SmartDraw is used to create business graphics such as flowcharts, organization charts, Gantt charts, timelines, mind maps, floor plans, and other diagrams.SmartDraw is also available in two industry-specific solutions: the SmartDraw Legal Edition and the SmartDraw Healthcare Edition.SmartDraw 2008 is a versatile program that helps you easily create various drawings from flowcharts to floor plans. Comes with numerous templates and symbol libraries to get you started quickly. Allows you to export your drawing to several popular formats including PDF, MS Word, Excel or PowerPoint. Neat features include creating maps, flyers, charts, diagrams, business cards, and more.SmartDraw offers specialized versions of their software including a Legal Edition and Healthcare Edition example for Windows XP, 2000, or Vista. SmartDraw is acceptable landscape-design software for those averse to drawing by hand. Pretty symbols can be dragged-and-dropped onto your canvas, allowing amateurs to create attractive landscape plans. But as one who doesn't mind drawing his own sketches, I can't say that I was won over. When it comes right down to it, I'd still rather throw away a messed-up first draft done on paper than search under a software program's "Help" menu to learn how a tool work.
SmartDraw Helps Software Architect Visualize Financial Processes. SmartDraw comes with more than 20,000 symbols and hundreds of templates, including templates for software and network design, database diagrams, financial and banking processes, and much more. In addition, SmartDraw includes dozens of SmartTemplates, each loaded with a diagram-specific command set and step-by-step instructions, turning even novice users into instant experts. "I really liked the examples and templates and libraries," said Bartek.SmartDraw includes many symbols that Bartek could use time and again in his diagrams—including symbols for business components, cash services, databases, and software graphical user interfaces. SmartDraw also allowed him to build his own symbol libraries, full of specialized or frequently-used symbols that Bartek could access again and again.Smartdraw scores points in online games design, It's not all fun and games for the movers and shakers in the online game industry. Just ask Dustin Juliano, President and CEO of Ethereal Evolution, Inc., and creator of Universe Unlimited, an ambitious online multiplayer game.Pressed for time, Juliano was looking for a quick way to create visual representations of his new game in its development stage. The answer? Flowcharting software. Flowcharts allow us to see the 'big picture,' upfront, so I don't have to spend time coding something that wouldn't have worked because of the design," he said. "Completing these complex projects would be nearly impossible without flowcharts. With SmartDraw, can started creating flowcharts right away. We didn't even need to use the tutorials.The interface was just so intuitive.The intelligent tips helped a lot, and kept me up-to-speed on all the features was using. As a developer, he or she can appreciate the extra attention to detail that took."
Juliano was also impressed with SmartDraw's speed his number one priority. SmartDraw offers easy drag-and-drop drawing, and hundreds of symbols specific to software design. That meant Data Flow Diagrams, GUIs, and UML diagrams were just minutes away.SmartDraw is much faster than Visio.We could tell it would save time by allowing to design, and redesign, software diagrams quickly."SmartDraw Legal Edition delivers all the benefits of SmartDraw business graphics plus additional specialized features to meet the specific needs of legal and law enforcement professionals.With SmartDraw Legal Edition anyone can create great looking legal and business graphics in minutes, not hours. SmartDraw anticipates your needs—giving you pre-drawn templates, automating design, and making it easy to turn your information into brilliant illustrations fast.
As of May 2008, the license agreement contains a clause in which SmartDraw "has the right to access and inspect your facilities, servers and computers for the foregoing purpose, including by using remote software monitoring tools without further notice to you." This is a possible privacy concern as it reserves the right to use spyware on the user's computer.FeaturesSpecialized Support for More than 50 Types of GraphicsSmartDraw includes specialized SmartTemplates for more than 50 types of graphic, each with a custom tailored SmartPanel and help. SmartDraw is the only business graphics program you'll ever need.SmartDraw Draws for YouCreate graphics without manually drawing. SmartDraw draws for you. Use simple buttons on the SmartPanel to add shapes and SmartDraw places them in just the right position with the appropriate connections. These days, Vaught uses SmartDraw for software design several times a week. It allows us to completeour work very quickly... much faster than we could with Visio®.SmartDraw saves a ton of time. If had to do work in Visio®, it would take twice as long. That's if didn't get frustrated and give up.Vaught finds SmartDraw not only quicker to work in, but more flexible as well. In short, it allows him to do more in less time.According to Vaught,he always found himself being limited with Visio® or Rational Rose.SmartDraw let us do everything that we needed to do.SmartDraw also yielded a surprising, yet beneficial by product. Vaught had purchased a new building, and he needed a way to create floor plans. SmartDraw's Floor Plans & Facilities symbol collection was the perfect solution.SmartDraw allowed to quickly make all the floor plans for our new building. I couldn't believe it. This single tool replaces my Visio®…and my floor plan design tools.The bottom line? Vaught says SmartDraw is a great investment. I recommend it all of the time,said Vaught.
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