Ī no-cost trial version of SmartDraw 2010 is available. provides a video of Microsoft Visio-to-SmartDraw 2010 import process and other SmartDraw advantages.
SmartDraw 2010 builds on the functionality that 20 million users rely upon, and breaks down barriers that may have previously kept some enterprises from joining the SmartDraw revolution." The company says, "for 15 years, SmartDraw has been the easiest, fastest, and most cost effective way for businesses to communicate visually. says this is a faster way to create a "cohesive, compelling, and stunning presentation." When finished, simply click on the Microsoft PowerPoint icon to produce the slideshow, where all images, animation, and text are exported as native Microsoft PowerPoint objects, allowing further changes if needed. See the presentation at-a-glance before exporting it into Microsoft PowerPoint. Users create the presentation in SmartDraw’s storyboard, with thousands of smart templates, theme slides, images, and special effects. – Complete Microsoft PowerPoint Slideshow Animation: SDR 2010 allows users to plan, design, and build a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in a faster, easier, and more intelligent way. Mindmaps, flowcharts, and org charts now include numerous ways to add boxes. – Improved flowcharting, mindmapping and org charting capabilities: Now flowcharting keyboarding behavior is improved, organizational chart box spacing is uniform and increases or decreases with perfect alignment. – Microsoft SharePoint collaboration: SDR 2010 users from anywhere in the world can open a SmartDraw file on Microsoft SharePoint, mark it up and share it with others in the cloud. Imports and exports between MS Project files and SmartDraw Gantt charts enables managers whose responsibility encompasses only certain portions of a large project chart to easily communicate progress. Turn a mindmap into a Gantt chart and then into a timeline with a click-with dates populated automatically. Expand and collapse columns to see the overall project or just a portion. Turn task columns on and off at will, and add more columns as needed.
– Intuitive large scale project management: Gantt charts can encompass thousands of tasks. – MS Visio Filter: Microsoft Visio users can automatically batch and convert hundreds or thousands of Microsoft Visio files into SmartDraw files within minutes.
For 95% of businesses, having SmartDraw 2010 means they no longer need these expensive Microsoft software add-ons that only a handful of their employees know how to use." Stannard says SmartDraw 2010 "allows anyone to easily manage large projects or to create compelling business visuals while also enjoying increased functionality for a smaller price tag. This allowed everyone to create documents, not just those who knewhow to use WordPerfect. Then along came MS Word with its WYSIWYG interface. "Most people were content with it, even if it was cumbersome. "Remember WordPerfect? It was the de facto‘word processing’ choice of its day," recalls Paul Stannard, CEO and founder of. – New features include: Large scale project management Microsoft SharePoint collaboration better flowcharting, mindmapping and organizational charting capabilities Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow animation healthcare and legal templates. – SmartDraw requires little or no training, saving IT time for more business-critical IT jobs. – Files are easier to work with, faster (5 minutes to create and edit a flowchart in SmartDraw instead of 20 minutes MS Visio), and less expensive. Legacy Visio graphics saved as SmartDraw files easily can be changed, enhanced, added to, so users can "make them what they want them to be." – SDR 2010 has a long-awaited MS Visio filter, allowing import of MS Visio files into SmartDraw. – For 15 years, the SmartDraw features have been compared to Microsoft Visio-even though SmartDraw has always been more powerful, versatile, easy, and less expensive than MS Visio. Although Microsoft Visio is dominant with IT departments because of perceived lack of options (especially if users have many legacy Visio graphics), says SmartDraw 2010 is better because: