SmartDraw: A More Productive Drawing Tool Than Visio^®

More often than not, Microsoft's Visio^® is chosen by IT staff not because it's the most productive tool but because everything else they buy is from Microsoft^®.

But productivity is achieved not by how software works with software, but by how people work with software.

And people who have tried both agree that SmartDraw beats Visio^® in delivering "instant productivity," and there are no training costs and no support costs either. Why? Because SmartDraw requires no training to use and includes FREE support!

Free, Live, 24-Hour Support

Unlike Visio^®, SmartDraw provides free, live support via phone and email. How can we do this? Simple: our product is so easy to use you won't even have to call support!

You can also take advantage of tips, tutorials, as well as built-in SmartPanels and SmartHelp. And with SmartDraw, you are getting help directly from our experts, not from someone just reading you text from a corporate database.

SmartDraw Is More Affordable

It's not just instant productivity and free support driving people to choose SmartDraw over Visio^®; it's also costs—both time and money. With Visio^®:

• there is almost always training required (at a cost!);
• there are often license renewals (at a cost!);
• there can be maintenance (at a cost!); and, amazingly,
• VISIO'S^® PURCHASE PRICE IS HIGHER TO BEGIN WITH!

SmartDraw's Freedom and Volume License pricing is a fraction of the cost of Visio's^®. With SmartDraw there are no "software assurance" fees required to get upgrade pricing in future years; your license is perpetual and upgrades are optional. SmartDraw also delivers more bang for the buck via its non-existent training costs.

SmartDraw Works with What You Know

SmartDraw works perfectly with Microsoft Office^®! Placing SmartDraw drawings into a Word^®, PowerPoint^®, or Excel^® document is literally as simple as copy and paste, and vice versa: you can add graphs, equations, images, and fancy text created in an Microsoft Office^® application to SmartDraw with a simple copy and paste, too.

And if you've already been using Visio^® and want to switch to SmartDraw, we have made it as easy as possible for you. SmartDraw's built-in File Conversion Wizard will convert existing Visio^® files to the SmartDraw format. If people on your staff still require Visio^®, you can use SmartDraw and Visio^® together in the same environment.

However, if cost and immediate usability aren't that critical for you and you are still debating between SmartDraw and Visio^®, check out some more basic reasons to choose SmartDraw.

Basic Reasons to Choose SmartDraw Over Visio^®

SmartDraw Is Better for Everyday Business Users: Although Visio^® is a powerful product, it is best suited to technical experts. It can be overwhelming to the average user who just wants to draw presentation-quality diagrams—without having to learn a complex program. SmartDraw provides ample drawing power while remaining easy enough for anyone to use.

SmartDraw Is More Versatile than Visio^®: SmartDraw includes more than 20,000 ready-made symbols and 2,400 templates that cover a much broader array of diagram types than Visio^®. SmartDraw also lets you import or create your own symbol libraries, allowing you to easily customize the solution for your business.

SmartDraw Creates Better Presentation-Quality Graphics: Most of Visio's^® built-in symbols are simple line drawings and stick figures. SmartDraw includes tens of thousands of rich, colorful built-in symbols to help you look like an artist even if you can't draw a straight line.

SmartDraw also offers robust, ready-made color themes (with shadows, glows, and gradients) that will give your entire drawing a professional finish with a few mouse-clicks, whereas Visio^® offers some simplistic, ready-made color schemes that don't really compare.

And if it's clip art you want, SmartDraw gives you more than 7,000 built-in clip art graphics, whereas Visio^® gives you less than 500.*

SmartDraw vs. Visio^®: Symbols

SmartDraw vs. Visio^®: Colors

SmartDraw vs. Visio^®: Clipart

And unlike Visio^®, SmartDraw maintains imported bitmapped images in their compressed state and allows them to be edited, cropped, rotated, filtered, and more, simply by double-clicking on them.

Add it all up, and the savings and productivity gains your department or organization can enjoy using SmartDraw are endless!

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