Microsoft Visio Pro Professional 2016 Key Global makes it easy for teams to work together, with new collaboration capabilities that allow multiple team members to work on a single diagram at the same time, without having to worry about version conflicts. Visio Professional 2016 also has a variety of new and updated shapes, an improved ability to change the look of your diagrams and shapes.

Visio Professional 2016 has additional templates for more advanced diagrams and layouts, as well as capabilities intended to make it easy for users to connect their diagrams to data sources and to display their data graphically. The Professional edition features three additional diagram types, as well as intelligent rules, validation, and subprocess (diagram breakdown). Visio Professional is also offered as an additional component of an Office365 subscription.

On 22 September 2015, Visio 2016 was released alongside Microsoft Office 2016. A few new features have been added such as one-step connectivity with Excel data, information rights management (IRM) protection for Visio files, modernized shapes for office layout, detailed shapes for site plans, updated shapes for floor plans, modern shapes for home plans, IEEE compliant shapes for electrical diagrams, new range of starter diagrams, and new themes for the Visio interface.

Database modeling in Visio revolves around a Database Model Diagram (DMD).