83% of developers in the financial sector, electronics manufacturing, and cybersecurity in Russia continue to use Microsoft Visio for creating charts and flowcharts. Here are the details.
The reason is that companies are unwilling to invest in retraining employees and purchasing domestic alternatives, so they often use illegal copies of the software, industry experts note.
They warn that the use of unlicensed software carries risks such as data loss and system failures.
How Many Companies Use Microsoft Visio
As of the end of November 2024, over 500,000 Russian users out of a total of 600,000 still work with Microsoft Visio. Before 2022, all 600,000 primarily used this software, mainly in industries such as the fuel and energy sector and the banking sector.
Microsoft Visio is a vector graphics editor for diagrams and charts running on Windows. The program allows you to structure information, analyze data, and optimize business processes. It is offered in three versions: Standard, Professional, and Pro for Office 365.
It is important to understand that companies using flowchart editors mainly operate in industries where import substitution is strictly phased: first, they change the equipment fleet and assemble the architecture, including the information security block, and only then start migrating to new software
Dmitry Vorobyov, Director of Information Technology at "SKB Kontur", points to the difficulties associated with retraining employees and the significant costs of domestic products as the main reasons hindering the transition.
Russian Analogues of the Program
Currently, there are Russian analogues to Visio, such as the free program DIA, notes Alexey Smirnov, Director of "Basalt SPO". He emphasizes that, although these analogues may not have all the functionality of the American software, many users do not need it. In the current realities, companies often resort to gray markets or illegal versions of the software.
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