DPS Partner Wine Management Systems
Featured in Wine Business Monthly
Excerpt from "Top 11 Products for the Small Winery" by Alison Crowe
Winery Software
"No longer just for big wineries anymore, winemaking and cellar management software can really keep a small winery humming. Winemaking software can help track barrels, blends, vineyard blocks, chemical analyses and dry goods, among many other things. Systems are often sold in modularized packages, allowing wineries to only purchase the modules that suit their needs or operating styles. For example, a winery may want to purchase a vineyard module, winery module, dry goods (chemicals and bottling goods) but leave the tasting room or accounting module alone. Some modules can run as little as $750, but a functionally complete suite of modules will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $7,000 to $10,000.
For small wineries, this kind of capital expenditure can be tough to justify. However, by looking at the level of complexity at which you do business, it can start to make sense. Having a vineyard module can allow estate properties to track pruning practices, vineyard treatments and harvest data by block or by row, providing valuable historical and current vintage data. In the winery, detailed blend records can be tracked in vessels as small as you like. Barrels, kegs and even carboys can be tracked, allowing winemakers who keep many small lots separate to have their entire inventory at their fingertips. Analysis and tasting notes can be attached to blends, emabling the winemaker to pull up any blend five years later and read their tasting comments.
Small wineries will most likely be interested in cellar software that doesn't require an IT department and special computer servers to run.
Don't want to buy any kind of new software at all? The coolest innovation to come along in winery software in years is the new software-as-a-service, or "webware", put out by Wine Management Systems. This cellar management software system is unique in that it "lives" entirely on the Internet - all you need is a Web browser to find, log into and update your winery's records on their secure Web pages. The other benefit? It's much cheaper ... than many of its competitors. Visit www.winemanagementsystems.com."
DPS is proud of our partnership with Wine Management Systems, provider of software solutions to small wine producers. This alliance leverages our experience as application software developers and providers of software services utilizing a hosted model. Now referred to as Software as a Service (SaaS), this model allows smaller wine producers to realize the benefits of feature-rich business solutions without requiring the significant investment in technology infrastructure and staff. Wine Management Systems is the first to bring SaaS to this industry and DPS is pleased to be a contributor to their success. |
