Visio Professional 2013, from Microsoft, is used to create and share professional, versatile diagrams that simplify complex information. It includes all of the functionality of Visio Standard 2013 as well as updated shapes, templates, and styles. It enhanced support for team collaboration, including the ability for several people to work on a single diagram at the same time, and the ability to link diagrams to data. Visio Professional 2013 also adds additional stencils for business and engineering diagrams, process diagrams (including Business Process Model and Notation, maps and floor plans, network diagrams, and software and database diagrams. With Visio, you can quickly capture a flowchart that you brainstormed on a whiteboard, map an IT network, build an organizational chart, document a business process, or draw a floor plan. Visio 2013 provides new features designed to help you create diagrams more intuitively?including new and updated shapes and stencils, improved effects and themes, and a coauthoring feature that makes teamwork easier. You can also make your diagrams more dynamic by linking shapes to real-time data and then share them with others through a browser using Visio Services in SharePoint, even if they don?t have Visio installed.
