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Visio is a diagraming tool that makes it easy and intuitive to create flowcharts, diagrams, org charts, floor plans, engineering designs, and more by using modern templates with the familiar Office experience. On this page, you can access some of the top templates and sample diagrams available in Visio, or request ones that you want.

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General

Flowchart

Network

Floor plans

Software and database   Azure | AWS

Schedule

Business

Engineering

General

Computer block diagram

A block diagram template for a block diagram of a computer.

Property buying flow

A flowchart diagram that details the steps for buying a property.

Flowcharts

Basic flowchart

A vertical flowchart best used for top-down processes or systems that involve hierarchies, or have many component processes.

Cross-functional flowchart

A cross-functional flowchart best used for a process that includes tasks shared across roles or functions.

BPMN cross-functional chart

Show the relationship between a process and the organizational or functional units in a HR Process flow. This is a Level 2 BPMN Workflow.

Networks

Basic home network

Best used to design a home network with wired and wireless devices in different rooms.

Office network plan

A basic network template for a small office or team's network diagram.

Star network diagram

A detailed network topology for a star network diagram.

Detailed network

A detailed network diagram best used to show a corporate network for a medium-sized enterprise.

Ethernet LAN diagram

Create detailed physical, logical, and network architecture diagrams using a comprehensive set of network and computer equipment shapes.

Floor plans

Floor plan

Use this template to create detailed and accurate floor and building plans.

Social-distancing floor plan, U.S.

Floor plan with social distancing features (U.S.)

Social-distancing floor plan, Metric

Floor plan with social distancing features (Metric)

Software and database

SDLC waterfall process

A process diagram for a waterfall process model of a software development life cycle.

UML class with interface

UML class diagram best used to show a system in which a class has composition and aggregation relationships

Basic UML sequence

A basic UML sequence diagram best used to show how parts of a simple system interact with each other

Basic UML use case

A basic UML use case diagram best used to show a user's interactions with events and processes.

Basic UML communication

UML communication diagram that shows the interactions between lifelines that use sequenced messages.

Basic UML component

UML component diagram to show components, ports, interfaces and the relationships between them

Login-registry activity

Use this UML diagram to show login-registry activity.

Basic UML deployment

Use this diagram to show the architecture of a software deployment.

UML state: ATM

Use this diagram to design a state diagram that shows how an automated teller machine responds to a user.

UML database for employees

Use this diagram to design an employee database for an organization.

Bank Account database

Chen's database diagram of a bank account

Azure

Jenkins Server on Azure

Jenkins Server on Azure

On-prem AD domains with Azure AD

Integrating On-premises Active Directory domains with Azure AD

Dev-Test deployment for PaaS

A dev-test deployment for testing PaaS solutions

AWS

Chef Automate Architecture on AWS

AWS template: Chef Automate Architecture

Git to S3 Webhooks

AWS template: Git to S3 Webhooks

SAP

AWS template: SAP using SIOS

Schedules

Expanded block timeline

Best used to track milestones, events, tasks, and phases over a period of time. Also used to create Product Roadmaps.

Business

Organizational chart

Organizational chart best used to show hierarchy levels and reporting relationships, in an attractive, modern format.

Hierarchical organization chart

Create an organization chart with a multi-level hierarchy. Try different layouts that fit your diagram into a printable space.

Basic auditing

A basic auditing diagram best used for a simple process that must satisfy a decision point to complete.

Credit approval process

A cross-functional flowchart for a credit approval process.

HR Management System

Crow's foot diagram of a Human Resources management system.

Inventory management

Crow's foot diagram of an Inventory management system.

Construction management

Chen's diagram of a Construction management organization.

Theater booking process

This flowchart template shows the steps for purchasing theater tickets from an online service and how different actions affect the user's Web experience.

Marketing mix

A diagram template that can be used to create marketing strategies that influence customers to purchase a company's products.

Engineering

Basic electrical

A basic engineering electrical diagram best used to draw an electronic circuit that can include semiconductor devices.

SDL game process

A Specification and Description Language diagram template for an SDL game process.

See Also

Display languages supported in the Visio desktop app

This page lists all the templates and sample diagrams available with Visio in Microsoft 365. For each category, there is a button you can click that opens the template or sample with its stencils and shapes—right in Visio so that you can get started trying it out.

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Basic diagrams

Block diagrams

Business Matrix diagrams

Cycle diagrams

Flowcharts

Process diagrams

Pyramid diagrams

Venn diagrams

Basic diagrams

Basic Diagram Template

Contains basic geometric shapes, arrow shapes, decorative and graph shapes for making a general diagram.

Financial Ratios

Looks at five elements: liquidity, working capital, asset usage, efficiency, and profitability ratios.

Hub and Spoke Model

Illustrates the distribution model based on a hub with supporting regional distribution nodes. 

Marketing Mix

Illustrates multiple aspects of a marketing program centered on the target market. 

Product Development

Illustrates a five-phase model of development: strategy, design, development, testing, and support.

Sales Funnel

Funnel diagram illustrated with icons and callouts.

Recruitment Process

Illustrates four steps in an organization's recruitment process for a job opening.

PESTLE Analysis

Analyze a business or an industry on six factors: political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental.

Business Model Canvas

Map out the nine major components of your business. This canvas gives a bird’s eye view of your entire business and is useful for strategizing. 

5 Why's, diagram 1

"Five why's analysis" is an iterative technique for root-cause analysis. 

4 P's Marketing Mix

Convey a marketing strategy by identifying four essential factors that are necessary for marketing the good or service.

Value Chain

Visualize all activities that a company undertakes to deliver a good or service to market.

Strategy Diamond

Concisely illustrates an organization’s overall strategy, highlighting five key components. It can be used as a checklist for a healthy strategy.

Porter's Five Forces, diagram 1

Analyze an industry’s attractiveness, or evaluate a company’s competitive environment.

Porter's Five Forces, diagram 2

Analyze an industry’s attractiveness or evaluate a company’s competitive environment.

5 Why's, diagram 2

"Five why's analysis" is an iterative technique for root-cause analysis. 

5 Why's, diagram 3

"Five why's analysis" is an iterative technique for root-cause analysis. 

5 Why's, diagram 4

"Five why's analysis" is an iterative technique for root-cause analysis. 

Block diagrams

Block Diagram Template

Contains 2-D and 3-D shapes and directional lines for feedback loops and annotated functional decomposition, data structure, hierarchical, signal flow, and data flow block diagrams.

Block Diagram of a Computer

This diagram can be used to illustrate elements of a computer system.

Content Marketing Strategy Block Diagram

Manage your content through multiple stages.

Integrated Marketing Strategy Block Diagram

Helps align and coordinate marketing channels and assets in a coherent strategy.

IOT Security Architecture Block

Layers of security analysis.

Porter's Analysis Block Diagram

Identifies an industry's structure to determine a corporate strategy.

Flow of a Research Paper 

Blocks and connectors show the process of writing a research paper.

Periodic Table

Color-coded 3D blocks represent elements from the modern periodic table.

Sci-Fi Periodic Table

Color-coded 3D blocks represent elements from the modern periodic table.

Windows NT Architecture

Illustrates all layers in the Windows NT architecture.

Business Matrix

Business Matrix Template

Contains business matrix diagrams that shows relationships between concepts across two or more dimensions. Create 2x2, 3x3 matrix, SWOT analysis, Ansoff matrix, BCG matrix, position maps, Quadrant analysis diagrams, or illustrate concepts across axes.

BCG Matrix

Contains a growth-share matrix to help an organization analyze its business units. Also known as "product portfolio matrix".

Ansoff Matrix

Contains a marketing planning tool which usually aids a business in determining its product and market growth. 

SWOT 1 Analysis

One of four sample diagrams that allows a business to undertake an analysis to identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.

SWOT 2 Analysis

The second of four sample diagrams that allows a business to undertake an analysis to identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.

SWOT 3 Analysis

The third of four sample diagrams that allows a business to undertake an analysis to identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.

SWOT 4 Analysis

The fourth of four sample diagrams that allows a business to undertake an analysis to identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.

Cycle diagrams

Cycle Diagram Template

Represents a sequence of stages, tasks, or events in a circular flow. Contains circular, radial, target, circular segments, pie segments, loops and other cyclic diagram shapes.

Product Lifecycle

Covers four stages in the product life cycle: introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

Deming Cycle

The Deming Cycle is a model for continuous improvement of quality in four stages.

Water Cycle Concept Map

Shows the continuous circulation of water in the Earth-atmosphere system.

Plan, Do, Check, Act

An interactive problem-solving strategy for improving processes and implementing change.

Customer Lifecycle

Illustrates the stages of customer lifecycle management.

Business Account Management

Illustrates eight key elements of a business account.

Digital Media: getting customers

Stages of customer acquisition—from communication to conversion.

Flowcharts

Flowchart Template

Create flowcharts, top-down diagrams, information tracking diagrams, process planning diagrams, and structure prediction diagrams. Contains connectors and links.

Purchase Order

Demonstrates a purchase-order flow for a product.

Medical Patient Process

Flowchart illustrating the process of admitting a person for medical care. 

Environmental Clearance Flowchart

Flowchart illustrating the evaluation process for mitigating an environmental issue. 

Theater Booking Process

This flowchart template shows the steps for purchasing theater tickets from an online service and how different actions affect the user's Web experience.

Property Buying Flowchart

A flowchart diagram that details the steps for buying a property.

Vertical Flowchart

Basic flowchart oriented vertically. 

Human Resources Management Process

Full process for seeking job candidates (internal and external) for an open position.

Customer Support

Illustrates the workflow for a customer support team working to solve a customer problem.

Audit Process flowchart

Demonstrates an end-to-end audit-process flow.

Candidate Background Check

Describes the entire process of performing background checks for job candidates.

Hardware and Software Development

Describes the flow of the hardware or software development process.

Inspect Materials flowchart

Shows how material inspection process flows.

Medical Assistance flowchart

Describes the process of getting medical assistance in a hospital.

Teaching Structure Flowchart

Demonstrates a flowchart for scheduling a teacher's class schedule.

Sales Quote diagram

Flowchart that describes the sales quote process.

Business-to-Business Sales

Flowchart showing the process of pitching an idea to a client in business-to-business sales.

Online Shopping Process

Flowchart shapes and connectors show the process of ordering a product on an e-commerce website.

Software Design Algorithm

Flowchart shapes and connectors demonstrating how to prototype a software project.

Accident Scene Assessment

Flowchart demonstrating the steps in assessing an accident scene.

Project Finance Management

Flowchart showing the process of managing the finances of a project.

Process diagrams

Process Steps Template

Shapes for illustrating the steps in any sequential process. 

SDLC Waterfall Process

The waterfall model illustrates the software development process in a linear sequential flow.

Tuckman's Model

The Tuckman model is an approach to team development that helps develop strategies to move toward its goals.

Five-Step Decision Making Process

Illustration of fundamental steps in the decision-making process.

Organizational Communication Plan

Covers aspects of a communication plan: audience, type of message, delivery method, schedule, and spokesperson.

Job Application Process

Process diagram illustrating the steps for a job applicant and hiring process.

Jersey-making Process

Process diagram that shows how a sports jersey is made, in 8 steps.

Let's Bake a Cake

Shows the process of baking a cake, including the ingredients and various stages of mixing, baking, and decoration—illustrated as a cake.

Cardio and Core Workout

Covers a 30-minutes workout set of cardio and core exercises.

Pizza Delivery Process 

Shows the delivery process from the store to the customer—illustrated in the shape of a pizza.

Patient Care Process

Shows the process involved in patient care, from diagnosis to post-surgery evaluation.

Milestones to home ownership 

Shows the steps and milestones involved in buying a house with a home loan.

Pyramid diagrams

Pyramid Diagram Template

Pyramid diagrams use triangular, pyramidal or conical shapes to show proportional, interconnected, hierarchical relationships.

Marketing Strategy Diagram

A sample pyramid diagram that represents aspects of a business marketing strategy. 

Funnel Diagram

Funnel diagrams can be used to represent different stages of a process and to identify potential problem areas.

Hierarchy of Needs Diagram

A sample pyramid diagram that represents Maslow's hierarchy of needs. 

Website Visitor Trend

An example of a pyramid diagram. This one shows data about categories of visitors to a web site. 

Segmented Pyramid

A segmented pyramid diagram can show proportional, interconnected or containment relationships.

Stepped Pyramid Diagram

Pyramid diagrams can be used to present a step-by-step progression or to break down the structure of something into meaningful parts.

Venn diagrams

Venn Diagram Template

Venn diagrams use overlapping shapes to depict possible logical relationships between two or more sets. Organize information, show associations, similarities, unions, intersections, differences, containments, complements across logical sets.

What is Data Science?

Venn diagram describing data science as an intersection of technology, statistics, and business.

Desirability Feasibility Viability

This framework attempts to balance what is desirable from a customer point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable.

People, Process, and Technology

Illustrates three elements of organizational transformation.

The disciplines of User Experience design

Illustrates the inter-relationships of the many elements of user experience design.

Brand Effectiveness diagram

Five factors for measuring brand effectiveness.

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