DIAGRAMMING
draw.io is open source and can run entirely offline or on your own infrastructure — sovereignty is not the difference here. The difference is the working model: draw.io produces diagram files you park in Drive, Confluence or Git; Polybase Boards are live shared canvases inside the workspace where your team already talks and plans.
Polybase Boards are infinite canvases that live inside your workspace channels. Several people edit at once with live cursors and presence; you can follow a presenter, discuss an element in the channel thread, and convert sticky notes into tracked Kanban tasks. Boards also import draw.io files, so existing diagrams come along. The canvas is part of the project, not a file attached to it.
draw.io (diagrams.net) is a free, open-source diagram editor with real depth: large shape libraries for flowcharts, UML, network and cloud architecture diagrams, Visio (VSDX) import, and offline editing in the browser. It is genuinely excellent at producing precise diagram files. The catch is the word 'files' — diagrams are saved to Drive, Confluence or a Git repo, edited mostly by one person at a time, and live apart from the conversations and work they describe.
Vergleichen Sie, wie Polybase und draw.io die tägliche Arbeit Ihres Teams unterstützen.
Basierend auf öffentlich verfügbaren Informationen zu draw.io, Stand August 2026. Produkte entwickeln sich weiter — Pläne und Funktionen können sich geändert haben; bitte prüfen Sie Details beim Anbieter. Etwas veraltet? Schreiben Sie uns an [email protected].
Eine praktische Reihenfolge, um den Wechsel zu planen, nützliche Inhalte zu übertragen und den neuen Workspace einzuführen.
Go through your draw.io files and split them in two: finished reference diagrams (architecture docs, network maps) and living canvases your team actually works on together (planning boards, system sketches under discussion). Only the second group benefits from moving.
Polybase Boards import draw.io files directly, so active diagrams don't need to be redrawn. Bring the living canvases into the channels where the related project work happens.
Create or use the Polybase channel for each project and open its board there. The diagram now sits beside the chat where it gets discussed, the tasks it produces, and the docs that explain it — instead of a link pasted into three different tools.
For design discussions and planning sessions, work on the board together: live cursors, presence, follow mode and a call in the same channel. Sticky notes from the session convert to tracked Kanban tasks in one click.
If parts of your team produce formal UML or network diagrams, they can keep using draw.io for that — Boards import the files whenever a diagram needs to move into a collaborative context. This is a workflow upgrade, not a forced replacement.
Zusätzliche Workspace-Funktionen, die Sie beim Vergleich von Polybase und draw.io berücksichtigen können.
draw.io is primarily built around one person editing a file. Polybase Boards are built for several people on the same canvas at once — live cursors, presence, and follow/'spotlight me' for guided walkthroughs.
A draw.io diagram is a file in Drive or Confluence; the discussion about it happens somewhere else. A Polybase board lives inside the channel, so the drawing and the conversation about it share one place.
Diagrams describe work; they don't track it. On a Polybase board, sticky notes and elements convert into Kanban tasks with assignees and due dates — the planning canvas feeds the actual plan.
File-based workflows often leave draw.io diagrams scattered across Drive folders, Confluence pages and Git repos, each with its own copy and its own staleness. Boards are part of the workspace: one canvas per project, versioned, found where the project lives.
Reviewing a diagram over a call usually means screen-sharing a static file. In Polybase, start the call in the channel and edit the board together while you talk — everyone can point, move and draw.
Fragen zum Wechsel von draw.io zu Polybase.
Miro ist ein eigenständiges Whiteboard. Polybase-Boards leben neben Chat, Aufgaben und Docs im selben Workspace.
Zum VergleichFigJam ist Figmas Whiteboard, nur US-Cloud. Polybase stellt Boards neben Chat, Aufgaben und Docs — self-hostbar.
Zum VergleichWorkshop-Whiteboards im Team-Workspace — Retro-Boards neben Chat, Aufgaben und Docs, mit EU-Cloud oder Self-Hosting.
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