draw.io at Team 22 Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada USA

From the city renowned for world-class entertainment and high-energy presentations, Atlassian presented Teams 22 at the Venetian convention center.
It’s a place where innovators, free thinkers, and software Jedi gather to promote their latest products, and draw.io was no exception.

The anticipation was palpable in the atmosphere as ITSM, Dev Ops, and Agile work teams gathered to showcase new products and exchange ideas.
It was great to meet in the flesh again for many attendees, fists were bumped, and careful covid hugs were given.

Attendees were hungry for new tools and innovations.

We hit the ground running hard, officially launching perhaps one of the show’s biggest surprises,

You know we live for diagramming, but as the term Agile implies, we move both as we see the industry evolving. As our customers require, we have a healthy, energetic international community we interact with on our Git Hub repository. This feature had been requested many times, so now it was time to deliver, and boy did we deliver.

Our new killer feature

But even we were surprised at the reaction of our existing customers and potential new clients as we demoed draw.io new killer feature.

News had already spread about our other recently launched feature, whiteboarding, and many visited our stand for a demo. They were very impressed, but they stood in stunned silence when we introduced the new live collaboration feature.

As draw.io users and users of other visualization software crowded our booth, It almost became a Monty Python sketch.

Booth Visitor – This is in Confluence right
Me – Yes
Visitor– And the collaboration, it’s live, right
Me – yes
Visitor – How much does it cost?
Me – No additional charges, its a part of draw.io
Visitor – And it’s in Confluence, right!
Me – Yes
Visitor – And your sure Its definitely running in Confluence, and its live collaboration
Me – Yes
Visitor – How much is it again, it’s free, are you sure it’s free…etc.?

There then followed a period of silence and contemplation, followed by, Visitor – “How easy is it to import Gliffy diagrams into draw.io.”
Me “it’s effortless, it is one button to click on”

See for yourself how we stack up against Gliffy.

From Space X to the US Navy, Wells Fargo to the Discovery channel, we had some high-powered heavy hitters inquiring about draw.io’s new features. Still, we also had inquiries from young, hungry startups curious about what draw.io could do for them.

A changing workplace

It is no big secret the pandemic has caused a seismic rift in how we live, never mind how we work.
The kitchen is the new board room via Google meet/Zoom, and the dev tools we use have had to adapt to the new normal.

But this new powerful tool in draw.io takes communicating as a team to a new level.

draw.io recent new feature was the whiteboard, and it has proved to be incredibly successful and popular. Still, we felt we could do more, that something special that could really unleash a team’s potential and bring back the energy of the live meeting.

So at Team 22, we revealed its next evolution.

The unofficial launch at the pre-show special event

We presented to our partners and selected VIPs before the main show in a packed convention suite. Bastian Schmitt (draw.io´s brand ambassador) started demoing the recently added whiteboard feature, but something was somehow different. The audience watched as Bastain went through the whiteboard demo but then, at a pre-planned stage in his presentation, Colin Heike, our US representative, and I both sitting in the audience joined Bastains presentation onscreen online.

Our cursors appeared on Bastains whiteboard, puzzled looks were exchanged, eyebrows were raised, and questions flowed as the audience realized other users were diagramming on the board. The board had come alive with different contributors, all editing and contributing simultaneously.

Instant collaboration, no delays, no workarounds, just effortless communication.

We underestimated the audience response. Here now was the super feature that cemented draw.io’s reputation as the number one diagramming application.

Multiple users, multiple possibilities

All the strengths and features you love from the draw.io app, the Security, the Use Cases, ease of use, and workflow now with live real-time secure collaboration, not forgetting our class-leading pricing.

This new feature drew nothing but praise but existing users and many demo requests from curious potential new users.

Our job is to make your job easier

We understand you may wish to learn more about draw.io that why we offer free demo sessions. Diagramming is our area of expertise, but we know it may not be yours, so there are no silly or stupid questions.
We want to make sure you or maybe members of your company who are considering moving from another diagramming app are happy. Demos can be one-on-one or in a group and last from a few minutes to a few hours. You decide, oh, you can have as many demos are you want.
To book a free demo, use the link below. We would love to meet you.

Book a demo here

Time to say Goodbye

As the show drew to a close we held our prize draw, everyone who attended our booth and was scanned was entered into our free draw to win an Apple watch, one delighted attendee later who had entered the draw from draw.io (see what we did there).

Finally

It’s no secret that most freebies or swag given out at trade shows end up in landfills in a few weeks.
We wanted to do something different and meaningful. So we decided to take our budget, usually allocated to free stuff, and distribute it between three charities. You, the visitor to our booth, would choose which charity. We thought it was a great idea, and apparently, so did you.

In fact, the idea was so well received that our senior management decided to double the donation, a spur-of-the-moment decision given the positive vibes we were getting.
By agreeing to have a photograph taken with the charity card of your choice, we donated on your behalf.

The three worthy causes were:

Girls who code
Doctors without borders: Médecins Sans Frontières
OroVerde

So to everyone who visited our stand and had a picture taken, you know you have made a difference to someone somewhere.

To explore strange new worlds

To seek out new use cases and new diagram shapes.
To boldly diagram where no visualization app has gone before.

April who is a huge Sci-Fi fan at our booth choosing her charity

So to every single one of you

We had fun and made many new friends, the pleasure was all ours, and once again, we thank every single one of you who participated in the charitable donation. Someone somewhere will benefit from your participation.

Photomontage showing just some of those who took part

A video review

Our team gathered some thoughts and feedback from Atlassian users on the show’s last day.

However, not everyone was happy

We seem to have impressed everyone, well, not quite everyone. Our competitors seemed to be thoroughly unimpressed. I guess you can´t please everyone.

Keen to learn more

Visit our YouTube Channel for a constantly updated playlist of how-to videos.
Visit our one-stop tutorial shop to pick up all the ins and outs of draw.io diagramming.
Or book a free no-obligation demo to learn more about the limitless ways in which draw.io can make life easier and more productive for you and everyone in (and outside) your company!
Happy diagramming!