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IT teams are the backbone of any enterprise. From visualizing architecture to documenting and communicating complex processes, IT teams have to balance a variety of internal demands as they manage your organization's technology infrastructure. SmartDraw can help IT teams:
Optimize your cloud infrastructure by documenting your existing setup. Connect your AWS account and generate a visual automatically. Use it in reports to communicate with stakeholders or use it as the foundation for building something new with your IT team. Troubleshoot, train and work on future plans together. Open this AWS architecture diagram
Whether you need an Azure diagram so you can begin a new design and planning phase or you need to audit your architecture and include it in a report, SmartDraw makes it easy to not just generate your visual from your Azure data, but collaborate with your team. Open this Azure architecture diagram
Import your data and generate a visual of your Google Cloud architecture to help you understand your existing systems and help plan out future changes. Open this GCP architecture diagram
Help align IT goals with wider company initiatives. Your team can create a strategic plan for changes and digital transformation and communicate it with the rest of the organization. Open this IT roadmap
Document your guidelines for what your team needs to do whether it's rolling out new solutions or planning for disaster recovery. Get your team on the same page and make sure you have standard processes implemented. Open this flowchart
Keep track of IT assets and how they're distributed across your organization. Quickly see at a glance what offices and cubicles have what equipment. You can also easily design and document your own server rooms and see what equipment you currently have and make plans for future upgrades and expansions. Open this server room plan
You can search for vendor specific routers, switches, hubs, and gateways. You can also find symbols for vendor-neutral shapes for work stations, servers, clients, or peripheral devices. SmartDraw also gives you industry standard symbols for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
With powerful formatting AI, SmartDraw makes it easy to add shapes, add text, and move shapes so everything remains connected or inside their designated containers.
SmartDraw will work where you work. You can run SmartDraw from where you already collaborate with your team: Microsoft Teams®, Google Workspace™, or SharePoint®. You can add visuals easily in Confluence, Google Workspace apps, or Microsoft Office. You can import data from Jira and roundtrip back with new ideas. SmartDraw also works hand in glove with most file storage systems. You can save files directly to SharePoint®, OneDrive®, Google Drive™, and more. Learn more.
SmartDraw has best in class Visio® import so you never have to recreate network documentation that already exists. You can import VDX, VSD, and VSDX files and Visio stencils. Once imported, you can continue to edit and modify these diagrams like they were native to SmartDraw. Learn more.
Import your AWS data or connect to your Azure account to generate a network diagram of your architecture automatically. Learn more about data integrations.
Any shape in SmartDraw can be assigned a set of fields and values. These show in the data panel and in a tool tip on the shape itself.
This lets you or anyone you share your document with drill down into details about the information the shape represents without having to clutter the shape itself with the same information. Learn more.
Share your visuals with anyone, even if they don't own a copy of SmartDraw, with a link. You can also easily export any diagram as a PDF or common image types like PNG or SVG.
Work on the same diagram as a team and leave comments and feedback. Learn more.
SmartDraw's Site License lets you cover your entire organization for one, low, fixed price. This means you won't have to deal with constantly counting heads.
SmartDraw works hand in glove with all the apps you use and most file storage systems like OneDrive, SharePoint, and Google Drive. There is no need to set up a parallel set of permissions, SmartDraw can just save files directly into the existing system. Plus, SmartDraw supports SSO, which makes managing your users effortless.
SmartDraw meets all of the standards of security and reliability for an Enterprise application.
"It's so easy to use and has so many options to pick from. Even does some project Gantt style charting."
"The templates are complete enough to know which app to choose each time. It has an easy-to-use feel and intuitively knows what to do next. SmartDraw is a time saver compared to other programs I have used in the past. Plus, the customer service is the best I have ever engaged with."
"Ease of use, compatibility with Microsoft toolset"
See how SmartDraw can benefit your IT team today!