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42 WINES&VINES July 2017 WINERY & VINEYARD EQUIPMENT VINTEGRATE WINERY SOFTWARE Vintegrate is the winemaking program developed by the IT firm KLH Consulting, which is based in Santa Rosa, Calif., and was founded nearly 40 years ago. The company touts its program as the best and most accurate way to keep track of what it costs to pro- duce a bottle of wine from the vineyard to the tasting room. The program is based on the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics and features three modules that cover production, management and sales. Vintegrate recently began offering the winemaking system as a stand-alone product, and it offers work order management for mobile devices, harvest tracking, inventory and blending manage- ment, compliance reporting and barrel tracking. The system also of- fers a complete billing and tracking program for custom crush that can provide service billing down to job-specific functions such as washing barrels or moving barrels with a forklift. Price: Monthly and per-user fees as well as up-front implementation fee based on client configuration and size of operation. vintegrate.com WINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS San Rafael, Calif.-based Wine Management Systems says it was the first to offer wine industry software as a service through the cloud. The company's system is designed to handle all aspects of a wine business from vineyard data and cellar management to tracking, compliance and custom crush. Wine Management Systems offers a production-management module and system for wine club and point of sale powered by simplyCMS. The system can also link pro- duction data with financial accounting in QuickBooks. The latest version of the system includes an updated "drag-and-drop" inter- face, and the company is also developing voice-activated work or- ders for the winemaking system. Pricing is based on production volume and includes an implementation fee starting at $750 fol- lowed by a monthly rate starting at $250, which includes support. winemanagementsystems.com ORION WINE SOFTWARE The core winemaking system offered by Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Orion Wine Software is called Blend Production and can be used for vineyard management, wine tracking, compliance and inventory. Additional modules include work order management, barrel track- ing and tank monitoring. The company's WiPS system is for larger companies managing multiple wineries in different regions. Orion also offers systems for managing point of sale, direct to consumer, e-commerce and wine clubs. Orion also is offering a web-based de- pletion-management system for monitoring depletions, market dis- tribution and new, top and lost accounts. Price is based on production volume, but an initial "onboarding" fee starts at $1,000 with monthly maintenance starting at $300. orionwinesoftware.com ZOHO CORP. A unique option to manage winemaking operations and record data is creating a suite of apps through the Zoho Creator system. The company has some template apps for businesses to use as well as providing the tools to allow users to create their own via a "drag- and-drop" interface. The apps are designed to automate workflows as well as provide insights through custom reports. Price: For one user, a basic service that allows for three apps costs $5; unlimited users and 100 apps starts at $199 per month. zoho.com easy to learn, easy to use supremely powerful complete traceability from vineyard block to bottle • QR code vessel tracking analytical service and equipment integrations TTB & FDA compliance simple, all-inclusive monthly fee serving satisfied wineries of all sizes proudly based in the San Francisco Bay Area