This eliminates the problem of trying to find the original source files for charts, for example, when last minute changes need to be made.īy enabling everyone in the organization to create visual presentations quickly and easily, SmartDraw VP allows an enterprise to cut through today's information overload and communicate more effectively by distilling complex information into an easy-to-digest visual form. SmartDraw also makes presentations easier to manage because, no matter how many visuals are added, the entire presentation is always contained in a single SmartDraw file. SmartDraw does this for you automatically." A much more effective way is to reveal the visual step-by-step with sequencing. "They will be too busy trying to absorb all the information to focus on the specific point you are trying to make.
"Showing a visual, like a data chart, to your audience all at once can be overwhelming," said Rick Altman, speaker and organizer of The Presentation Summit 2010, and author of the book, Why Most PowerPoint® Presentations Suck and How to Make them Better. Research shows that text-based presentations relying heavily upon written bullet points are generally perceived as lacking engagement and are ineffective in communicating complex ideas or large amounts of information. Create presentations faster with SmartDraw's PowerPoint® Builder.Keep an audience engaged with visuals that are animated automatically.Deliver more powerful, visually-rich presentations.SmartDraw not only makes it possible to replace boring text bullets with powerful visuals of all kinds, but it completely reinvents the way companies use PowerPoint®, and provides immediate and significant benefits by helping them: "When everyone in an organization uses visuals to plan, compose and manage their presentations, and then present them in a manner that improves audience engagement and information retention by up to six times, productivity and communication gains are instantly achieved. "Millions of presentations are created every day in businesses around the world," said Paul Stannard, CEO of SmartDraw Software. The result is better presentations in less time. SmartDraw Visual Presentation users are able to significantly more quickly plan, manage and create visually-rich presentations without ever having to open PowerPoint. SmartDraw's Visual Presentation solution uses visuals to both create and manage more engaging presentations.
Founded in 1994, SmartDraw is privately held, with headquarters in San Diego, California.SAN DIEGO, Ma/PRNewswire/ - Today, SmartDraw Software announced a new solution for businesses that want to significantly increase the effectiveness of presentations throughout their organization. Three-fourths of Fortune 500 companies use SmartDraw, as do more than 300,000 public, private and government organizations worldwide. SmartDraw visuals help to clarify communication, improve operations, implement plans and complete projects on time. SmartDraw spent the last 24 years helping organizations create complex, powerful visuals quickly and easily.
Facebook - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube To learn more about SmartDraw’s Open API visit: This week diagramming software maker Lucid Software announced a $72m capital raise to develop “capabilities to automatically create diagrams and merge visuals with external data sources” as part of their LucidChart application, implying that they too will eventually enter this exciting new market.
Outside of the ecosystem, it is used to build class diagrams from source code in Github, ER diagrams from SQL databases and sitemaps from Google sitemap XML files.Įxample of a PI planning board (SAFe) from Jira data automatically rendered in SmartDraw: Unlike competitive products, SmartDraw’s Open API allows developers to build sophisticated data-to-diagram functionality on their own, without any development effort from SmartDraw.Īfter a multiple year development effort, this API is currently being used in the Atlassian ecosystem to generate Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) diagrams from Jira data, Jira dependency trees, Confluence space maps and many other diagrams from data stored in these apps. SmartDraw released its Open API in early September, allowing developers to use SmartDraw’s Intelligent Formatting Engine to generate virtually any type of diagram from any data source.
Until recently there has been no data visualization software for non-XY data, such as hierarchical or relational data. Data visualization software typically takes XY datasets and displays them as a graph.