization, brainstorming, UML diagram creation, org chart creation, process mapping, IT network mapping, and more. The Visio stencil functionality allows users to create commonly used shape stencils to speed up the creation of drawings and professional diagrams.
The Visio platform allows users to collaborate on diagrams and workflows in order to gather insights from all team members and stakeholders. Changes can be made by individuals and synchronized in real time, in-app commenting can be enabled in order to provide feedback, and diagrams can be shared amongst teams within the cloud using links or downloads. Flowcharts and diagrams can be connected to real-time data sources in order to create visualizations, and diagrams can be embedded into Power BI dashboards using Visio Visual.
In order to aid with brainstorming and project planning, Visio offers ready-to-use templates based around brainstorming techniques such as fishbone diagrams and SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analyses.
Visio Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
Visio Online Plan 1: $5/user/month (billed annually) or $6/user/month (billed monthly).
Visio Online Plan 2: $15/user/month (billed annually) or $18/user/month (billed monthly).
Visio Features
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Visio Reviews
Visio Reviews
The tool for visual mathematicians
I love it for the purpose it was intended for. I don't think I could find anything better. Most of the time I have nothing but good things to say about this product. Just don't let yourself get in a spot where you need to write your own code to generate your charts automatically because the API and help for it would require another degree just for this product.
Process Development Tool with layers
Visio has helped me take conversations and brainstorming sessions and demonstrate how they would actually work. So often there is a good intention on trying something new, but it is important to get everyone on the same page. This tool has helped do that.
I have also extensively used Visio as a training tool. I will link the diagrams to other portals and tools that we use, so that the workflow document is something of a link aggregator for all the steps involved. This has made the hand-off from training to implementation much easier.
Great tool but the price is hard to justify
A picture is worth a thousand words. Adding a Visio drawing to my notes made them much more descriptive and saved me a lot of time.
Visio – professional in diagram drawing
Visio is one of the tools which is used by most of the people for drawing diagrams and charts. Because of the easiness in drawing and and professional look of the final product this application is more famous in the industry more specifically in IT industry.
Visio for workflows
Best tool in business for us. Easy to drag drop and shift. And create visual workflows.
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The tool for visual mathematicians
Pros
It can connect to a wide range of data sources to present data in your charts. It has a wide range of abilities through the various add-ons and tools. The range of standard drawing objects is huge and you can create your own if you know what you are doing.
Cons
It sucks for trying to program against it. Every drawing object has its own properties, methods and behaviors. It is a real nightmare if you need to integrate it into an automation system. The only one I have found that might be worse is Outlook and that would depend on what you were doing.

Process Development Tool with layers
Visio has helped me take conversations and brainstorming sessions and demonstrate how they would actually work. So often there is a good intention on trying something new, but it is important to get everyone on the same page. This tool has helped do that.
I have also extensively used Visio as a training tool. I will link the diagrams to other portals and tools that we use, so that the workflow document is something of a link aggregator for all the steps involved. This has made the hand-off from training to implementation much easier.
Pros
I like that I can use Visio to easily demonstrate workflows and process improvement ideas. There is a range of understanding for software like Visio. I do not use it to automate at my place of work, but I use it extensively for visual learners when implementing or discussing new processes, procedures, and ideas. Often I have co-workers take these designs and display them for their team as a physical reminder, others are more intuitive and I work with them to develop interactive workflows (with links, actions, etc.)
Cons
There are some elements to how you design that are not intuitive. I usually spend about 15 minutes with users who download the software to demonstrate how they can make their flows and diagrams. The organization chart is particularly more cumbersome than advertised, but even so, I have users who use it for this purpose. Online resources are sparse as well, and I often am troubleshooting when trying new methods.
Great tool but the price is hard to justify
A picture is worth a thousand words. Adding a Visio drawing to my notes made them much more descriptive and saved me a lot of time.
Pros
This is a very easy and flexible tool to share concepts with customers and keep records of configurations. I have even used it to design furniture that I built in my garage when I didn't have a copy of AutoCAD on my PC. I used to create my own icons and import them to use for all kinds of projects.
Cons
Price. I don't understand why it isn't part of Office 365. It has always been an essential tool for me but I only use it once a month, so it's hard to justify the price. I have lots of old Visio drawings on my computer that I can't access anymore. There are free cloud-based alternatives but they are not as flexible and uploading old drawings often doesn't work.

Visio – professional in diagram drawing
Visio is one of the tools which is used by most of the people for drawing diagrams and charts. Because of the easiness in drawing and and professional look of the final product this application is more famous in the industry more specifically in IT industry.
Pros
Visio has become one of the major applications which is used in drawing diagrams in the industry. Visio has become almost an official tool in diagraming as it is vastly used In most of the companies in creating diagrams related to their business plans and projects. There are various types of diagrams provided through the application . So the users can draw any type of a diagram according to their requirement from the given diagram types. Because of the large number of diagram types provide by the application users’ does not need to search different software to draw different diagrams which saves both the time and money of the user. Visio offers different editions like Standard, professional and pro with particularly improved functions per each edition. Also Visio created diagrams can be imported in another similar diagram drawing software and do further modifications. Even the diagrams drawn by some selected software can be opened through Visio and edit them. Visio offers both desktop and online versions for the users which helps the users to use the product whenever they want wheatear they are connected to internet or not.
Cons
Visio is not a platform independent software. So far Visio is only available for windows operating system. It does not supports mac os or Linux or any other operating system. Which has limited the usage of the application only for the users using windows. Though there are different editions users have to pay for each edition with more facilities. And the price need to be payed seems to be unfair considering the same category applications. Though there is a desktop version in Visio it is not constantly updated. Updates are available for the desktop version within few years time period. So it is bit difficult to work with the desktop version.
Visio for workflows
Best tool in business for us. Easy to drag drop and shift. And create visual workflows.
Pros
Its so complete and full features and flexible to use. Everyone gets it when showing the workflows. And you can setup any type of flow you need.
Cons
Its mostly fixed on one machine, so people cannot interact with it. Sometimes when shifting items other block shift with it, something you do not always want.
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Visio Pricing
Visio Pricing
Visio Online Plan 1: $5/user/month (billed annually) or $6/user/month (billed monthly).
Visio Online Plan 2: $15/user/month (billed annually) or $18/user/month (billed monthly).
Visio Online Plan 1: $5/user/month (billed annually) or $6/user/month (billed monthly).
Visio Online Plan 2: $15/user/month (billed annually) or $18/user/month (billed monthly).
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Visio Features
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Additional information for Visio
Additional information for Visio
Key features of Visio
- Ability to import DWG files into Visio
- AutoConnect functionality
- Brainstorming diagrams
- Business process diagrams
- Context-sensitive Help and links to task-specific templates
- Contextual right-click menus
- Easy diagram sharing through a web browser
- Easy shape customization
- Easy-to-apply themes to create modern diagrams quickly
- Link Diagram shapes to data
- No-code dashboards
- Shape effect options—shadow, bevel, glow, and others
Benefits
• Create org charts, flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, engineering designs, and more using Visio’s drag and drop editor.
• Collaborate on diagrams and flows using tools such as in-app commenting, annotations, and real-time sharing via web links, attachments, or PDF.
• Use pre-built templates based on specific use-cases in order to quickly build and customize workflows or visualizations.
• Integrate Visio with Power BI and embed flowcharts or diagrams into Power BI dashboards in order to provide more data insights.
• Connect Visio with real-time data sources and diagrams will automatically update when data is changed at the source.
Visio FAQs
Visio FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Visio.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Visio offer?
Visio offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$5,00/month
Pricing model: One Time License, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Visio Online Plan 1: $5/user/month (billed annually) or $6/user/month (billed monthly). Visio Online Plan 2: $15/user/month (billed annually) or $18/user/month (billed monthly).
Q. What are the main features of Visio?
Visio offers the following features:
- Ability to import DWG files into Visio
- AutoConnect functionality
- Brainstorming diagrams
- Business process diagrams
- Context-sensitive Help and links to task-specific templates
- Contextual right-click menus
- Easy diagram sharing through a web browser
- Easy shape customization
- Easy-to-apply themes to create modern diagrams quickly
- Link Diagram shapes to data
- No-code dashboards
- Shape effect options—shadow, bevel, glow, and others
Q. Who are the typical users of Visio?
Visio has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Visio support?
Visio supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish
Q. What type of pricing plans does Visio offer?
Visio has the following pricing plans:
One Time License, Subscription
Q. Does Visio support mobile devices?
Visio supports the following devices:
iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Visio integrate with?
Visio integrates with the following applications:
AxisTV, Digital Enterprise Suite, Lucidchart, Microsoft OneDrive, The VIP Test Modeller, netTerrain Logical
Q. What level of support does Visio offer?
Visio offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Online Support, FAQs, Phone Support
I love it for the purpose it was intended for. I don't think I could find anything better. Most of the time I have nothing but good things to say about this product. Just don't let yourself get in a spot where you need to write your own code to generate your charts automatically because the API and help for it would require another degree just for this product.