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Wine Management Systems (WMS) is a Management Software
Solution delivered as a service and created specifically
for the small wine producer to help them better manage and
track their winery operations. Designed by leading software
engineers in the U.S., WMS is capable of tracking all winery
activities from Vineyard Operations through Production & Bottling, Inventory & Allocation Management, Point
of Sale & Wine
Club Operations and ultimately synchronizing all financial
information to QuickBooks,
a WMS Partner since 2007 and the preferred accounting software
for wineries under 30,000 cases. A technology leader, WMS
is the first company to offer Software as a Service (SaaS)
to the wine industry.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
By providing the WMS solution as a service, our customers
no longer pay for "owning" software, instead they
pay to use it. Rather than making an expensive investment
in new software, our customers can lease per user, at a
price that is reasonable.
Other benefits to leasing a hosted application are plentiful. Upgrades, for example, can be introduced quickly and painlessly, avoiding additional software purchase requirements and compatibility issues. Approved users can access winery information anywhere
in the world that they can access the internet. The ability
to provide all of our customers' immediate access to the
latest technology is unparalleled in Wine Industry today.
Background WMS was founded by Terence
Flynn and Patrick Oates in partnership with DPS, Inc. in January of 2006 to address the glaring needs of the small
wine producer. At that time there were no affordable software
applications available that could assist in tracking every
critical activity that occurs in winery business cycle.
Patrick Oates, a former IT executive, recognized that there
was an opportunity to leverage the latest technology and
software trends to offer small wineries the same set of
solutions that were only affordable to large wine companies
at that time. By partnering with leading software companies,
such as Intuit and DPS, in addition to working closely with
wine industry leaders in production, sales and finance,
WMS was created and a new benchmark was set for management
technology in the wine industry.
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