Visio Pro Diagram Tool

Microsoft Visio Pro for Office 365, available as a subscription through Microsoft Office 365, includes the same features, stencils, and shapes as Visio Professional 2013.

In addition, it allows each user to install Visio Pro for Office 365 on up to five PCs running Windows 7 or Windows 8.

It also adds Visio On Demand, which lets users temporarily install Visio on any PC running Windows 7 or Windows 8, and it automatically installs the latest updates, both feature and security, for the duration of the subscription.

Visio Pro for Office 365 has all of the same stencils as in Visio Professional such as:

1. Business diagrams, such as ITIL, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, PivotDiagram, Six Sigma, and value stream map

2. Engineering diagrams, such as electrical, circuits, and systems

3. Flowcharts, such as IDEF0 (Integration Definition for Process Modeling) and Microsoft SharePoint workflows

4. Process diagrams, such as BPMN, Business Process Model and Notation, 1.2 and BPMN 2.0

5. Maps and floor plans, such as HVAC, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, plumbing and piping plan, and space plan

6. Network diagrams, such as Active Directory, detailed network, and rack

7. Software and database diagrams, such as database notation, website map, and UML (Unified Modeling Language)

There are over 60 built-in templates, many with updated shapes from previous Visio releases.

Visio Pro with Office 365 Monthly Cost

Visio Pro for Office 365, which costs $156 per year — or $13 per month.

The Month to Month Visio Pro Office 365 subscription is $18. 

A one month Visio Pro Office 365 trial is also available.

You can compare Visio Pro Office 365 all the plans here.

TMD recommends
the $18.00 plan,
billed monthly

Visio Pro Download

The tool that is available in the monthly subscription download:

New Microsoft Account 

Free Trial 

Plan Detail and Buy

Be sure to read all the options available
as the pricing can be somewhat confusing

In Conclusion 

Microsoft Visio Pro for Office 365 is a perfect add-on to the Office 365 Suite of content and productivity applications.

Visio Pro gives the Modern Developer the ability to express ideas in Flow Charts, Sequence Diagrams, Cross Functional diagrams and many more way for creative expression.

Use Visio with the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications to extend your ability to present your Technological ideas to the world.

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