Post-Olympic
hi-tech for Victoria Software Company
December
5, 2000
Victoria, BC – While sports fans around the world have returned
to their day-to-day existence after the most successful Olympic and
Paralympic Games ever, one hi-tech company is still on a post-Olympic
high and business is better than ever.
Viewpoint Technologies Ltd., a Victoria-based company whose innovative
software simplified the exhausting job of managing the equipment and
materials required to deliver both the 2000 Sydney Olympic and
Paralympic Games, is on to new challenges after a successful run down
under.
“Viewpoint was very proud to be part of the Best Games ever,” said
Rob McMicking, Vice President of Technology. “We started with the
Sydney organizing committee this time last year, and they’re still
using our software to sort out the disposal of thousands of items used
during the Games.”
And while the organizing committee officially closes its doors on
December 15,2000, interested sports fans can still check out the goods
for sale through an Internet auction at www.ebay.com.au. Dubbed the
“Remains of the Games”, items for sale run from a customized Torch
Relay Harley Davidson to medal podiums.
“We keep hearing that our Games were the best ever, and it’s because
of companies like Viewpoint Technologies that we were,” says Brenda
Perreaux, Logistics Manager for the Sydney organizing committee. “They
have taken the task of managing the logistics of the Games to another
level, and I’m confident that their other software programs will do
the same for the registration process and the financial planning of
events like the Olympics. “
While the Viewpoint team was overseeing its viewLOGISTICS software in
Sydney, it was developing new business networks for the company’s
other programs, “viewPLAN”, designed to plan and manage the costs,
scope and staffing associated with delivering a major project, and
viewTEAM”, designed to manage the recruitment and assigning of
volunteers and the accreditation of all participants for a major
project.
“When Sydney organizers saw our software working at the 1999 Pan
American Games in Winnipeg, they knew they had to have it for their
Games,” says McMicking. “That’s the type of networking we were
doing in Sydney, talking to organizers for upcoming multi-sport events
and to potential bid groups. And now we’ve got some contracts
pending.”
While Viewpoint Technologies is leading the development of custom
software solutions for international events, the team is not resting on
its Olympic laurels. Both viewPLAN and viewLOGISTICS programs are
operational in the offices of the 2001 World Athletics Championships in
Edmonton, and as they continue to enhance their programs, they also
continue to seek potential clients from multi-sport events at the
regional to international levels, and non-sporting events, such as
conference planners.
For more information see www.ViewpointTech.com
or contact:
Rob McMicking, VP Information Technology, Garnet Nelson, Marketing
(250) 370-9142, email: Rob@ViewpointTech.com
Joanna Fox, Media Relations (250) 595-1955, cell (250) 882-5426, email: joannafox@telus.net
