Visio Alternative for Mac August 19
ConceptDraw 7
is an alternative to MS Visio for MAC and PC.
What are the advantages of ConceptDraw 7 over Visio?
- Cross-Platform Compatibility
The main advantage, of course, is that ConceptDraw 7 is a cross-platform software. That means it can be run it both on PC, and on Apple Macintosh! Lately many people have faced difficulties with sharing their documents among Mac users. But from now on, you will have such a problem no longer, as using ConceptDraw 7 you will be able to work on Macintosh with a document created on PC. To run Visio on Macintosh you had to install a virtual machine to emulate PC, which made work difficult and slow a great deal. Now many users find ConceptDraw 7 a better analog of Visio for Macintosh. If you prefer working in Macintosh environment, then ConceptDraw 7 is your choice. - Obtainable price
Another factor of no less importance in choosing software is its price. Here ConceptDraw 7 turns more beneficial at the price $299 for Professional version versus $499 for the similar version of Visio. - Import & Export
Another ConceptDraw 7 peculiarity that is worth stressing upon is export to PDF and PowerPoint formats. Now you can easily design presentations and print your documents. - Numerous of specialized shape libraries
ConceptDraw 7 users, as well as Visio users, have an opportunity to work with numerous external libraries; with their help you can create various documents with no need to search for the necessary elements for your diagrams in other software products. - Built-In Script Language
The next point to be considered is the in-built language in ConceptDraw 7. It is ConceptDraw Basic. Unlike VBA language used in Visio, ConceptDraw Basic is much simpler to learn and use. You will not need any extra studying to use it, which will save you money. - MS Visio Support
A specific feature of products from CS Odessa Corp. is their intercompatibility. Thus, once created with the help of any other CS Odessa product, your document is fully compatible with ConceptDraw 7. For instance, at projecting of a network you use MindMap for brainstorming. Your MindMap documents can further be used in ConceptDraw 7 at work in your project. - Import files from Visio
In case you used Visio before and now decided to switch to ConceptDraw 7, here is another good news for you – ConceptDraw 7 supports import of files from Visio, using XML format. Thus, starting a new product you will not lose your documents created in Visio and you will not have to create them anew. Moving to new software for you will lie in just the following: - Export of your documents from Visio to XML format.
- Import of these documents to ConceptDraw 7.
- Free technical support
All ConceptDraw 7 users, unlike those of Visio, get professional technical support free, which is quite a nice and useful extra point to all the ConceptDraw 7 features.
