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Viamente launches Self-Provisioning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for Routing Optimization.
Small and Medium Fleets are served. Viamente, the easiest Fleet Route Planner ever, brings to the Routing Optimization industry the same disruptive innovation that has revolutionized CRM: Self-Provisioning SaaS.
Historically, small and medium businesses rarely adopted Routing Optimization tools because of excessive complexity and inaccessible prices. Thanks to the technological revolution of Location Intelligence, Viamente fills the gap with an intuitive and self learning tool designed to help small Fleets grow.
Multiple addresses in complex road networks, limited and expensive resources, demanding customers and time constraints call for a Routing Optimization solution which must be not only smart and efficient, but quick and easy to set up.
With the full-featured Free Trial and the simplified Pay-As-You-Go model launched today, Viamente meets this previously unmet demand by removing the barrier of upfront investment. Mobile Enterprises can now experience the creation of better Mobile Workforce utilization and Logistics Efficiency from the very first moment they access the Viamente Route Planner.
Field Service Team Leaders and Transport Fleet Managers gain the opportunity to implement Smart Dispatching in minutes: with just a few clicks, Work Orders are assigned automatically to Drivers and Technicians, in compliance with all logistic constraints and customers’ expectations. The optimized Route Plans can be sent directly to GPS devices and Smartphones and result in better Service Level and lower Operating Expenditures.
Riccardo Bocci | January 9, 2012
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Less is More: the Simplified Interface of the Viamente Route Planner Empowers Multi-vehicle Dispatching and Fleet Optimization
The Viamente Route Planner, the first and only Self-Provisioning Software as a Service (SaaS) for Fleet Routing and Optimization, is coming out with a new release today which, among several other improvements, introduces two radical upgrades aimed at providing full control over Fleet Management operations.
Through constant dialogue with its community of users, from Field Services Team Leaders to Transport Fleet Managers, Viamente has designed and launched a brand new User Interface for an even leaner management of the Route Optimization process.
The first remarkable improvement is the Timeline visualization which allows a more intuitive and complete understanding of a Fleet’s overall Workload and organization. Complex information has been made simple to access and with one single comprehensive glance it’s possible to be on top of vehicles’ Routes, Load Capacity and drivers’ Workload distribution. The Timeline also shows graphically the Service Times for each stop and the layout makes modifications easy and quick.
The second major new aspect is in fact a new way to modify Route Plans. The Viamente Route Planning software delivers optimal stop sequences, but sometimes it may be necessary to adjust them to some customer’s particular needs. An easier Drag & Drop function has been introduced and it is now possible to Drag & Drop Orders from one Driver to another or within the same Driver’s schedule.
Moreover, it is possible to verify immediately the impact of these modifications on the Fleet’s Workload through a comparison with the Route Plan originally suggested. At the same time, possible violations of constraints concerning Drivers (e.g. Load Capacity) or Orders (e.g Time Windows) are highlighted and brought to attention.
“We aim at making our customers’ life easy and at boosting their profits” says Antonio Perini, CEO at Viamente. He then continues: “For us, giving optimal solutions and offering a great decision-support system is not enough: we want to move towards a real Computer-Aided Planning tool which permits users to keep all variables under control. In order to provide spot-on solutions to our customers, we ask them directly which features we should implement. That’s why together with the new User Interface we’re launching a Knowledge Base portal designed to grant easy access to information about the Route Planner and to stimulate exchange among users. The first useful tips have already started arriving through our Community Questions and have been brought to the attention of our Product Management team.”
Riccardo Bocci | November 7, 2011
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Import unlimited Addresses, Build unlimited Routes!
We are glad to introduce the most requested feature for the Viamente Route Planner:
Monthly and Annual Flat Fees!
Effective this week, you can subscribe to a monthly or an annual plan and just forget about the number of addresses or routes you can optimize… so you can focus on making your business efficient rather than worry about complex costs.
The new pricing model is much simpler, just select:
- The total number of Vehicles in your Fleet
- The maximum size of your Route Plans
The size of a Route Plan is the total number of Stops you intend to visit with a group of Vehicles selected from your Fleet. It does not depend on the size of that group.
You can Upgrade, Downgrade or Unsubscribe at any time.
How to switch to the new Pricing
Free Users: after accessing your account, click on Upgrade and choose the total number of Vehicles in your Fleet and the maximum size of the Route Plans you intend to build.
Premium Users: after accessing your account, click on Account and you will see the announcement and instructions on how to switch to the new pricing model. If you prefer, you can continue buying Credits Packages until September 1st 2011, when we will be discontinuing the Credits model for all users.
Antonio Perini | May 26, 2011
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The Viamente Route Planner now embeds a Route Editor to fine-tune the optimized routes to your real-world scenarios.
Rolled out today is a new version of the Viamente Route Planner that includes a drag-and-drop Route Editor to intuitively modify the optimized Stop Sequences while keeping the possible constraint violations and the expected Times of Arrival under control.
As you know, efficient management of the Mobile Workforce is a complex analytical problem, especially when the service has to reach a high number of addresses or to comply with various logistic constraints like Time Windows or a limited Load Capacity.
Like you, thousands of Managers and Business owners in the Transport and Field Service Industries have already learnt how to best take advantage of the Viamente Route Planner to solve these complex problems: a handful of seconds and right on the Web, the most efficient Route Plans are built while Driving Times and other logistic constraints are automatically taken into consideration. The Optimized Route Plans are then displayed on Google Maps® and Routes and Schedules are shared with Drivers’ Smartphones in one click.
The Optimized Routes are designed to maximize the overall Fleet Efficiency. However, Viamente knows that you still want to be able to modify them. For instance, you may want to consider new details or to simply adjust them better to your real-world scenarios. In this case, it is important to visualize how any modification is going to impact the total Working Time and to verify if any constraints like Time Windows or Vehicle Load Capacity may happen to have been violated. Besides, since any changes are likely to impact the estimated Time of Arrival at several Locations, the entire Schedule should be revised.
Good News! Starting today, the Route Editor is part of your Viamente Route Planner account: you can freely modify your Routes with simple drag-and-drop on the Stop Sequences and the system will reflect these changes in real time by re-computing the Driving Times, the Times of Arrival and analyzing any potential Constraint Violations.
So, with the new Route Editor, you can tailor the Routes to your real needs and safely review any changes before deploying them.
Antonio Perini | March 11, 2011
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Is your Business growing? Keep you Service Level under control!
Dear Users,
as you know the Viamente Route Planner is the ideal tool to build Route Plans that maximize the level and the efficiency of your Transport or Field Service: it helps to put your resources to best use while providing top services and complying with all the Logistics Constraints, so that your Customers are happier and you can remarkably save on Operational and Capital Expenditures.
As your Business grows, however, your optimally-utilized Fleet will start getting closer and closer to Saturation… sooner or later your Resources will turn out being insufficient to serve all the Locations of your Route Plans. If you have ever experienced a Resource Saturation, you already know that the Viamente Route Planner automatically tunes the Route Plans to make sure that the number of unserved Locations is the very minimum. Until today, this was the only principle behind Resource Saturation and you were not allowed to force the service for an important customer if this implied as a result a higher number of unserved Locations in the overall plan.
Today, we are happy to announce that during the weekend we rolled out a new Viamente Route Planner version where you can set the Importance of any Location. This way, in case of Saturation, unserved Locations will be chosen only among lower importance ones, while higher importance Locations will be served in any case.
To take advantage of this new feature, just double-click on a Location and tune its new Importance slider or update your import Excel File Format by adding an “Importance” column, as explained under the Field Description tab of our Help Center.
Happy Planning with Viamente!!
Antonio Perini
Antonio Perini | December 10, 2010
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Viamente Route Planner 2.0: now it’s easy to Build Optimal Routes for Your Drivers.
Rolled out Today is Viamente Route Planner 2.0, the Latest Version of the Web-based Routing and Scheduling Optimization Software, now With Unlimited Optimization and with the Option to Save Route Plans Online.
Every day, Fleet and Team Managers face the complex challenge of planning routes for their vehicles and technicians with multiple goals: maximizing the number of served locations, minimizing resource consumption (number of vehicles, fuel, working time, etc) and complying with multiple logistical constraints, customer wishes and unexpected last-minute changes.
The good news is that Viamente Route Planner optimally solves these challenges and is also easy, fast and affordable. With an intuitive web-based interface which integrates Google Maps™, Viamente meets the needs of Small and Medium Businesses: it requires no training, no investment decisions, no expensive maintenance fees and infrastructure requirements: simply type http://www.viamente.com into your browser, import your addresses on the map and run the optimization to visualize the most efficient Route Plan.
Based on a pay-as-you-go model, users can refill their accounts at any time by purchasing small packages via credit card or signing up for a monthly subscription. Viamente Route Planner can be tried free with up to 4 Vehicles and 24 Locations.
“The newly released version brings significant improvements,” says Sergio Nalin, CTO of Viamente. “First of all, the enhanced user interface is more immediate and intuitive to use. Furthermore, the optimized Route Plans can now be saved online, ready to be retrieved and modified at any time. Also, a brand new business model now supports unlimited optimizations to let users adapt to variations in constraints and locations and to optimize as many times as necessary to fine-tune their routes to their needs. Finally, the VRP has been equipped with a traffic slider to ensure that the schedules are adaptable and as reliable as possible before any real-world decision is made.”
“We’re excited to announce the release of Viamente Route Planner 2.0 (VRP),” adds Antonio Perini, Business Manager of Viamente, “as it implements many of the most requested features. The option to save the Route Plans online, for instance, is a key factor for those businesses and individuals who go over the same routes every day or week and require to introduce only small variations over time: now it is possible to simply add or remove Locations and adapt the Route Plan to any varying conditions.”
Antonio Perini | July 12, 2010
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Viamente Route Planner. Now you can do your Route Planning in under a minute – on the Web.
Launching today is Viamente Route Planner, the new web application that solves route-planning problems for the Small and Medium Business.
Enterprises and Individuals involved in transport or territory services know all too well how time consuming the efficient allocation of workload and resources can be on a daily basis.
A common sense approach is creating geographical sections for each route and identifying opportunities for improving efficiency, only to be faced with conflicting time slots, incompatible driving and service times, insufficient load capacity or unreliable schedules. When it is time for action, the doubt arises: could there be any better solutions?
The Viamente Route Planner makes the route planning process immediate, unambiguous and efficient. All that is needed is to import addresses and constraints. With a single click, the optimal routes become visible on the maps thanks to integration with Google Maps™.
A flexible tool created to meet the diverse mobility needs, the Viamente Route Planner is designed to optimize routes for one or more vehicles in complex scenarios: multiple locations, multiple starting and end points, limited load capacity, time slots, different service times, compatibility issues.
Besides, a robust geocoding process allows for maximum ease of data upload (Excel sheets for example).
Based upon a pay-as-you-go model, the Viamente Route Planner requires no installation and no maintenance or updates. It can be tried free here.
“Access to GIS planning and optimization tools is what SMEs demand in managing passenger and goods transportation” Antonio Perini, Business Manager of Viamente, remarks. “They require tools enabling them to operate on a par with larger competitors but characterized by ease and immediacy of use, allowing flexible and scalable operations while requiring no onerous investment decisions”.
“As an addition to our Viamente Web Service, the launch of the Viamente Route Planner Web App makes for a complete range of Software-as-a-Service offer enabling us to cover the various segments in the market of transport planning and optimization in Europe and North America” says Marco Porcaro, Marketing Manager of Viamente “with the goal of maximizing profits for our clients while making mobility more sustainable”.
Antonio Perini | April 12, 2010
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Viamente is proud to launch Web Services 1.0: innovative technology services for planning, scheduling and optimizing routes
Viamente announces today the launch of a set of innovative technology services for planning, scheduling and for routing optimization which allow remarkable cuts on most operating expenditures related to transportation: fewer vehicles, less fuel, less driving time.
Now a full range of optimization tools are available via Web Services for Enterprises and for those Solution Providers who want to bring more value and innovation to their customers while providing compelling SaaS consumption-based services.
The Viamente Web Services 1.0 permit immediate integration with IT systems and empower operations with a new set of functions. Without any need of local maps, the daily data on pickups and deliveries are sent from the IT system to the Viamente platforms where they are processed in real-time by complex proprietary algorithms. The entire process takes only seconds, running on constantly updated maps and taking into consideration all the logistic constraints of real-world scenarios (limited load capacity, time windows, compatibility of skills, average speeds by road class and many others).
The results are optimal assignments, efficient schedules and advanced routing which allow the Fleet to serve all the desired waypoints at minimum cost. In addition to the ordered sequences for each vehicle, a variety of supplementary information and formats are made available: KML for GIS systems, files for GPS devices and PDAs, turn-by-turn driving directions, and integrations with legacy Fleet Management systems (Tracking and Navigation).
Today on the Viamente website a free demo, based on a simple and intuitive Web App, illustrates the potential of the Viamente Web Services 1.0.
“The need of Enterprises and System Integrators” points out Antonio Perini, Business Manager of Viamente “is to ensure the continuous evolution of the IT systems with no efforts in terms of development and investment. They need ready-to-use, easy-to-integrate functions that pay themselves back day by day with the same value they generate. More than ever today, services need to be highly-performing, highly-scalable and up-to-date in order to respond dynamically and effectively to the constant demand of reducing costs and improving the level of service. The goal? It’s dual: maximizing profits and ensuring a sustainable business of mobility”.
Antonio Perini | February 3, 2010
