Work visually. Diagramming made simple.
Simplify and communicate complex information with data-linked diagrams that you can create in just a few clicks
Visio makes diagramming simple. Whether you want to quickly capture a flowchart that you brainstormed on a whiteboard, map an IT network, build an organizational chart, document a business process, or draw a floor plan, Visio helps you work visually.
Create professional diagrams
Visio makes it easy and intuitive to create flowcharts, diagrams, org charts, floor plans, engineering designs and more using modern shapes and templates with the familiar Office experience.
Work better together
Work together on Visio flowcharts to include insights from all stakeholders. And with Office 365, multiple team members can work on diagrams at the same time.
Gain real world insights
Connect your flowcharts and diagrams to real-time data. Applied shape formatting automatically updates your flowcharts to reflect changes in the underlying data, either in Visio or through Office 365.
Visio Online
Visio Online helps you work together on diagrams from a web browser, from almost anywhere. Draw a flowchart, map an IT network, build an organizational chart, or document a business process.
Advanced diagramming made simple
Create flowcharts, network diagrams, org charts, floor plans, engineering designs, and more using out-of-the-box shapes and templates. Increase productivity with the familiar Office experience and make advanced diagramming easier than ever.
Create anything visually
Easily translate your work into professional diagrams that meet industry standards with the help of ready-made templates and 250,000 shapes in the Visio ecosystem.
Get started easily
Perform common flowcharting activities with ease, thanks to the familiar Office experience. Begin sketching out ideas using a pen or finger, or get tips from the pre-crafted Starter Diagrams.
Collaborate easily on diagrams
Collaborate the way you want. Work together on the same diagram at the same time, chat via Skype for Business, or quickly annotate using a pen or finger.
Business process for everyone
Collaborate easily on process design and use out-of-the-box templates that conform to industry standards (BPM, EPC, Six Sigma, and more). Share your process models in a browser across the organization and benefit from increased visibility and compliance.
Define processes efficiently
Design processes with built-in templates and the standard notation of your choice, whether it's BPMN 2.0 or EPC. Preconfigured validation rules check your models against best practices to increase model accuracy.
Collaborate on process models
Bring teamwork to process optimization with familiar co-authoring and collaboration tools. Chat with stakeholders via Skype for Business within the context of process models. Easily add comments, work together on the model, or annotate using a pen or finger.
Increase process visibility and compliance
Surface information like cost or risk level directly on a process map, or link a policy diagram to a process step. Share data-linked process diagrams across your organization to increase transparency and compliance, and keep everyone in sync with process KPIs.
Easily communicate technical processes and plans
Create network diagrams and flowcharts that depict program logic using ready-made templates and shapes. Communicate visually with data-linked diagrams to gain alignment quickly and stay on top of operational insights.
Document network infrastructure quickly
Simplify the documentation of network infrastructure with ready-made shapes within Visio or from the content ecosystem. Keep all technical details in one place by adding metadata like IP address or certificate number to shapes.
Communicate program logic using flowcharts
Use flowcharts to easily document your program logic. Simplify complex app development plans and processes with built-in templates that align to industry standards, including UML 2.5. Share one version of the truth and benefit from increased knowledge retention.
Stay on top of operational insights
Quickly bring your diagrams to life with data linking. Your diagrams will always be up to date and easy to share across the organization in a browser or iPad app. Keep everyone in sync with performance and progress visualized on top of technical processes and plans.
IT professionals
Document network infrastructure.
Track performance of servers, system centers or databases.
Application developers
Develop application architecture and workflows.
Share work with stakeholders for contribution and alignment.
Admins and support center professionals
Create flowcharts that communicate best practices and processes for service requests.
Share the status of support cases with end users.
CTOs
Review the blueprint of future technology architecture.
Keep track of IT performance metrics.
Increase process collaboration and compliance
Define processes efficiently using out-of-the-box templates that conform to industry standards, including Business Process Modeling (BPM) and Event-driven Process Chain (EPC). Work together across the modeling lifecycle by using familiar collaboration tools, and benefit from increased visibility, alignment, and compliance.
Design processes with built-in templates and the standard notation of your choice, whether it's BPMN 2.0 or EPC. Preconfigured validation rules check your process models against best practices and allow you to increase model accuracy with ease. Use a premade Excel template or spreadsheet to organize process map data.
Surface information like cost or risk directly on a process map, or link a policy diagram to a process step. Share data-linked process diagrams across your organization to increase transparency and compliance, and keep everyone in sync with process KPIs.
Consultants / process analysts
Define and streamline business processes with standard notations, and work with IT specialists to implement the processes.
Track KPIs to continuously improve processes.
Compliance / auditing professionals
Document business processes to provide proof of compliance and surface potential risks in a model.
Publish and provide easy navigation of process maps as part of a knowledge management repository.
Project managers
Design processes to better manage projects and teams.
Provide visual guidance throughout project execution for better alignment and compliance.
Executives
Drive change management and business transformation.
Align people and processes
Visualize organizational structure and people management processes by using the built-in cross-functional flowchart template and Org Chart wizard. Share one version of the truth to increase transparency and enhance your people-oriented culture.
Visualize organizational structure quickly
Automatically create org charts from data using a simple wizard in Visio. Make your charts look professional and inviting with a full set of effects and themes.
Onboard new hires with ease
Help new hires get up to speed faster with visual guidance on processes and best practices.
Increase organizational transparency and performance
Quickly bring your diagrams to life with data linking. Your diagrams will always be up to date and easy to share across the organization in a browser or iPad app. Keep everyone in sync with performance and progress visualized on top of organizational structures and processes.
HR professionals
Visualize organizational structure from Active Directory.
Track HR data like traning, pay and vacation days across the organization.
Share onboarding and other processes, and provide easy navigation for benefits and other HR information.
M&A professionals
Adjust organizational structures visually.
Streamline change management processes.
LoB managers
Track productivity of individuals and teams visually.
Resource managers
Map out responsibilities and view capacity data in one glance.
Real-world operational insights
Communicate operational insights effectively by surfacing live data on top of real-world processes and plans. Easily share one version of the truth, helping everyone stay aligned.
Bring diagrams to life with data linking
Quickly overlay data on top of an IT network, manufacturing plant, or complex process, to gain operational insights in the most meaningful way. As your underlying data refreshes, your diagrams and data visualizations update automatically.
Customize visualizations easily
Surface data patterns the way you want. Choose from default data graphics for icons, color, and text, or easily create your own visualization by configuring Visio smart shapes.
Communicate one version of the truth
Easily share data-linked diagrams with anyone across your organization in a browser. Keep everyone in sync with operational insights visualized on top of real-world processes and plans.
Simplify layout and design processes
Bring simplicity to real-world designs of floor plans, engineering architectures, and manufacturing processes by using ready-made shapes and templates. Work together easily on imported AutoCAD drawings, and use data-linked diagrams to stay on top of operational insights.
Design floor plans, electrical plans, or manufacturing processes easily
Increase efficiency and stay compliant with ready-made shapes and built-in templates that align to industry standards like Six Sigma and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Build floor plans, P&ID layouts, electrical plans, or lean manufacturing processes with visually appealing design and real-world accuracy.
Collaborate on CAD-based drawings
Work together on imported AutoCAD designs using familiar collaboration tools like Skype for Business, co-authoring, comments, or hand-drawn annotation. Reduce layers, highlight key architectural information, or add smart shapes. Share enriched design in high fidelity with anyone through a browser or iPad app.
Use quick data linking to surface KPIs for resource use, quality control, and more, on top of layouts, engineering designs, or manufacturing processes. Identify inefficiencies easily, and keep the entire organization in sync with operational insights visualized on top of real-world processes and designs.
Industrial / mechanical engineers
Sketch out engineering plans - including electrical mapping, P&ID layouts, control system design, and more.
Share the drawings with clients or other stakeholders on-the-go.
Quality management specialists
Develop lean processes with industry-standard methodologies like Six Sigma or TQM.
Conduct quality management with workflow integration.
Plant managers
Provide visual manuals for the field to implement protocols and increase compliance and workplace safety.
Develop scenario-based disaster management.
Track production output visually.
Facility management specialist
Experiment and change workspace layout to optimize collaboration and reduce facility costs.
Manage space and visualize data on the usage or performance of facilities in one glance.
Architects
Design, update, and publish floor plans, security exit plans, facilities layouts, and more.
Simplify teamwork with internal or external partners / customers.
Operations managers
View and interact with CAD-based diagrams for buildings, office spaces, electrical, server rooms, cabling, and more - in the office or in the field.
Oversee the performance of customer service facilities like call centers.
Visually track supply chain activities.