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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
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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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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I've been so impressed w/ the amount of resources, support and knowledge from our Customer Success Manager, Vanessa. Great resources. The product speaks for itself - awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

There isn't anything that I'm not impressed with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps to mindmap and articulate topics that arise in brainstorming. Organization of ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I find that using SmartDraw for my company flow charts is super easy yet completely efficient for my work. The presentation and completed product are the most professional I've ever worked with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

So far, I haven't found any negative features and have been pleasantly surprised with how it is working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SmartDraw has helped me to create professional visuals for presentations and has enabled me to communicate with my team on projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I like that it is easy to use and create a professional-looking presentation of a floorplan, especially created by someone with no prior background in CAD drawing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

With some training, I feel like I could get the most out of the service, but I seem to be missing some furniture that is not available that could be. A more complete furniture listing would be helpful for accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

For a renovation proposal, I was tasked with coming up with some ideas of how we could layout our work room, perhaps even including moving walls. SmartDraw allowed me, with no experience, to come up with a concise plan that looked professional and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I love the diversity of plans that can be drawn and the wide variety of templates available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

The only downside for me is the lack of a mobile app. The mobile web is nice but an app would be better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SmartDraw will help in Field diagramming and flowcharting. The low learning curve allows almost any of our users to log in and start using the product right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

SmartDraw has great support resources to help you get up and running with the application very quickly. The software is very capable, and there are dozens of templates to help you get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Sometimes, the flowcharting was a little quirky where it changed my shapes. It was a little frustrating, but It was not a show-stopper. I wish there was more integration with data sources, like Excel, to be able to build live dashboards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Like the flow charting for process diagraming. The mind mapping is also very good, and I like how the mind map can be converted to a Ghantt chart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I like the variety of templates available to me. The templates help with the creation of the design. It gives me a starting point. I also like the option to export it out. I also like the graphics they have pre done for me to use when i'm recreating network infrasture. The staff like the many graphic options for Personal injury matters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

It would be cool in the future to have a collaboration feature with design. Where more than one person can work on a "project' together.

Also intergrate with Document management system like Netdocuments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our law firm has different departments. Personal Injury for accident reenactment.

Facilities to design floor plans. IT design IT network infrastructure.

The benefit I realize, smartdraw helps us bring our vision to life on "paper" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

It's simple and easy to use and it's cheap and have same functions as other enterprise tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

So far everything is perfect and doing what it is supposed to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SmartDraw allowed us to provide the same features that were in another enterprise app (only assigned to a few users due to the license cost) to all of our staff members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

Easily get started on a project in minutes with a short learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

Many objects have fixed aspect ratio and can't be easily resized in single dimensions.

The rotation tools for objects are not intuitive at all. Some objects have a standard rotation handle but others require the use of the menu and to choose a rotation from a menu that is relative to the initial position which can be very confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed a basic CAD program to quickly create a drawing for a client proposal. We were able to create a drawing in a few hours and got the proposal! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

I like the ease of use the program allows. The site plan layout feature is great. The package pricing is fair. The quickstart templates are a great feature. Anthony Ray gave us an excellent explanation and walkthrough of how it works and showed us all the features that we had questions about. This was the only company out of 15 that can handle what we need to use SmartDraw for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

There was nothing that we found to dislike about SmartDraw. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It could help us with designing floorplans with plumbing lines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Britnie N.
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What do you like best about SmartDraw?

Flowcharts and mindmaps are ridiculously easy to make with SmartDraw- no dragging and dropping and adjusting lines & shapes to be perfectly centered/aligned with each other, just use the automation and the program knows to add the exact amount of space and alignment to make a very clear and understandable diagram. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SmartDraw?

I use SmartDraw mostly on my desktop computer for more screen space. I wish I could drag my diagram left/right/up/down by holding my right mouse button inside the work area, instead of using the scroll bars on the sides. Sometimes the scroll bars are hard to see on my screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SmartDraw helps me create clarity with my teams at work and doesn't cost me hours of time to do so. My diagrams are mostly flowcharts to communicate user experience steps for product development- I'm mostly trying to communicate this to my UX Designers, but it also helps create clarity for my Engineering Team when it comes to the development part of the product lifecycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.