![]() ![]() He realized early-on in his winemaking career, that the data being collected was immense and very important to the success of his business. He tracks everything and makes decisions based on data. This is all before we inject business data, like sales, marketing, staffing, tasting room hours, etc. Then there is operational data, like supply ordering, inventory, and equipment. There is winemaking data, like chemical composition, process status, and tasting notes. The amount of information gathered, observed, recorded, analyzed, and processed in that time is quite overwhelming, especially when using spreadsheets, paper notes, and industry mobile apps. The wine production cycle is basically a 1-year process, starting with the import of grapes and juice, followed by crush & press, fermentation, clarification, bottling & ageing. They produce wines from grapes sourced in California, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Hampshire, Chile and Argentina. ![]() His winery is small, only producing around 3000 cases per year (sounds big to me), but really a micro-winery in the industry. We had a good talk, which may result in Keene developing an ASP.NET web application that would solve his headaches, at least the ones caused by the lack of technology. Knowing that Keene Systems develops custom solutions for common business problems, he started to vent about the lack of (reasonably priced) software in the winery industry for managing wine operations. It was a friendly visit, but as usual we got talking about all things technology and of course, wine. A very good friend of mine, who just happens to own a small winery here in New Hampshire, stopped in to see me this week. ![]()
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