Transform the way you use and visualize data so you can bring your best ideas to life. With dozens of ready-to-use templates and thousands of customizable shapes, Visio makes it easy—and fun—to create powerful visuals.
Visio Professional 2021 lets you enjoy all the features of Visio Standard, plus additional templates, collaboration features, data connectivity capabilities, and standards support to build and validate diagrams that support industry standards.
Encourage greater diagramming collaboration with co-editing, shape-specific comments, and in-app presence through Skype for Business.* Easily share diagrams from directly within Visio for input from critical stakeholders.
Features include:
Versatile Templates and Powerful Shapes
Choose from dozens of templates, including built-in wireframes, and thousands of customizable shapes to transform numbers, ideas, and other data points into coherent and impactful stories.
In-App Commenting
Associate comments with specific shapes for clearer stakeholder feedback.
Data-Driven Diagramming
Automatically generate org charts from data sources like Excel, Exchange, or Azure Active Directory.
Flexible Editing
Change shapes in existing diagrams without losing your layout and shape connections, making it simple to adjust the look of our diagram without losing the work you’ve already done.
AutoCAD Support
Ability to import DWG files, including enhanced file format support.
Visio Professsional 2021 inlcudes the following not found in Visio Standard 2021:
- Intelligent Diagramming: Validate your structured diagrams against pre-defined rules and fix the issues identified
- Templates & Shapes:
- Visualize your systems and software using a rich repository of IT content including Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) and UML Diagrams
- Represent business processes graphically with a rich set of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) content
- Quickly create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes of your websites with website wireframes
- Bring your architecture designs to life with a rich library of floor plan templates and samples
- Create accurate, detailed business diagrams with templates for IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) diagrams, PivotDiagrams, Six Sigma, and value stream maps
- Model the behavior of systems and functions of a process with Specification and Description Language (SDL) and Integration Definition for Process Modeling (IDEF0)
- Create detailed engineering diagrams with templates for basic electrical and Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID)
- Develop clear and professional design plans with templates for HVAC plans and plant layout
- Simplify your system design process with detailed network, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and rack diagrams
- Design a SharePoint workflow in Visio or import a workflow from SharePoint Designer for Visio to generate a diagram
- Collaboration & Sharing: See where co-authors are working in the canvas with a simple presence indicator for files saved in the cloud
- Connecting Diagrams to Data:
- Link diagram shapes to data from multiple sources, including Excel, SharePoint lists, and SQL Server
- Refresh data automatically, either on a defined schedule or manually
- Apply a rich set of data graphics, icons, and colors to visualize data
- Standards Support:
- Get support for various process standards, including BPMN 2.0, IEEE, and UML 2.5
- Validate diagrams using built-in and extendable business rules
