Visio Online is Now Available in Office 365 Commercial

Visio Online is Now Available in Office 365 Commercial

As part of a broader push towards cloud-first technologies in Office 365, Microsoft today announced that it has brought Visio Online out of preview.

“As a web-based, lightweight diagramming tool, Visio Online is the perfect solution,” the Visio team announced today. “With it you can create, edit, and share diagrams online, helping you visualize information in new ways from anywhere.”

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Note that Visio Online is not included with any Office 365 subscription: Its available starting today to commercial customers for $5 per user per month with an annual commitment. That said, Visio Online diagrams can be viewed by anyone within an organization, even those not paying for the license.

Visio Online comes with templates for variety of audiences, including starter diagrams for basic flowcharts, process diagrams, timelines, business matrixes, SDL diagrams, and more, Microsoft notes. You can securely share web-based diagrams through OneDrive for Business.

But with the general release, Visio Online is also picking up some new cloud-first capabilities, including:

Power BI support. Power BI is a cloud-based visualization tool that helps companies gain actionable insights from complex datasets. Starting today, Visio diagrams can be linked to live data and embedded in Power Bi dashboards.

Data Visualizer. You can now convert process map data from Excel into data-driven diagrams in Visio. This can help users surface new process insights and potentially come up with creative solutions to complex problems.

Visio Viewer for iOS. You can now view and interact with Visio diagrams on iPad and iPhone, including shared diagrams hosted in OneDrive or SharePoint.

PowerPoint Slide Snippets. You can select parts of a diagram and export them as slides in PowerPoint so that you can break down complex diagrams into more easily understandable parts.

You can learn more about the various Visio Online offerings from the Microsoft Office 365 website.

 

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  • Winner

    18 October, 2017 - 2:54 pm

    <p>Another piece of software that they'd rather have you rent, than own.</p>

    • skane2600

      18 October, 2017 - 3:21 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#208447"><em>In reply to Winner:</em></a></blockquote><p>Renting isn't too bad if you have no commitment and can just rent when you need it. Unfortunately it isn't the case here.</p>

    • lvthunder

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      18 October, 2017 - 4:22 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#208447"><em>In reply to Winner:</em></a></blockquote><p>You can't buy a cloud service. You have to rent it. This is Visio Online and not just the regular Visio which I believe you can still buy.</p>

    • Jeremy Petzold

      19 October, 2017 - 4:22 pm

      <blockquote><a href="#208447"><em>In reply to Winner:</em></a></blockquote><p>Because paying less money for a product (used every day) that gets updated regularly is worse than a product you buy once and then slowly decays…..</p>

      • skane2600

        20 October, 2017 - 11:34 am

        <blockquote><a href="#208764"><em>In reply to Jeremy_Petzold:</em></a></blockquote><p>How do you define "decay" in this context? With rapid release all the rage these days, updates may introduce new bugs faster than they can fix them. Not to mention that the program that you've spend years mastering could suddenly change requiring another learning cycle. </p>

        • Jeremy Petzold

          22 October, 2017 - 6:46 pm

          <blockquote><a href="#209028"><em>In reply to skane2600:</em></a></blockquote><p>Office 2003 has decayed, as has 2007, and 2010 is pretty out of date.</p>

  • skane2600

    18 October, 2017 - 3:19 pm

    <p>When I first read the headline I thought it meant that a commercial for Visio Online was now available. Perhaps adding the word "Subscription" would make the headline clearer. </p>

  • yaddamaster

    18 October, 2017 - 3:22 pm

    <p>Really annoying that even a basic version of Visio isn't included with a 365 home subscription. </p>

  • Waethorn

    18 October, 2017 - 5:13 pm

    <p>Visio has been gimped ever since they removed the AD integration and server management. It was literally (or is it virtually?) a drag-and-drop server infrastructure management and mapping interface. Now it's just a goofy diagram application with less features than [the free] Google Drawings.</p>

    • Nomis69

      19 October, 2017 - 6:16 am

      <blockquote><a href="#208486"><em>In reply to Waethorn:</em></a></blockquote><p>You cannot be very familiar with Visio if you think "it's just a goofy diagram application with less features than [the free] Google Drawings."</p>

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