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SmartDraw Overview

What is SmartDraw?

SmartDraw is a data-driven diagramming and collaboration solution that can replace Lucidchart, Visio, or Miro at your enterprise. 1. License Everyone for as Low as $5 Per User Per Month Stop overpaying and save 75% over the price of Lucidchart, Miro and Visio. 2. All the Features You Need for Diagramming, Whiteboarding and Data SmartDraw gives you all the features you need and expect in one app: - Sophisticated diagramming - Whiteboarding - Powerful integrations that allow you to generate diagrams automatically - Ability to visualize AWS and Azure Plus an easy path to migrate existing files. 3. Control Your Own Data SmartDraw will save files directly to OneDrive, SharePoint, or Google Drive using your established folders and permissions, giving you full control of your data. Minimize risk, simplify compliance, and increase data security. 4. Simple Administration SmartDraw works hand in glove with your existing IT infrastructure without disruption to maximize what you've already invested in. You can provision users, save files, and set permissions entirely inside the Microsoft or Google enterprise stack. 5. Enterprise-Level Support As an enterprise customer, you will have your own dedicated support rep for onboarding, training, and more. SmartDraw customers range from universities and government agencies to over 85% of the Fortune 500.

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Product Description

SmartDraw helps you create over 70 different types of diagrams.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

SmartDraw has all the features you expect from an enterprise-class diagramming and collaboration software for less. And you don't have to purchase different modules and packages to get whiteboarding and data visualization. SmartDraw has everything in a single app for a fraction of the cost.

You can save money, reduce hassle, and get more! Unleash your team's productivity by combining enterprise-class diagramming, whiteboarding, and data.

SmartDraw also makes it possible to import your existing Visio and Lucidchart files.


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SmartDraw
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Year Founded
1994
HQ Location
The Woodlands, Texas
Twitter
@SmartDraw
3,179 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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50 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

SmartDraw is a unified visual app that combines diagramming, whiteboarding and data visualization into one enterprise-friendly solution. You can plan, execute and review ideas as a team, create presentation-quality documentation that help you make informed decisions, and visualize data to help jumpstart discussions. Looking for a powerful Visio alternative? SmartDraw will let you import Visio files and stencils and even export them for anyone in your organization who haven't made the switch. SmartDraw integrates with the tools you already use including the entire suite of Microsoft enterprise tools like SharePoint, Teams, Azure, and more, as well as Google Workspace and Google drive and the Atlassian stack. Over 85% of Fortune 500 companies use SmartDraw, as do more than
50,000 public, private and government organizations worldwide.


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Bryan L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Agile and sweet"
its simple to use and the cost per user is low.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to use and understand"
I like that everything is logically and thoughtfully organized. I can add items i or my team will commonly use and share them amongst ourselves.
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Chris R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Better when they did an offline application but still good"
Familiarity Compatibility with other tools (including the obligatory Visio)
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SmartDraw Demo - Document Processes
Click simple commands and SmartDraw builds your flowchart for you, automatically. Add or remove a box, and SmartDraw realigns and arranges all the elements so that everything looks great.
SmartDraw Demo - Run Retrospectives
Don't just have a discussion, but visualize what your team believes worked and didn't work during the last sprint. Document thoughts and ideas that will help the team become better and more efficient in the future without assigning blame.
SmartDraw Demo - Create Product Roadmaps
Give strategic context to your team, not just rigid deadlines, with the help of product roadmaps. SmartDraw makes it easy to document development goals, plot features, and provide a quick snapshot of progress in a way that makes the most sense to your team and organization.
SmartDraw Demo - Document Your Network Architecture
Optimize your cloud infrastructure by documenting your existing setup. Connect your AWS account and generate a visual automatically. Use it in reports to communicate with stakeholders or use it as the foundation for building something new with your IT team. Troubleshoot, train and work on future ...
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Ray P.
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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

They have been great through the whole transition process. We have been doing hand drawn plans for years. This program made it so much more efficiant and cleaner. The customer service has been great always answering our questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Have not really found anything yet. It has been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

There has been no problems for them to solve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

miles m.
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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

The ability to draft in many ways allowing to put in individuals standards into each draft. And was pretty quick to get the hang of and get moving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Cant say I've come across any dislikes as of yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

it is making our drafts cleaner, easier to read ad much more profesional looking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

The spoftware is streamlined and easy to navigate. Perfect software for organizatyional charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Login and file type is cumbersome compared to Visio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps the Utility quickly produce professional looking org charts. We are using it as a replacement for Visio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Srikanth B.
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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

Good for flowcharts, VSM, and many more with a lot of symbols and shapes. This helps to project the as-is models of the projects and also re-imagine the new pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

I feel that there is no option for the page borders, instead, there are some alternatives for borders by picking up the shapes and not filling any colour in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SmartDraw:

We can start using this software as this is free software. and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

Flowcharts, VSM, swimlane charts, and detailed process maps can be prepared with the help of smartdraw. This helps the business owners or the product owners to see the high level process diagrams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

Great price and built-in templates and user friendly interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

The import of Visio files works but some things don't save correctly, like an Org Chart was saving oddly inside of SmartDraw where it was reducing the size of the first page of the multi-page org chart. You also cannot highlight specific parts of the drawing by dragging and selecting over it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

it brought the features of diagramming to more people due to the subscription models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

The tool is very user friendly and has some useful tools for creation of plans, for example Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Sometimes I struggle a little bit if there is too many info Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

it is possible now to copie-paste easily images Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christopher S.
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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I use it to make modern setting maps for my roleplaying game. It's easy to create line draw maps, that are cheap to print through blueprinting sites! Easy to create a house, hospital or parking garage in a few hours! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Sometime I can't turn off the line snaps, and have to "trick it" to place the lines where I want it! Help content needs work too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy map drawing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JS
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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

A lot of templates with corresponding library also made for people that don't have a CAD background. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Not easy to be precise. Some bacsic actions due to easy approach become a challenge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

No need for drawing knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I can draw along with my professor as we work on projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Nothing that I can think of. Hopefully my other classes will get access to Smartdraw soon too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

Able to understand the course material easier by walking through it with my professor at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JC
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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

Really easy to use. lots of feature. fast to draw a diagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Can't drag and drop picture on your drawing on the windows software. I would understand on the web app but the .exe software should be able to drag and drop picture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SmartDraw solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's a tool, not solving any problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.