"I've been showing it to people and they were more than excited-they were positively giddy!" says John Mordal, a Vivien user who recently demonstrated the latest in Vivien at The Event for Planners and Suppliers Expo in Minnesota. "I believe that the success of this product depends on how easy it is for the lay person to get up and running quickly, and Vivien 1.2 does it," he says.
The Vivien team gave tools like the Missing Coordinate and Shaded View more user-friendly names like Height and Virtual View. "We've listened to feedback from our users and have delivered it - a simple product that event planners and designers can start using with little or no training. It designs their events from beginning to end," says Josh Koffman, Vivien product manager at Cast Software.
Vivien 1.2 also includes powerful new features aimed at giving event planners and designers the competitive edge. With the new Import Floorplan feature, Users can easily import their client's floorplans into the program and then set the correct scale so their event designs are always accurate. No more nasty surprises when they arrive at the venue to find that all the tables don't fit!
Other innovative features in this release include a new Projection Wizard that lets planners choose from a number of screens and projectors, the ability to save their event layouts in multiple formats and then distribute them easily by e-mail or hard copy, and performance enhancements that greatly improve the speed of the program.
Vivien is specifically designed for event, meeting, design and production professionals who want to become more professional, more productive, and more profitable. Vivien won the 2005 EIBTM Worldwide Technology Watch and the 2005 BiZBash Top 10 Best of Show awards.
Vivien was created by CAST Software, a company that for the past 12 years has provided state-of-the-art, easy-to-use design software to the event and entertainment sectors.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
