SmartDraw.com Corporate Fact Sheet

Founded in 1994, SmartDraw.com is the creator of SmartDraw, the World's Most Popular Business Graphics Software.

SmartDraw makes it possible for ordinary people to create presentation-quality business graphics such as flowcharts, organizational charts, Gantt charts, timelines, floor plans and more in five minutes or less—no experience or training required.

Privately held by founders and employees. Financially self-sustaining and profitable since inception.

The SmartDraw.com website is one of the most frequently visited websites on the Internet. Each year more than two million people install and use SmartDraw.

Paul Stannard founded SmartDraw.com in 1994 to develop and sell business graphics software over the Internet. The company received its first order less than 12 hours after opening for business. On the strength of the product, with no outside funding, the company has grown rapidly to become the provider of the world's most popular business graphics software.

SmartDraw.com is the leader in the rapidly growing business graphics software market that is made up of the millions of ordinary computer users who want to create extraordinary business graphics, but don't have the expertise to use software designed for graphics professionals.

SmartDraw enables users to create flowcharts, organizational charts, floor plans, calendars, timelines, flyers and other business graphics.

SmartDraw Legal Edition is designed to help attorneys, law students and professors, investigators and law enforcement personnel create charts, diagrams and timelines for courtroom exhibits, accident reconstruction diagrams, crime scenes, mediation charts and more.

SmartDraw Healthcare Edition is designed to help healthcare professionals create patient handouts, dissertations, reports, presentations, staff education materials and more.

Instant productivity. With SmartDraw ordinary people can make presentation-quality business graphics in five minutes or less. This is possible because SmartDraw is not like other graphics programs that provide you with a blank screen and expect you to draw. With SmartDraw you start with a template that is specifically designed to create the type of illustration that you need. You enter your information and SmartDraw does the rest: building the graphic automatically using built-in rules and professional design themes to guarantee polished, presentation-quality results in just a few minutes.

Over half of the Fortune 500 companies, and representative clients such as the U.S. Department of Justice, Coca-Cola Beverages, Hewlett-Packard, Kent State University, Nike, Nortech International, Phillips 66, the U.S. Bureau of Census, and many more.

Technology Fast 50, Deloitte & Touche
Inc 500, Inc Magazine
Best Business Program, PC Magazine