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In Searching of Alternative to MS Visio for Mac and PC
with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Undoubtedly MS Visio is a powerful and multifunctional tool, but however at times occur the instances, when it turns unable of meeting certain users' requirements. At this cases you may need to use an alternative program software, preferably it will be simple, convenient, and at the same time powerful and professional. In searching the alternative to MS Visio for MAC and PC we recommend you to pay attention for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software, which was developed to satisfy all your drawing needs and requirements. It is a fully-functioned alternative product to MS Visio for both platforms. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software has many advantages, the main among them are the cross-platform compatibility, a reasonable price, widespread ConceptDraw Solution Park with huge variety of different solutions that offer numerous libraries of specialized vector objects, useful examples, samples, and quick-start templates, extensive import / export capabilities, built-in script language, MS Visio support and certainly free technical support.

Is ConceptDraw DIAGRAM an Alternative to Microsoft Visio?

Visio for Mac and Windows - ConceptDraw as an alternative to MS Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM delivers full-functioned alternative to MS Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM supports import of Visio files. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM supports flowcharting, swimlane, orgchart, project chart, mind map, decision tree, cause and effect, charts and graphs, and many other diagram types.
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How to Open MS Visio® 2013-2019 Files on a Mac®

Powerful business graphics and diagramming tools is the norm and not the exception for today’s businesses. For years the de facto standard file format for business has been Microsoft Visio™. Many people involved in visual communication need software tools that will read and write using the Visio file format. With the introduction of Visio 2013, Microsoft has changed the native file format used in earlier versions of Microsoft Visio. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM v12 file import and export works round-trip with the new Visio VSDX file format.

Visio Files and ConceptDraw

Visio Files and ConceptDraw. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is compatible with MS Visio.VDX formatted files.VDX is Visio’s open XML file format, and it can be easily imported and exported by ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.

Marketing Charts

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software offers the Marketing Diagrams Solution from the Marketing Area with extensive drawing tools, predesigned vector shapes, templates and samples for fast and easy drawing marketing charts and diagrams, marketing schemes and flow charts, various marketing illustrations, etc.

Business Process Modeling Software for Mac

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM - business process modeling software for mac offers the Business Process Diagram Solution with powerful tools to help you easy represent the business processes and create the business process diagrams based on BPMN 1.2 and BPMN 2.0 standards that allows to create of both simple and complex (nested) models of processes.

Hybrid Network Topology

A network topology is the topological structure or the arrangement of different elements of computer network. There are several basic types of network topologies, such as star, ring, bus, mesh. But the most popular is a combination of two or more diverse basic network topologies, which is known as hybrid network topology. The examples of hybrid topology are: star-bus, star-ring topologies, etc. Each resulting hybrid topology has its own features, advantages and limitations of its components. Hybrid network topologies are more flexible, reliable, and have increased fault tolerance, the faults in them can be easily diagnosed and corrected, new nodes can be easily added. But at the same time hybrid topologies often are sufficiently expensive and difficult for managing. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software supplied with the tools of Computer Network Diagrams solution from Computer and Networks area is perfect for schematic description various types of computer network topologies and easy designing Hybrid network topology diagrams.

How to Make a Timeline

Timeline is a type of diagram which illustrates the series of events in a chronological order on a linear timescale. How to make a timeline? It is convenient to use a modern powerful software. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Timeline Diagrams solution from the Management area is exactly what you need.

Market Chart

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a powerful diagramming and vector drawing software. Each Market Chart designed in it is professional looking, attractive and successful in using thanks to the Marketing Diagrams Solution included in Marketing Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.

GUI Interface

What is the ideal GUI interface? The interface of mobile device it's all that users see on it and can interact - screen, bars, icons of applications. So the interface is the first that draws the user's attention. The main goal of software engineers, GUI interface designers, and GUI developers is to make the interface first of all easy for perception and understanding, convenient and attractive for the users. The iPhone's GUI interface meets all these requirements.

Entity Relationship Diagram Software for Mac

Great part of modern approaches to the database design are based on the use of different versions of ER-models. The important feature of entity-relationship model is that it can be visually represented as a graphical diagram. ER-models and Entity Relationship Diagrams are so popular due to the simplicity and the presentation clarity. The conceptual basis led to their widespread use in CASE-systems, which support automatic design of relational databases. The typical concepts for ER-models are entity, relation and attribute. Relation is a graphically represented association between two entities, that establishes certain rules and all instances of the linked entity types are subject to these rules. In common ER-model this association is always binary. For representing entity-relationship elements, there are used Crow’s foot and Chen notations. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is a famous Entity Relationship Diagram software for Mac OSX which gives the ability to describe visually the databases with Chen’s and Crow’s Foot notation icons from Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) solution.

Business Structure

Each business is created, exists and develops according to its type of business structure. Creating new business or developing existing, you may need a powerful software for representing its business structure. In this case ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with 25 Typical Orgcharts solution from the Management area is exactly what you need.

Marketing Flow Chart

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Marketing Diagrams Solution from the Marketing Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is the best software for quick and easy creating Marketing Flow Chart of any complexity and design. This charts created to define marketing project stages. In small business project management it sometimes generated by simple marketing project management software. Here is samples which included in Marketing Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park and it can be used as for project planning software as for project management report.

Healthy Diet

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software extended with Health Food solution from the Food and Beverage area of ConceptDraw Solution Park perfectly suits for foods design and easy drawing attractive healthy foods and healthy diet illustrations.

All My Tasks

The communication's improvement fosters a positive team spirit and effective project realization. ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and ConceptDraw Solution Park supply the project participants and organizations with better tools, which assist in team's communication, in understanding tasks and time frames, project events in the entire organization. The powerful tools of ConceptDraw MINDMAP software and extensive set of solutions offered by ConceptDraw Solution Park create a single information space for messaging to teams. But for successful project's realization in addition to communication is needed to consider the list of tasks for execution. ConceptDraw MINDMAP offers all needed tools to create the list of tasks for any period of time - day, week, month, quarter, year, etc. This Mind Map designed with ConceptDraw MINDMAP software represents the list of tasks on the defined date. ConceptDraw MINDMAP offers wide visual capabilities for the maps, you can highlight the most important tasks with bright colors, add special symbols and text notes to your tasks, beautify the map with nice and colorful clipart.

Fault Tree Diagram

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and vector drawing software offers the Fault Tree Analysis Diagrams Solution from the Industrial Engineering Area of ConceptDraw Solution Park for quick and easy creating the Fault Tree Diagram of any degree of detailing.

How to exchange data files of major mind mapping software?

ConceptDraw MINDMAP software included to powerful ConceptDraw Office suite is applied for professional creation the Mind Maps, for effective managing the communications within the work group or team, for holding brainstorming sessions. The ability of exchanging the documents and files of different types, including Mind Maps is very useful for users that need to collaborate, but apply varied applications in their work. ConceptDraw MINDMAP supports the export to many Microsoft Office products, such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, as well as export to PDF, HTML, Evernote, Apple iCal, and different graphic format files. The Mind Map Exchange solution from the Collaboration area of ConceptDraw Solution Park makes the ConceptDraw MINDMAP software powerful in questions of exchanging the Mind Maps with large variety of major mind mapping applications, including Mindjet MindManager, FreeMind, XMind. If you can't to find some file format you need at the import / export list, you can refer to the third party applications to import or export the files through them.

Make a Histogram

ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with Histograms solution from the Graphs and Charts area of ConceptDraw Solution Park lets you make a Histogram of any complexity in minutes.