Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard tool founded in 2011 by Andrey Khusid and Oleg Shardin. It was originally named RealtimeBoard and was renamed Miro in 2019. It provides a space for real - time creative brainstorming and cross - departmental collaboration for teams, enabling efficient communication and continuous innovation from brainstorming to project planning.
Main Features
- Flexible Infinite Canvas: Provide an infinitely expandable creative space for teams, allowing easy addition of multimedia content such as text, images, and flowcharts to meet various visualization needs. Teams can freely create and express on the canvas without space limitations.
- Real - time Collaborative Editing: Team members can synchronously annotate, draw, and edit online, ensuring instant information dissemination and significantly improving decision - making and creative thinking efficiency. For example, in a brainstorming meeting, members can simultaneously add ideas and opinions on the canvas.
- Rich Template and Tool Set: It has a diverse set of preset templates and practical tools, meeting diverse needs from brainstorming, process design to project management, and quickly building efficient work processes. Users can select appropriate templates according to different needs, saving time and effort.
- Cross - platform and Third - party Application Integration: Easily integrate with mainstream collaborative tools such as Slack, Jira, and Asana to achieve seamless data synchronization and optimize team communication and information flow. For example, after integrating with Jira, tasks in Miro can be synchronized to Jira for management.
- Efficient Remote Meetings and Presentations: Support remote meeting modes and instant sharing, enabling distributed teams to discuss and conceive on the same interface, improving the clarity and participation of remote collaboration. In a remote work scenario, teams can conduct efficient meetings and collaborations through Miro.
- Enterprise - level Security and Compliance: Adopt a rigorous data encryption and permission management mechanism that complies with international security standards, fully protecting enterprise data and intellectual property. Enterprise users can use Miro to manage important projects and data with confidence.
Application Scenarios
- Creative Teams: Such as design teams and advertising teams, suitable for brainstorming and creative design work. Designers can jointly create and discuss design plans on Miro.
- Project Management Teams: Used for project planning and progress tracking. Teams can create project flowcharts on Miro to clarify the responsible persons and time nodes of each task.
- Cross - departmental Collaboration Teams: Promote communication and collaboration between different departments and break down information barriers. For example, the marketing and R & D departments can jointly formulate product promotion plans on Miro.