Visio Professional 2019 vs. Visio Professional 2021

Visio Professional 2019
versus
Visio Professional 2021

Comparison of features and utilization

Visio Professional 2019: Features and utilization

In the Visio Professional 2019 version, all the familiar functions are available that make Visio one of the most popular tools for presenting information graphically. These include:

  • Organize complex ideas visually
  • Countless templates, including flowcharts, org charts, timelines, floor plans, business process models, data flow diagrams, and process flow diagrams
  • Add and connect shapes, text, and images to show relationships in your data
  • Give diagrams a professional look using styles, effects, themes, and backgrounds
  • Create dynamic diagrams and link them to data from Excel, Access, or SharePoint

Visio Professional 2019 includes important new features such as:

  • Get started quickly with your diagrams
  • The Organizational Chart, Brainstorming, and SDL templates provide new starter diagrams to help you get started quickly and immediately.
  • Integrated database model diagrams
  • The new Database Model Diagram template accurately models your database as a Visio diagram. No add-on required.
  • Create wireframe diagrams for websites
  • Bring ideas to life with a Visio wireframe model! A wireframe is a detailed visual model of the user interface - similar to a blueprint of features and content. These new templates for websites and mobile apps are ideal for creating a low-fidelity design sketch to represent ideas, build consensus with the team, and lay the foundation for a high-fidelity wireframe model.

Visio Professional 2021: New functions

Visio Professional 2021 includes updated shapes, templates, and styles. Improved support for team collaboration, including the ability for multiple people to work on a single diagram at the same time and the ability to instantly link diagrams to data.

Visio Professional 2021 also helps prevent information leaks by enabling Information Rights Management and assigning specific rights to users.

Comparison of Visio Professional 2019 and Visio Professional 2021

Functions in comparison

Visio Professional 2019

Visio Professional 2021

Creation of graphic shapes and stencils incl. templates

x

x

Connections of shapes, text and images

x

x

Dynamic diagrams with external data, e.g. Excel, Access,

x

x

Database model diagrams

x

x

Wireframe diagrams

x

x

Export options for various data formats

x

x

Draw on touch-enabled devices

 

x

Real-time team collaboration

 

x

Improved user interface

 

x

Support for OneDrive, SharePoint, diagrams on the web

 

x

Rights management enhancements

 

x

Instantly link diagrams to data

 

x

AWS templates and AWS shapes for Amazon Web Service

 

x

New Azure templates and Azure shapes

 

x

Planning Social Distancing in the Workplace

 

x

Wireframe diagrams for mobile apps

 

x

Crime scene investigation, new stencils

 

x

New colors hexadecimal

 

x

Prepared library images, symbols

 

x

Conclusion

With Visio Professional 2021, Microsoft takes another step towards improved integration with OneDrive and SharePoint, as well as real-time collaboration between employees.

Team collaboration, i.e. working on a document in a team at the same time and storing it in the cloud, is significantly easier. The improved user interface also contributes to this.

An improved user rights system prevents sensitive data (such as during reorganizations) from being accessed by unauthorized users.

Furthermore, some efforts have been made in terms of updating and extending templates and stencils, such as templates on Azure, AWS, workspace planning, wireframe diagrams, etc.

In summary, from our point of view, Visio Professional 2021 is a successful update of the very popular Visio Professional 2019.