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In Searching of Alternative to MS Visio for Mac and PC
with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Undoubtedly MS Visio is a powerful and multifunctional tool, but however at times occur the instances, when it turns unable of meeting certain users' requirements. At this cases you may need to use an alternative program software, preferably it will be simple, convenient, and at the same time powerful and professional. In searching the alternative to MS Visio for MAC and PC we recommend you to pay attention for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software, which was developed to satisfy all your drawing needs and requirements. It is a fully-functioned alternative product to MS Visio for both platforms. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software has many advantages, the main among them are the cross-platform compatibility, a reasonable price, widespread ConceptDraw Solution Park with huge variety of different solutions that offer numerous libraries of specialized vector objects, useful examples, samples, and quick-start templates, extensive import / export capabilities, built-in script language, MS Visio support and certainly free technical support.

Is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM an Alternative to Microsoft Visio?

Visio for Mac and Windows - ConceptDraw as an alternative to MS Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM delivers full-functioned alternative to MS Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM supports import of Visio files. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM supports flowcharting, swimlane, orgchart, project chart, mind map, decision tree, cause and effect, charts and graphs, and many other diagram types.
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How to Open MS Visio® 2013-2019 Files on a Mac®

Powerful business graphics and diagramming tools is the norm and not the exception for today’s businesses. For years the de facto standard file format for business has been Microsoft Visio™. Many people involved in visual communication need software tools that will read and write using the Visio file format. With the introduction of Visio 2013, Microsoft has changed the native file format used in earlier versions of Microsoft Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM v12 file import and export works round-trip with the new Visio VSDX file format.

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM The best Business Drawing Software

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is new software for business and technical drawing. Powerful business drawing tools, extensive libraries with pre-drawn shapes, free samples of business drawings, technical drawings and flowcharts, support of many graphic formats enable users to visually develop their business drawings charts and diagrams in any combination of drawings, diagrams and flow charts.

Flowchart Process Example

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a professional software for creating great looking flowcharts. The samples included in this set of software allows users to draw any type of flowchart.

Fault Tree Diagram

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software offers the Fault Tree Analysis Diagrams Solution from the Industrial Engineering Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park for quick and easy creating the Fault Tree Diagram of any degree of detailing.

Cisco LAN. Cisco icons, shapes, stencils and symbols

The ConceptDraw vector stencils library Cisco LAN contains symbols for drawing the computer local area network diagrams.

Basic Workflow Examples

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with the Workflow Diagrams solution delivers a complete set of samples and templates. This set contains basic workflow examples you may use to start drawing your own workflow or to get closer with workflow idea.

Diagramming software for Amazon Web Service diagrams, charts and schemes

Professional software: visualize general system architecture, AWS diagrams are part of architecturing tools provided with ConceptDraw Solution Park.

Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Actions

Mind Maps are an advanced technique used to solve a wide range of professional tasks, personal growth tasks, business tasks, household tasks that occur in everyday life. When you need to make a difficult decision in terms of lack of information, to prepare a report, design a presentation in original way, to organize a brainstorming session, to develop plan for the next week / month / year, to make notes during the lecture, in all these cases the mind mapping technique will be effective. The essence of the method consists in structuring the information, in visualization of objects and concepts, and also in setting the associative relationships. This method is popular in teaching and when explaining new information, and lets represent it in a concise and easily perceived form. Mind Maps can be also effectively used to represent different computer knowledge and helpful information about the use of different applications. ConceptDraw MINDMAP is powerful software for designing different Mind Maps, including the Mind Map demonstrating the keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions that are utilized in ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

Chart Maker for Presentations

Easy charting software comes with beautiful chart templates and examples. This makes it easy to create professional charts without prior experience.

Presentations in Educational Process

Using mind mapping in education is very popular way to make your lecture materials more structural and clear both for you and for students. At remote learning session your students also can make notes or type questions to the current slides without interrupting slide show.

Graphics Software for Business

If you want to use effective methods for your business, you may need a tool which may let you represent your ideas and goals in graphic way. Software with different flowchart templates for each type of business will be your lifesaver. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM with its business samples, libraries and design elements is a point to start.

How to Prepare for a Presentation

Preparing for presentations easy with ConceptDraw MINDMAP.

Diagramming Software for Business Process

Create professional business process diagram with ConceptDraw.

Active Directory Domain Services

Active Directory Diagrams visualize the detailed structures of the Microsoft Windows networks, Active Directory Domain topology, the Active Directory Site topology, the Organizational Units (OU), and the Exchange Server Organization.

Business Process Reengineering. Business Process Example

This sample shows the Business Process Reengineering Diagram, displays the Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) directed at the permanent improvement of the processes. This sample can be used in business process management, quality management, project management and program management.

Diagramming Software for Design UML Interaction Overview Diagrams

UML Interaction Overview Diagram schematically shows a control flow with nodes and a sequence of activities that can contain interaction or sequence diagrams.

Cisco Media. Cisco icons, shapes, stencils and symbols

The ConceptDraw vector stencils library Cisco Media contains symbols for drawing the computer network diagrams.

Design Element: Crows Foot for Entity Relationship Diagram - ERD

Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) is ideal tool that helps execute the detalization of data warehouse for a given designed system, lets to document the system's entities, attributes (objects' properties), and their interactions each other (relationships). Creation of an ERD requires the choice of specific set of notations, which the best suits for your database design. Two notations - Chen’s and Crow's Foot are applied for ERDs design. Chen's notation was developed first and has linguistic approach, the boxes represent the entities and are considered as nouns, relationships between them are shown as diamonds in a verb form. Over time Chen’s style was adapted into the popular standard - Crow’s Foot notation, where entities are shown as boxes and relationships - as labeled lines. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software supplied with Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) solution offers samples and templates of ER diagrams, and also ready-to-use vector design elements - ERD Crow′s Foot and Chen's notation icons for easy designing your own ER diagrams for depicting databases.