Visio

What is Microsoft Visio?

Microsoft Visio is a real-time collaborative data visualization and diagramming app. From flowcharts to network diagrams, it includes many templates, stencils, and icons to help you visually communicate complex ideas.

Visio in Microsoft 365

Visio in Microsoft 365 is available to all faculty, staff, and students with an SFU Microsoft account. It includes everything needed to quickly sketch out ideas and colloaborate with others online.

Visio in Microsoft 365 includes:

  • Templates for general diagrams and basic flowcharts
  • Real-time collaboration, commenting, and sharing with the Visio web app or the Visio app in Microsoft Teams

Visio Plan 2

Visio Plan 2 is available to faculty and staff upon request who need more advanced features to help with visual diagramming at the university.

Includes everything in Visio in Microsoft 365, plus:

  • Thousands of shapes and Microsoft product icons
  • Cross-functional flowcharts, detailed network diagrams, and IT diagrams—Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Software and database diagrams—entity relationship diagrams (ERD), Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.5)
  • Mind maps and organization charts
  • Grids, layers, and containers
  • Shape data
  • Power BI integration
  • Access to more than 250,000 shapes and various partner-created solutions
  • Visio desktop app with offline and local file support
  • Advanced process diagrams and Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0)
  • Floor plans and office layouts
  • Piping and instrumentation (P&ID), and engineering diagrams
  • Electrical diagrams
  • Timelines
  • Data connectivity (two-way sync)
  • Custom shapes with programmability
  • Power Automate, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint integrations
  • AutoCAD file support and data graphics

Available to

FacultyStaff & Students*

*Visio plan 1 is unavailable to students.

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