SmartDraw Wins "Smart Choice" Award from Smart Computing Magazine

San Diego, Calif. — March 1, 2001 - SmartDraw.com (Draw Anything Easily™), a leading provider of affordable business and technical diagramming software, today announced that its SmartDraw 5.11 software has been selected for the coveted "Smart Choice" Award by Smart Computing Magazine.

In the April issue of Smart Computing Magazine, the editors compared SmartDraw with Flow Charting PDQ Lite®, by Patton & Patton, Flow Charter® by Paraben, and RFFlow® by RFF Electronics. The editors set out to find a flowcharting program that offered affordable pricing, flexibility, powerful features, and ease of use. They found that only SmartDraw met all these criteria, and gave it their "Smart Choice" award as the best program in their roundup. "With its powerful combination of timesaving features, flowchart choices, and price, not to mention its user-friendly interface, SmartDraw 5.11 easily ranks ahead of the competition-it's a must-see for any would-be diagramming illustrator" reported Smart Computing Magazine. The review cites SmartDraw's powerful features, including intuitive aligning and spacing options, and SmartDraw's abundant shapes, symbols, and drawing templates. "SmartDraw 5.11 lets even the most art-challenged user create professional-looking floor plans, timelines, diagrams, charts, and much more," the editors found.

The April issue is currently on newsstands nationwide and is available on the world wide web at: http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2001/s1204/04s04/04s04.asp

SmartDraw.com is no stranger to press awards. Previously this year, SmartDraw won PC magazine's "Best Business Program" Award in the Ziff-Davis shareware competition-for the second time. SmartDraw has also won "Best Business Program" and "Best Graphics Program" awards from the Shareware Industry Awards Association, among many other awards and honors.

About SmartDraw 5.0
SmartDraw.com announced the release of SmartDraw 5.0 -PLUS nine new library collections with over 30,000 business and technical images- in July 2000. Each of the library collections is aimed at a particular discipline: Business & Charting, Floor Plans & Facilities Design, Network Design, Software Design, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Maps & Geography, Science & Math, and Clipart. More recently, SmartDraw.com announced the immediate availability of NetZoom Symbols™ for SmartDraw, providing IT, Network, and Telecommunications professionals with Over 35,000 vendor specific network equipment symbols and shapes from more than 750 network equipment manufactures - giving users unrivaled drawing power - and making SmartDraw the most cost-effective solution for diagramming complex network operations.

About SmartDraw.com
Founded in 1994, SmartDraw.com is the creator of SmartDraw, the world's most popular business graphics software. SmartDraw allows anyone to create professional-quality business graphics in minutes - no experience or training required. The Company is the leader in the emerging "Personal Productivity Graphics" market. This market is made up of ordinary computer users who want to create attractive and effective business graphics, but don't have the expertise to use software designed for graphics professionals. In mid 2006, SmartDraw.com surpassed the ten millionth download of SmartDraw. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, SmartDraw.com is privately-held and counts more than half the Fortune 500 among its customers. To download a free trial of SmartDraw, please visit: www.smartdraw.com.

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