Edraw is a Visio like flowcharting, organizational charting, network diagramming software. It is a rapid and powerful diagramming software which creates business charts and business forms with minimum time loss. Support flowcharts, organizational charts, business charts, hr diagrams, work flow, maps, project management and network diagrams. It's only 25M.

Visio Professional

Visio® is used to create professional looking diagrams. Its technical drawing tools handle the diagramming needs of engineers-simple to complex, rough to precise, general to specialized. Visio helps you define and visualize ideas, information, and systems.

Visio 2003 enables easy assembly of diagrams through dragging predefined Microsoft SmartShapes® symbols coupled with powerful search capabilities to locate the right shape, whether it is on a computer or the Web. The Visio 2003 Fact Sheet gives additional information about its features.

Import Visio XML file to Edraw Easily

Since Edraw Max V4.2 version, all Edraw products can import the Visio XML files.

5 Reasons to Choose Edraw Instead of Visio

Edraw Max is the friendly and economical alternative to Visio. Here are five reasons why you should choose Edraw Max:

1. Edraw Max is better for average business users
Although Visio is a powerful product, it is best suited to technical experts. It can be overwhelming to the average business user who just wants to draw presentation-quality diagrams, without having to learn a complex program. Edraw Max provides sample drawing power while remaining easy enough for anyone to use.

2. Fully integrated with Microsoft Office
Like Visio, Edraw Max is fully integrated with Microsoft Office and other standard desktop software. Adding Edraw Max drawings to Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, or other Office documents is as simple as Copy and Paste.

3. Easy to Learn, Easy to Use. Small and Exquisite
Drawing does not need to start a new. Just drag the ready-made shapes from the library pane and drop them on your page. Drawing couldn't be easier! Provide pre-defined color scheme and style.

4. More affordable than Visio
Edraw Max is a fraction of the cost of Visio's, and our licensing plan is more flexible. There are no "software assurance" fees required to get upgrade pricing in future years with a lifetime upgrade guarantee. Your license is perpetual and you are assured of upgrade pricing for future releases.

5. Provides better support than Microsoft Visio
Edraw Max's standard tech support is both legendary and free! You deal directly with experts, not someone reading you answers from the knowledgebase. Recognized by Deloitte and Touch as one of America's fastest growing companies, Edraw Max is a dependable business partner that has been setting the standard in software support for more than 10 years.

Edraw makes your life easy than Visio

• Helps you look like a graphics professional, even if you can't draw a straight line!
• Easy "drag-and-drop" drawing skill required!
• Works hand-in-hand with Microsoft Office
• Automatic alignment for neat, crisp drawings
• Rich built-in symbols and templates
• Add real photos using the Image Plug-In
• Step-by-step tutorials
• Built-in flow chart templates and examples
• Import your own symbols and clipart, too
• Print anything from tiny labels to huge posters
• Save your drawings for the web as GIF, JPG, or HTML
• Easily convert drawings made in other software
• It is built to work easily with other programs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF
• And much more

User Reviews

Your Edraw Max program is outstanding! 1.Fully uses the Windows XP user interface. It looks very nice! 2.Fast and small! 3.Has the right features! 4.Priced right. I hope you keep the promotional price. Home users and students cannot afford software like Visio. 

Thank you for a simple-to-use drawing program! I am an engineer and have been beaten to death by Visio. With Edraw Max, I was able to finish a report on time and got praise from my boss for the illustrations.

Thanks you for your support. I can't tell you how often I marvel at the amount of work and skill that must have gone into this product. It's very impressive piece of programming.

Great value for the money! If flowcharting are the only thing you plan to use it for, Visio might be a bit of overkill. If you want to be using it for other things too though it would be better value for money. Visio is too expensive for my taste, and I have found a good flowcharting software. I just wanted to write to say Edraw Max is great value for its money! It is very easy to use! Cathy

It was similar enough to Visio, and other drawing programs I had used before, that it fit my working habits very well," he said. "I read a few of the tutorials in the beginning, and I was on my way.

With Edraw, I can quickly visualize a complex workflow process in a way that tells both the end-user, the hospital staff, and the system vendor how the planned system should operate.

I think I could do the same projects with Visio, but it would definitely take a lot more time and effort. Time is money, and with Edraw I am able to achieve more in less time. When I was running Visio on my computer, everything worked very slowly.  with Edraw, I can use several other programs simultaneously, without problems. There is just no need to pay for Visio when you can get Edraw for a lot less, and still do everything you need to do, Edraw gets the job done!

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