Edraw Max

Edraw Max integrates the 100% functionality and libraries while including the following functions: Flowchart, OrgChart, Network Diagram, UML Diagram, and Mind Map.

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Ideal Tool to Create Flow Charts and Business Diagrams

Versatile diagramming program, with features that make it perfect not only for professional-looking flow diagrams, organizational charts, business diagrams and charts, but also network diagrams, building plans, mind maps, workflows, fashion designs, UML diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, science illustration… and that’s just the beginning!

With more than 5000 built-in vector symbols, drawing couldn’t be easier! Create a wide variety of business charts and presentations based on free examples and templates while working in an intuitive and familiar Microsoft Office-style environment.

Create charts and diagrams to suit your requirements

In a corporate environment, the folks over in human resources need to be able to create organizational charts, some business presentations, and perhaps some directional maps and building floor plans to guide visitors through the facility. But, in the same company, the programmers and engineers also need software that lets them build UML diagrams, workflows, program structures, web design diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, and database diagrams.

What’s the solution? Buy separate graphics programs for each department’s individual needs and hope your company approves the purchase? Buy one graphics program which suits one group but forces the others to compromise and make do? What about none of the above?

Edraw Max lets you create charts and diagrams to suit all of these requirements and much more. With over 5000 vector symbols included and an extensive library of pre-drawn illustrations, you’ll never have to purchase another graphics program ever again!

Easy and powerful flowchart software

Using templates, shapes, and drawing tools, you’ll be able to intuitively build charts and diagrams that convey information more effectively than ever before. Using easy drag-and-drop design techniques, combined with automatic alignment and your choice of colors, fonts, and styles, building vector-based diagrams is quick and easy. Built-in examples facilitate the rapid creation of flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams and more.

If you are familiar with the Microsoft Office environment, you’ll pick up Edraw Max in no time. A key feature of Edraw Max is its flexibility. You can import existing Visio XML files, as well as a variety of graphics formats, and the projects that you create in Edraw Max can be exported in any graphics format, printed with full WYSIWYG support, or even shared with others as a standalone executable file. You can even link diagrams to underlying data to provide even more detailed information for your audience.

No other flowchart software gives you all this

Edraw Max is self-teaching software with dynamic help, designed to be easy enough for anyone to use without training, or manual, and there is almost no learning curve. Design and document based on a wide range of built-in shapes and free examples. Drawing couldn’t be easier!

Now a single user license allows one user to install the product on two computers as long as that user is the only user of the software. Edraw Max is a high quality product at an unbeatable price. Enjoy free maintenance updates and free technology support too.

Customer Reviews of our flowchart and diagram software

“Rather a light-weight yet incredibly powerful business graphics application that helps you with all of your drawing and graphing needs – from organization and flow charts – to database designs, home floor plans, and fashion design.”

“Create flow charts, organizational charts, building plans and network diagrams with minimal time and effort! A user friendly product – with good quality output – versatile (multipurpose).”

“Edraw offers fantastic value for money. If flow diagrams are all you need, Visio is a little overkill, and too expensive for my taste. Then I found Edraw, it’s incredible and increased my productivity. I just want to say Edraw is great value for money, and so easy to use!”

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Flowchart Software

Powerful but easy-to-use flowchart software and easy to create professional-looking flowcharts based on free pre-drawn flowchart templates and examples - with no drawing required.

It will assist you in drawing your flow charts with minimal effort and makes it very easy for beginners to draw professional looking flowcharts. Includes suitable connectors and styles or designs to ease the process of creating complex flowcharts. So, if you are facing difficulty in creating flowcharts or workflow is slowing you down then consider using flowchart software to enhance your productivity and speed. Free flowchart templates, symbols and examples will help to quickly create new flowcharts, workflow, NS Diagram, BPMN Diagram, Cross-functional flowcharts, data flow diagrams and highlight flowcharts. Numerous colors, fonts, shapes, styles, and symbols for each object in your flowchart are available to create your own templates that can be saved for future use.

Network Diagram Software

Network Diagram Software is ideal for network engineers and network designers who need to draw detailed network documentation. Edraw Network Diagram is light-weight, yet incredibly powerful, and can be used to create the following network diagrams: basic network diagrams, Cisco network topology, logical network diagrams, physical network diagrams, LAN diagrams, WAN diagrams, LDAP, active directory and lots more.

Built-in network diagram icons representing computers, network devices and smart connectors, help you create accurate network diagrams to use in your network documentation project. Lot's of network diagram templates, network diagram symbols and network diagram examples will help to quickly create the most common network diagrams. An intuitive interface helps to create accurate diagrams in minutes. Just drag and drop pre-drawn shapes representing computers and network devices. Double click and set equipment data. Create detailed physical, logical and network architecture diagrams, using a comprehensive set of network and computer equipment shapes.

Organizational Chart Software

Powerful but easy-to-use organizational chart software and easy to create professional-looking basic organizational chart, functional organizational chart, matrix organizational chart, divisional organizational chart and photo organizational chart.

Org Chart Software is the best way to visualize and understand your workforce and is used to illustrate hierarchical relationships. Our Organizational Chart software was designed specifically to help you create diagrams for human resources management, staff organization, office administration, management structures and family tree. It will help you visualize and structure information, add illustrations and drawings to your documents and make all this fast and easy. That's possible thanks to the program's intuitive interface, easy-to-use drawing tools, and lots of pre-drawn library objects. Free organizational chart templates, organizational chart symbols and organizational chart examples will help to quickly create most common organization charts.

UML Diagram Software

Edraw has the uml diagram tools to make it easy to create professional-look UML diagrams. Lot's UML diagram templates and UML diagram examples will help to quickly create most common UML diagrams. Easy to draw UML model diagram, UML use case diagrams, UML sequence diagrams, UML activity diagrams, UML collaborate diagrams, UML statechart diagrams, UML component diagrams, UML static structure diagrams, UML package diagrams and UML deployment diagrams.

Why Choose Edraw Max for it's Mind Mapping capability

Smart drawing guide helps layout the mind map shapes automatically. Drawing couldn't be easier!
Lots of high-quality topics, examples and templates.
Supports big size mind map and collapsible topics.
Supports multiple page Mind Map document and hyperlinks.
Themes, effects and quick styles help create professional-looking mind maps quickly.
Gain greater productivity in mapping with features like automatically aligns and add multiple topics one time.
Integrated with Microsoft Office application and easy to share.
Generics graphic formats support and WYSIWYG printing.
Distributed as Freeware for personal, NON-commercial use, non-profit organization, educational purpose. No subscriptions. No monthly fees.

Ready Made Symbols for Mind Map

The following template includes some logical shapes to draw a mind map.

The following symbols are part of the classic flags to draw a mind map.

Smart Drawing Guide for Mind Map

Topics do automatically connect when you drag them from the Mind Shapes library. So you need not connect topics one by one. To begin, drag a Mind Shape out onto the drawing page. The smart guide will show as the follow image.

Automatically Layout

Edraw layout algorithms enable the clear presentation of mind maps with the different mind map layout style automatically.

Start from Mind Map Examples

To efficiently create a mind map, it is best to start work from the pre-defined mind map template and examples.


Problem Solving	Self Analysis	Mind Map Topics

Easy Graphic Organizer

Easy-to-use graphic organizer with lots of templates help you organize, visualize, plan, create and share graphic organizers and diagrams.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

Graphic organizers assist you demonstrate relationships between facts, concepts or ideas with minimal effort and makes it very easy for beginners. Built-in graphic organizers and clip art present the concepts and relationship faster and work smarter.

Examples of Graphic Organizers

Edraw includes some powerful graphic design tools that can be used to create graphic organizers for learning. The following examples illustrate a wide range of graphic organizers.


Puzzle Diagram	Step-by-Step Chart	Spider Diagram


Sequence Chart	Problem Solution Chart	Planning Chart


Persuasion Map	Observation Chart	KWL Chart


Step List	Radial Diagram	Target Diagram

Project Management Software

As a Project management software, Edraw Max focus on creating common-used project management diagrams. It includes some template for project planning, time scheduling, cost control and budget management diagram, resource allocation chart, gantt chart, calendar reminder, project timeline, which are used to compress the complexity of projects.

Create professional-looking project management diagrams with minimum time loss!

Work Scheme Matrix	Timeline Diagram	PERT Chart


How to Draw Gantt Chart	Calendar Software	Gantt Chart

Electrical Engineering Diagram

Create engineering diagrams such as electrical, circuits and logic, fluid power, industrial control systems, process flow, P&ID and systems diagrams.

Create an electrical engineering diagram

Use the Electrical Engineering drawing type to create electrical and electronic schematic diagrams.

On the File menu, point to New, point to Engineering, and then click one of the following:

Basic Electrical
Circuits and Logic
Industrial Control Systems
Systems
Process Flow Diagram
Process and Instrumentation Diagram

These templates open an unscaled drawing page in portrait orientation . You can change these settings at any time.

Drag electrical component shapes onto the drawing page. Shapes can have data. You can enter shape data and add new data to a shape.

Enter shape data

Select a shape, and then on the context menu, click Property.

In the Shape Property dialog box, click in each item and type or select a value.

Connect electrical components using the Connector tool or connector shapes

1. Use the Connector tool

Click the Connector tool.

Drag from a connection point on the first shape to a connection point on the second shape. The connector endpoints turn red when the shapes are connected.

2. Use connector shapes

Drag a connector shape onto the drawing page.

Place the connector's begin point on the parent shape (the shape you are connecting from).

Place the connector's end point on the child shape (the shape you are connecting to).

When the connector is glued to the shapes, the endpoints turn red.

Add Text to the select shape

Label individual electrical component shapes by selecting the shape and typing.

Modify the property of symbols

Select SPST switch then click the Set switch position item in the context menu.

In the Shape Data dialog, choose a switch position.

So you can change the switch position by the predefined shape data.

Show an example of a basic electrical engineering diagram

The following electrical engineering diagram created by Edraw engineering diagram software. You can drag the build-in electrical symbols then connect them easily.

Building Plan Software

Create building plan (home floor, office layout, floor plan and electrical and telecom plan) easily with Edraw Max!

Vector-based building plan software with rich examples and templates. Easy to create building plan, home plans, floor plans, office layouts, directional maps and database diagrams. With pre-drawn libraries and more than 5000 vector symbols, drawing couldn't be easier!

Home Plan & Floor Plan

Home Plan - Use for kitchen and bathroom design, architectural and construction documents, space plans, remodeling, and planning additions.

Floor Plan - Use for commercial building design, space plans, architectural layout, construction documents, structural diagrams, and facility planning.

Office Layout

Office Layout - Create floor charts, floor plans, and blueprints for facilities management, move management, office supply inventories, assets inventories, office space planning, and cubicles.

Create electrical and telecommunication floor plans for design and construction including outlets, switches, and fixtures.

Ready made Symbols for Building Plan

Edraw is the quick and easy building plan software for creating great-looking office layout and commercial floor plans. It includes thousands of ready-made graphics that you simply stamp to create your drawing. Includes appliances, bath kitchen, building core, cabinets, electrical and telecom, furniture, garden accessories, wall, shell and structure, cubicles, office accessories, office equipment, office furniture, planting,wall, door and window.

Examples of Building Plan Diagram


3 Bed Floor Plan	2 Bed Floor Plan	Simple Home Plan

Office Layout Sample	Office Layout - Class Room	House Plan

More Features that make our building plan design software exceptionally good for drawing a floor plan, home plan or office layout

Provide rich floor plan samples and templates to make the process of designing floor plan easy!
Allows you to expand/shrink, mirror, rotate, move, and make a lot of changes to the entire floor plan and its elements with no worry about drawing or Math.
Custom properties for storing detailed information of the floor plan elements.
Rich text capabilities to annotate your home or office floor plan and different backgrounds to make the home and office layout look nicer.
Customizable grid and aid line and thousands of pre-drawn shapes for drawing building plans.
Drawing is easy! Just stamp ready-made graphics from the built-in libraries on your page.
No artistic skill is required. Aligns and arranges everything automatically to look great!
Export to graphic formats, PDF, SVG, HTML with hyperlinks.
Best of all, Edraw is easy to use, so you can enjoy the drawing power of a CAD program, but without the CAD hassles!

Business Diagram Software

Bring the power of clear, visual communication to your everyday work. Whether you manage people, projects, or networks, there's an edition of Edraw that will meet your business needs. And all four editions share a set of intelligent diagramming tools and a common graphics engine that help you convey your ideas successfully - no matter what they are.

Edraw is the business diagram software of choice for business and technical professionals who need to quickly and easily visualize, explore, and communicate information. With Edraw, creating a wide range of diagrams such as business process diagrams, work flow diagrams, value stream maps, TQM diagrams, and cause and effect diagrams is a snap.

With Edraw, easily diagram complex processes that conform to particular standards such as Lean or Six Sigma. It includes a variety of business process shapes so your diagrams look exactly the way you want. Easily collaborate with colleagues to create detailed process diagrams and use them as a key element in streamlining your processes.

Edraw Business Diagram Suite is the most powerful business and relational charting/diagramming package available. If you need to create advanced, completely customizable Flow Charts, Organizational charts and other relational diagrams from your data, then Edraw is the ideal solution for you.

Examples of functionality that Edraw Business Diagram is perfectly suited for include:

Creating Dynamic Organizational Charts
Creating Social Network Diagrams
Building Flow Charts and Block Charts
Diagramming your business processes
Decision Charts
Much more.

Business Diagram Examples

What are the Benefits of Business Diagram

Gain greater understanding of your corporate data, by visualizing business processes and acting on them.
Dynamically create advanced, customized Organizational Charts and Diagrams on the web.
Visually examine how people, business functions and other items relate to each other.
Create custom, reusable objects for rapid application development.
With just a few clicks, Edraw can connect, align, and evenly distribute shapes in your business process diagrams. Edraw can automatically connect shapes as you drag, drop, and rearrange them onto the drawing page, or connect existing shapes that are already on the drawing page.

Scientific Illustration Software

Draw scientific illustration easily from examples and templates!

Edraw Max is a vector drawing software and includes lots of scientific illustration template and examples which is easy to draw Physical Mechanics Diagrams, Optics illustrations, Chemistry Equation Diagram,Laboratory Equipment Diagram, Molecular Model Diagram and Mathematics Illustration.

Scientific Illustration Template

The Scientific illustration software includes a rich and wide field for creative activity in scientific illustration. The Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics shapes have been designed to take the tedium out of creating commonly used visual notations such as molecular diagram, chemistry test, physics illustration, and circuit diagrams.

The included shape libraries are:

Physics: Circuit Diagrams, Mechanics physics, Lenses, Mirrors, and Prisms, Light Sources and Waves, Magnetism, Pulleys and Levers, Vehicles.

Chemistry: Laboratory Equipment, Chemistry Equation, Molecular Model, Organic Compounds

Mathematics: 3-D Geometry, Analytical Geometry, Angles, Circles & Ellipses.

Create educational documents and presentations quickly with the math, chemistry and physics vector symbols. The following scientific illustration shapes are included in the Scientific Template:

Mechanics Physics Shapes

Molecular Model Shapes

The ability to add various diagrams into the chart or graph takes this template well outside the range of most spreadsheets.

Scientific Illustration Examples

The following scientific illustration examples were created using Edraw and are included as part of the software installation.

Lab equipment Diagram

Physics Mechanics Diagram

Optics Diagram

Fashion Design

Perfect vector-based fashion design software with abundant templates!

Are you full with amazing fashion ideas but unable to design them properly? Are you not a profession at drawing? Don't worry. Try our fashion design software, which gives you a wide assortment of model, hats, clothes, tops, bottoms, and shoes in a variety of colors and styles to design fashion dress. Just follow some steps to design clothing of all types for both men and women easily.

Fashion Design Software

Edraw Max gives you a wide assortment of model, hats, clothes, tops, bottoms, and shoes in a variety of colors and styles. It features simple but highly addictive gameplay, ten unique model with a variety of skin tones and hair colors, hundreds of cute clothing items to mix and match. With Edraw Max, you become master of Fashion Design easily. Templates are all vector and can be modified easily!

Vector Fashion Design Element

It's easy to change the color scheme for the dress and model. Every dress was drawn with our dress sketch software. The models and fashions are fully vector so you can customize them, alter them and create any kind of looks you want! So you can choose the sub element in the fashion to recolor it.

Fashion Design Templates

With model, girl dress, man suit, clothing templates and fabrics, designs can be created quickly and efficiently. Even a person who has never designed before will find it easy to design with our fashion design software. In addition to the variety of fashion templates, including hundreds of fashion items, Edraw Max gives novice and business professionals the ability to design charts, business diagrams and presentations. Try this clothing design software for free.

The following two templates are for the girl dress.

Fashion Design Sketching Tools

It's easy to create and manage your own fashion templates with the drawing tools. Edraw Max has an illustrator like tool set which an apparel designer needs to draw fashion design sketches, technical flat sketches, create and modify texture designs, design embroidery, graphic artwork, and more! The drawing functions are completely editable, allowing you to create any kind of fashion design you want.

Business Form Software

Form Design Software

Professional Form Design Software that is quick, easy and simple.

Edraw Max makes it easy for you to create business forms in your small business, saving you substantial time, paperwork, and commercial printing costs! In no time, you'll have a professional-looking, completely customized invoice, receipt, purchase order, fax cover sheet, budget table, billing statement and other forms that ensure you leave with more time to do what you do best - manage your business! It allows links and images. It can also export to PDF, PowerPoint, Word and Graphics.

Start to Create a Business Form

You can use the build-in business form template to create and present your billing statement form, competitive Analysis table, packing slip, budget table, sales invoice, receipts, product invoice, purchase invoice in minutes.

In the start page, you can choose the Business Form category. These templates let you create great looking billing statement, budget table, work order, receipts, purchase order quickly using its built-in symbol elements.


Billing Statement	Competitive Analysis	Fax Cover

Invoice	Packing Slip	Product Invoice

Sales Invoice	Work Order	Budget Form

All the symbols can be change the background color, line color. You can modify the border style, font too. It's easy to insert your company logo or other symbols.

Clip Art Software

Easy vector-based Clip Art drawing software with examples and templates!

Edraw Max includes more than 5000 vector clip arts to personalize your business diagrams, greetings cards, header paper, flowchart, network diagrams and much more! You need not extra authorization to distribute these clip art in your drawing with edraw max.

It's easy to change the color scheme for these clip art . Every clipart was drawn with Edraw Software. So you can choose the sub element in the clip art to recolor it.

The following symbols are parts of clip arts in the symbol libraries. You can enjoy them and get a first impress about Edraw software.

Clip Art - Business Scene

Clip Art - Profession

Clip Art - Office

Clip Art - Mind Map Symbols

Charts and Graphics Drawing Software

Draw charts and graphics easily from examples and templates!

Edraw Max is a vector-based chart and graphic drawing software with rich examples and templates for financial and sales reports, profit and loss statements, budgets, statistical analyses, accounting tasks, market projections, and annual reports. Easy to create flow charts, organizational charts, business process, UML diagrams, work flows, program structures, network diagrams, chart and graphics, mind map, directional maps and database diagrams. With pre-drawn libraries and more than 5000 vector symbols, drawing couldn't be easier!

Symbols for Charts and Graphics

This charting template helps you draw just about any chart or graph imaginable and in considerable detail. You'll find all of the usual variations of the bar, pie, and line graph, including 3-D versions of each. In addition, you have access to various matrix diagram, grid and chart and graph additions. For example, you can add annotations to the charts and graphs. Because you can easily include data from multiple sources, this particular template is often more flexible than equivalent charting and graphing in a spreadsheet. The ability to add various diagrams into the chart or graph takes this template well outside the range of most spreadsheets.

Charts and Graphics - Circular Charting Shapes

The following image shows some circle charting symbols for business presentation such as block loop, circular motion diagram, arrow loop circle, etc.

Charts and Graphics - List Shapes

The following charts and graphics symbols are some commonly list symbols for list steps drawings.

Charts and Graphics - Process Shapes

The following charts and graphics symbols are some commonly process symbols for business process drawings.

Cycle Diagram

Cycle diagram is used to represent a continuing sequence of stages, tasks, or events in a circular flow. Emphasizes the stages or steps rather than the connecting arrows or flow. Works best with Level 1 text only.

Gear Diagram

Gear diagram is used to show interlocking ideas. Each of the first three lines of Level 1 text corresponds to a gear shape, and their corresponding Level 2 text appears in rectangles next to the gear shape. Unused text does not appear, but remains available if you switch layouts.

Matrix Diagram

Matrix diagram is used to show the relationship of components to a whole in quadrants.

Pyramid Diagram

Pyramid diagram is used to show proportional, interconnected, or hierarchical relationships with the largest component on the bottom and narrowing up.

Venn Diagram

Venn diagram is used to show overlapping or interconnected relationships.

Basic Pie Diagram

Pie diagram is used to show how individual parts form a whole.

Balance Diagram

Balance diagram is used to compare or show the relationship between two ideas.

Web Diagram Software

Web Site Map Template

Use the Web Site Map template to discover links and generate a site map for a Web site on an HTTP server, network server, or local hard drive.

Site maps help you maintain and troubleshoot your site. Use them to analyze your site's organization and to classify its content. Site maps are particularly helpful when you inherit sites you're not familiar with.

Draw site maps for web sites on HTTP servers, network servers, and local hard drives.

Conceptual Web Site Template

Design conceptual diagrams and high-level architectures of home pages, Web sites, and hyperlinked documents.

A well-organized Web site begins with a plan. The first step in developing this plan is to brainstorm about the big picture - the site's purpose, content, and overall organization. You can stimulate this discussion by creating a high-level, conceptual diagram of your new Web site using the Conceptual Web Site template. You can also use this type of diagram to reorganize an existing site.

Web Diagram Software

Edraw Max is a vector-based diagramming software with rich examples and templates. Easy to create web site maps, conceptual web site and other web diagrams.

Ready made Symbols for Conceptual Web Site

Use these shapes to represent general content, such as pages, page groups, and related pages.

Web Site Map Shapes

Use these shapes to represent specific content, such as ActiveX controls, files, multimedia, and images.

Examples of Web Diagrams

Web Site Map

Conceptual Website

Workflow Diagram Software

Create workflow diagrams rapidly with rich workflow examples and templates. Provides some basic workflow knowledge and resource

You can use the build-in template to create and present your workflow diagrams in minutes. Easy to create diagrams of information flow, business process automation, business process re-engineering, accounting, management, and human resources tasks. Document 6 Sigma and ISO 9000 processes. A workflow diagram is a graphic representation of all the major steps of a process. It can help you:

• Understand the complete process. • Identify the critical stages of a process. • Locate problem areas. • Show relationships between different steps in a process.

Workflow Diagram Software

Many people believe workflow diagrams need to be created by someone with specialized programming knowledge, but with the right software, that's not the case. Even the most complex business processes can be mapped with Edraw Workflow software, which has been developed with a user-friendly graphical interface. The wide range of intuitive tools allows anyone to build professional, accurate work flow diagrams without any coding skills whatsoever. Edraw is a rapid and powerful workflow drawing software. Provides rich pre-defined shapes for drawing workflow diagrams.

Every shapes can be changed color easily. They are great for showing different departments in a company or different stages of a typical business process. Here are a few examples of the shapes:

Professional Workflow Diagram Examples Created by Edraw!

Workflow Diagram	Process Flowchart	Sales Workflow

Workflow Definition

Workflow is an essential element of business process management (BPM).

Workflow is a term used to describe how work is defined and how work is allocated and scheduled.

Workflow defines the sequence and conditions based upon which work flows.

Workflow handles the routing of work between resources. The resources can be people, systems or machines.

Workflow manages the order in which these steps are handled.

Workflow enables employees to monitor and, reconfigure the flow of a business process as needed.

Workflow Diagram Templates

Workflow diagrams present the logical flow of information through a system in graphical or pictorial form. Workflow diagrams have only four symbols, which makes useful for communication between analysts and users. Workflow diagrams show the relationships used and provided by processes within a system.

Traditional Workflow Template

See the follow traditional workflow diagram symbols.

New style Workflow Template

The following workflow shapes are new style workflow diagram symbols.

Visio like Workflow Template

Include Department, Workflow Steps and Workflow Objects. See screenshot:

Draw workflow diagram with swim lanes

Swimlane workflow is easy to present the workflow and activities across the roles and flow represented with it. Swimlane shapes are available in cross functional flow charts. You can use any of these diagrams to draw your workflow with the flow chart shapes.

Cross-Functional Flowchart

Cross-Functional Flowchart Definition

When a flowchart describes a process in which a number of different people, departments, or functional areas are involved, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of who is responsible for each step. A useful additional technique for tracking this, and for analyzing the number of times a process is 'handed over' to different people, is to divide the flowchart into columns. Head up each column with the name of the person or function involved in the process, and each time they carry out an action show it in their column. This is illustrated in the flowchart below which covers a simple purchasing process. It shows how control of the process passes from the person initiating the purchase, to the Purchasing Dept. and then to the Supplier.

Use cross-functional flowcharts to show the relationship between a business process and the functional units (such as departments) responsible for that process.

Bands represent the functional units. Shapes representing steps in the process are placed in bands that correspond to the functional units responsible for those steps.

The Cross-Functional Flowchart template is available in two locations. On the File menu, point to New, point to Business Process or Flowchart, and then click Cross-Functional Flowchart.

Cross Functional Flowchart Software

The essential purpose of this template is to help you diagram the relationship between a business process and the responsible party. Edraw supports both horizontal and vertical cross-functional flowcharts.

Click here to free download Cross Functional Flowchart Software. Then you can use the build-in template to create and present your swimlane flowcharts in minutes.

Should My Flow Chart Be Vertical or Horizontal

You can present any cross-functional process either vertically or horizontally. A vertical layout places slightly more emphasis on the functional units while a horizontal layout emphasizes the process. The orientation option you choose often depends on personal taste, rather than a strict requirement or guideline. You can also choose the number of bands that appears in the diagram when you create it. The best practice is to create enough bands to hold each step of the process you want to document.

Flowchart type	Sample	Purpose
Cross-Functional Flowchart Horizontal		In a horizontal layout, bands representing functional units run horizontally across the drawing page, highlighting the process.
Cross-Functional Flowchart Vertical		In a vertical layout, bands representing the functional units run vertically from the top to the bottom of the page, highlighting the functional units.

What is the difference between Deployment flowcharts & cross-functional flowcharts

As far as I have seen, there is no significant difference between both. Actually, deployment flowcharts and cross-functional flow-charts seem to be two synonyms for the same concept, otherwise referenced in one paper as a "Process Map". Diagrammatically, Deployment chart diagrams seem to me more like UML Activity diagrams with Swim lanes (if you're familiar with UML you'll immediately understand what I mean). In other words, deployment diagrams are flowcharts that focus on showing "who does which activity". I've came across a definition that says "A Deployment Flowchart shows the actual process flow and identifies the people or groups involved at each step.

This type of chart shows where the people or groups fit into the process sequence, and how they relate to one another throughout the process." I also came across a paper that identifies both as being the same: "The process map-otherwise known as a cross-functional flowchart or deployment chart-is an excellent tool for clearly displaying process flows across organizational boundaries and identifying delays, repetitive steps, excessive control points, specialized tasks, and potential points of process failure." So, I believe it is plausible to assert that cross-functional charts and deployment charts both refer to the same concept.

Cross functional: display the workflow and the functional positions who are involved with each step in the workflow

Business Card Software

Free Business Card Software - Easy to Design Business Card from Templates in Minutes

Business Card

Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. A business card typically includes the giver's name, company affiliation (usually with a logo) and contact information such as street addresses, telephone number, fax number, e-mail addresses and website. Professional business flyer design software that is quick, easy and simple.

Business Card Software

Edraw Max has the tools to make it easy to create professional-look business cards, greeting cards, flyers, brochures, business forms from Templates. It lets you create all kind of business cards then print, share them directly to your clients. Easily create a professional quality business card template or flyer for your small business in minutes. It can also export to PDF, PowerPoint, Word and Graphics.

Database Diagram

Easy database diagram making software for Chen ERD, Database Model Diagram, Express-G diagram, Martin ERD, ORM diagram and UML database diagram, Free Download.

Database Diagram Software

Database diagram is a visual tool that allows designers and developers to create and visualize a database. When creating a database, you can use Edraw Max to create, edit, or delete tables, columns, keys, indexes, relationships, and constraints. To diagramming a database, you can create one or more database diagramsillustrating some or all of the tables, columns, keys, and relationships in the database. Edraw Max can quickly and easily create a diagram for a database schema.

Database Diagram Examples

You can review the following database diagram example created by edraw max. You can find the example in the software start page.


Chen ERD	Martin ERD	PERT Chart

Geo Map Software

Full Geographic Reach of Your Business with Geo Map Shapes

It's easy to use the full geographic reach of your business with the our geological mapping software. Whether you're setting up sales regions, marketing campaigns, or computer networks, you can quickly find shapes for specific regions and countries by using the Search for Shapes feature. You can use the shapes to create your own customized maps or to add map shapes to existing diagrams.

These Geo Map Shapes representing most of the country/regions of the world (some are omitted because their boundaries are in dispute).

Geo Map Shapes

Edraw includes the geo maps of Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, N. America and S. America. You can also color the individual map shapes and borders and format the shape text to give your diagrams whatever regional emphasis you want.

More Geological Mapping Shapes

You can click the follow icons to review the geological maps of Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America.

More Geological Mapping Type - Directional Map

How It Works

Starting the Edraw Program

The Edraw interface has a similar look and feel to that of Microsoft Office 2010 programs. This makes it easy to locate features and easier for you to use Edraw with Microsoft Office programs, such as Microsoft Word PowerPoint. After you have installed Edraw, simply open it as you would any other Windows program. The following illustration shows the default Edraw window.

If you don't get the above screen, please click File menu in the Top-Left corner.

To familiarize yourself with the many Edraw templates available, click a Template Category and hover your mouse over the Template pictures. Edraw will display a short description of the selected template in the lower-left corner of the window. To begin working with a template, simply position your pointer over the corresponding graphic and double click.

Choosing a Template

The first step in creating any diagram is to choose your template. The template is your starting point - it provides you with the drawing tools (e.g., shapes, arrows, titles, and backgrounds) that you can use to create your diagram.

To use one of built-in templates, under Template Categories, click the category that you want.
Then click the template that you want and click Create.

Start from a Built-in Example

Edraw allows you to create new diagrams from the built-in examples. Every basic drawing type includes some classic examples. You can use the symbols or style free and start your work.

Office Style Like Drawing Environment

After you open a template, you'll see the drawing environment, which includes menu category, template with shapes, drawing page, and a help pane on the right of the drawing page (F1).

You can create your drawing on the drawing page, which represents the printed page and includes a grid to help position shapes. Edraw menus are similar to those in Microsoft Office 2010 System programs, so you'll find familiar ways to open, print, and save your diagrams.

Creating a Flowchart

Firstly you can drag the shapes (process, decision, data shapes) and text to the shapes. Then you add the connecting lines between the shapes. Next you may want to add free form text to the diagram, such as a title or comments.

Adding Shapes

Add shapes to your diagram by dragging (hold down the left mouse button and move your mouse) shapes from templates in the Libraries window onto the drawing page. Don't worry too much about lining the shapes up. Edraw helps you line up the shapes by "snapping" them to the Drawing Page grid. Please note that the grid shown on the drawing page does not print out when you print the diagram.

Deleting Shapes

Deleting shapes is easy. Just click the shape and then press the DELETE key.

Move and Resize Shapes

Move a shape

Click the Pointer tool , and then point to a shape. (The pointer changes to a four-headed arrow .) When the shape is selected, its selection handles appear.
Drag the shape to where you want it.
If snapping (snap: The ability of shapes, guides, grid lines, and other elements in the Edraw program to pull shapes and other elements into position when they are moved and sized.) is on, the shape may jump into place.
Note Be careful not to point to a selection handle when you move a shape. If you accidentally resize a shape, immediately click Undo on the Edit menu.

Move multiple shapes

Select the shapes that you want to move.Note To select multiple shapes, click the Pointer tool , and then drag a selection net (selection net: A means of selecting more than one shape at a time by dragging the Selection tool to define an area that encloses all the shapes to be selected.) around all the shapes that you want to select.
Place the pointer over one of the shapes. (The pointer changes to a four-headed arrow .)If one of the objects you're moving is a group, the pointer won't show the four-headed arrow unless it is over one of the shapes in the group.
Drag the shapes to their new positions. All selected shapes move the same distance and direction from their original positions.

Resize one shape

Select a shape.
Do one of the following:
- If the shape has selection handles , drag a selection handle until the shape is the size you want. To resize the shape proportionally, drag a corner handle.
- If the shape has endpoints , drag an endpoint to the length you want.
Note Handles that are gray boxes indicate the shape is locked and cannot be resized, if you want to size it, you can modify the protection of the shape via right click menu Protection.

Adding Text to Shapes

You can add text to shapes. Just click a shape and begin typing; Microsoft Office Visio zooms in so you can see the text as you type.

Click the shape on the drawing page, and then type the desired text.
Alternatively, you could click the Text tool A, click the shape, and then type.
Click a blank area of the drawing page or press the ESC key to exit the text mode.

Adding Independent Text to the Diagram

You can also add text that's not associated with any shape, such as a title or list, to the drawing page. This type of text is called independent text or a text block. Use the Text tool to just click and type.

Click the Text tool A.
Click the page where you want the text to appear on the diagram.
hen type the desired text.

Connecting the Shapes with the Connector Tool

In Edraw, you create connections by attaching, or gluing, one-dimensional shapes called connectors to two-dimensional shapes. Connectors stay glued when you move the shapes. For example, when you move a flowchart shape connected to another shape, the connector repositions to keep its endpoint glued to both shapes.

You use the Connector tool to create connections. Note People new to Edraw often use the Line tool to connect shapes. Using the Connector tool is a much better method. When you use the Connector tool, connectors reroute, or bend, automatically when you move one of the connected shapes. When you use the Line tool to connect shapes, the connectors don't reroute.

Click the Connector tool .
Draw connection line as follow:
To keep the connector glued to a specific point on a shape, drag from a connection point on the first shape to a connection point on the second shape. The connector endpoints turn red when the shapes are connected.

Adding Text to Connectors

You can use text with connectors to describe relationships between shapes. Add text to connectors the same way you add text to any shape-just click a connector and type. A good example would be for Decision symbols. One arrow will have Yes or True and the other arrow will have No or False.

Apply or customize a document theme

You can quickly and easily format an entire document to give it a professional and modern look by applying a document theme (theme: A set of unified design elements that provides a look for your document by using color, fonts, and graphics.). A document theme is a set of formatting choices that include a set of theme colors, a set of theme fonts (including heading and body text fonts), and a set of theme effects (including lines and fill effects).

Edraw provide several predefined document themes, but you can also create your own by customizing an existing document theme, and then by saving it as a custom document theme.

Saving the Diagram

After you finish a diagram, you can save it the same way you save a file created in any Microsoft Office System program.

Note It's a good idea to periodically save your diagram as you work.

On the File menu, click Save As.
In the File name box, type Flowchart, and then click Save.

Previewing and Printing the Diagram

Before you print a diagram, you can preview it to ensure it will print correctly. In the Print Preview window, the gray boundary indicates the drawing page margins and edge of the printed page. Shapes that overlap this boundary won't print completely. Either move them or adjust your drawing page or printer settings, such as orientation, size, or margins. (To adjust page or printer settings, on the File menu, click Page Setup.)

Adding a New Page

To add a new page to your project, so the following steps:

Select Insert from the menu.
Select the New Page option.

Examples of Flowcharts, Org Charts and More

Edraw provides a wide variety of examples such as flowcharts, organizational charts, business charts, UML diagrams, database and ERD, directional map, network diagrams and lots more. Please choose any examples you are interested in, alternatively download them for free; you will need to install Edraw to view them. As you will see, Edraw is very powerful, you can use more than 5000 symbols, examples, and many pre-drawn templates, to create your own spectacular flowcharts, business diagrams, network diagrams and lots more, effortlessly, and in no time at all.

The following examples were created using Edraw and are included as part of the software installation.

Flowchart Examples