Join us for this free webinar and panel discussion exploring best-of-breed tools that centralize and streamline business data from winemaking to sales to accounting.
We will discuss how the ease of technology integration today creates what we call a single source of truth. This is how wineries achieve the visibility to control costs, optimize sales and boost profits.
Hear first-hand from Darioush Winery about how modernizing financials and commerce have benefited their business.
Don’t miss this chance to discover how we’re helping wineries just like yours make better business decisions with real-time financial, production and sales visibility.
June 22, 11am PT
Speakers:
- Viktoriya Kobzar, Darioush Winery
- Jessica Finch, Enavate
- Kevin Williams, Innovint
- Karen Urquhart, Commerce7
Enavate, a top-tier Microsoft Gold Partner providing technology solutions for wine industry management since 2014, has developed Enavation Cloud: VinPoint Wine Management, a software solution set designed to simplify processes and support revenue growth by allowing wine businesses to focus on non-administrative, mission-critical operations.
Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 applications have been revolutionizing the global workplace for some time now, but the newest technological advances allow wine industry operations to integrate with Microsoft’s industry specific functions for optimal data security, governance and performance.
According to Jessica Finch, Enavate’s Beverage Industry Sales Leader, VinPoint Wine Management assists with ultimate business process control and the fundamentals of day-to-day operations.
“VinPoint offers single source visibility across an entire organization, avoiding siloed data and operations” Finch explains. “Our clients can access the current state of financials, gain insight and get clear solutions. VinPoint provides clients complete control and visibility into inventory and sales, so they can make data-driven decisions.”
Enavation Cloud: VinPoint Wine Management offers rapid deployment configuration templates that eliminate time-consuming and costly implementation processes, bringing businesses up to speed quickly.
The software strengthens winery business operations through:
- Business Intelligence – Offers statistical insights and KPIs, driving initiatives and better decision-making.
- Tax Management - Efficiently and accurately manages TTB data points for timely and accurate compliance reporting.
- Wine Business Management – Adds transparency and delivers accurate data around all aspects of sales and inventory, including data related to varietals, brands, vintages and sales channels.
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) – Protects against cyber attacks, natural disasters and system crashes with foolproof safeguard measures to keep data secure.
“It’s hard to find people now, employees are definitely being asked to do more, and they can’t do it manually,” notes, Diane Fox, Beverage Industry Program Leader. “Our system eliminates duplication across different applications, so the valuable people you do have aren’t bogged down and are able to perform their jobs in a more productive and efficient way.”
“We work with a lot of larger clients, but the flexibility of our system accommodates wineries of all sizes,” Finch emphasizes. “Our solution and implementation model is scalable; we can start small and help organizations unlock the full power of the solution as they grow.”
“VinPoint is the most mature product of its kind in the marketplace for a reason,” adds Jessica Finch. “What we bring to our customers is a best of breed approach for the wine industry; combining best practices with the top comprehensive business application, the leading winemaking solution and DTC platform integration… all rolled into one, frictionless system. Outside of technology, it’s really about helping people, human to human. We’re transforming businesses and the lives they touch.”
To learn more about Enavate and how they’re helping wineries just like yours, go to: enavate.com or start a conversation with one of our industry experts today.
With the 2023 Unified Wine & Grape Symposium (UWGS) wrapped up, our Enavation Cloud: VinPoint Wine Management team at Enavate is energized by the conversations we had with both old and new connections in the wine industry. It was a special time for our team, and we are excited we had the opportunity to not only attend, but also to be a sponsor this year.
Sole operators, managers and those who work the day-to-day winery operations stopped to talk with us about the industry. For us, one key takeaway from these discussions is that they confirmed the need for consistent, secure business data management across the industry. And while data management is not wine-specific, how wineries go about collecting and using their data and financials is unique.
We know the unique attributes that make a winery’s financial data too complicated for a general business solution. We also know the value of your business data and the importance of protecting, organizing and storing it.
While we aren’t master vignerons, at Enavate, we are experts in business data management. Our expertise informed our interactions at UWGS and led us to three main pieces of advice for wineries in 2023.
Don’t Let One Disaster Lead to Another
We’ve heard all the stories of wineries losing their vineyards and/or bulk inventory to natural disasters: fires, smoke choke, water wars and infestation just to name a few. And no matter how many times we hear the same story, it still leaves a pit in our stomachs knowing what these businesses lost. When they not only lose their inventory and assets, but also their data, it’s a particularly bleak situation that adds insult to injury.
However, not all disasters come from nature. Wineries, like many businesses, are at risk of being victimized by cybercrime, such as ransomware attacks. Protecting data from cyberattacks or system crashes is paramount to keeping your business functional and thriving even in the midst of chaos.
VinPoint Wine Management comes with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). At Enavate, we can’t control the weather and natural disasters. But we can help you keep your data safe from potential cyber incidents, provide secure backups if you experience system crashes and keep your data secure and in one piece even if your computers are damaged.
Be Certain About Your Data in an Uncertain Economy
Ultimately, data drives sales. And with the economy showing signs of uncertainty, your data is your greatest tool to identify trends and business opportunities specific to your business. Today’s sensitive market, coupled with wineries still recovering from the downturn of onsite sales during the pandemic, caused a shift in the need for wineries to focus on how they use data.
According to HKTDC Research, wine sales from ecommerce grew from 0.3% in 2018 to 3% in 2022. And Gen Z is shifting their purchasing away from pinot grigio to cannabis and hard seltzers. Wineries need data to understand how to pivot with these changes— profitably and efficiently.
As the need for data continues to grow, so will the need for wineries to harness that data and leverage it to grow their business. VinPoint Wine Management is a complete financial management solution that speaks the language of wineries, making it easier to track wine-specific key performance indicators (KPIs) that hold real value for the industry.
With the pairing of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Power BI, accessing your data and running meaningful reports put you at an advantage over the competition.
Double Down on Your Data Literacy Skills
Centralizing, protecting and accessing your business’ information is only the first step in creating a successful relationship with your data. Knowing how to read and utilize that data is the next step in securing your business’ future.
Vignerons are masters at winemaking; however, few are also data literate. And that’s okay— we can’t be great at every aspect of our business. At Enavate, we’re great at helping our clients succeed with technology, but few, if any of us, are able to produce an award-winning bottle of cabernet sauvignon.
Becoming data literate in your business is a process to take one step at a time. When you partner with Enavate, you can utilize training to understand what your software does and how you can use it so it works for you and your workflow. We take the time to onboard our clients and are always available to answer questions long after implementation. To us, your success is our success. And success rarely happens without knowledge and training.
Stand Out from the Competition
Gathering and using data properly is a concern that commonly taxes small to medium-sized businesses, including those in the wine industry. Data can help you separate yourself from the crowd and keep you thriving, as well as compliant.
At Enavate, we value the importance and intricacies of the winemaking process. While moving to a Cloud-based technology may feel tedious or outside of tradition for an industry that relies so heavily on intuition and a handmade feel, it provides your business with the opportunity to keep this tradition strong in the future by leveraging your data.
Using a Cloud-based solution such as VinPoint Wine Management with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers wineries the necessary functionality to grow and remain competitive. If your business is growing out of Excel and QuickBooks, moving to a comprehensive solution that eliminates tedious and error-prone manual work is your next step.
At Enavate, we understand the pain points for wineries, and we’re inspired to help an industry that has been around for centuries modernize its technology to make what is controllable as easy as possible.
We can’t wait for next year’s Unified Wine and Grape Symposium and want to congratulate our booth grand prize winner this year, Nick Frey at Frey Vineyards, who is now the owner of the award winning, smokeless, portable Solo Stove: Bonfire 2.0!
Reach out to our VinPoint Wine Management experts to learn about how we can help make your data one less thing to worry about for your business.
Diane Fox
Diane Fox is the Beverage Industry Program Leader within the Product Pod at Enavate. Her focus is to bring industry experience and technical leadership to our beverage offerings. Diane has actively worked in the Dynamics NAV/BC channel for more than 20 years and in the wine industry for 14 years. Outside of work, you’ll find her and her husband traveling in their fifth wheel and enjoying all of the amazing and varied regions the U.S. has to offer.
Visit our industry experts at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium booth A2705 – enter to win our grand prize giveaway, a Solo Stove Smokeless Bonfire and carrying case ($400 value), and learn how we’re helping wineries just like yours:
- Gain insights by varietal, vintage and brand.
- Securely access information anytime from anywhere on any device with the Cloud.
- Drive scalable revenue growth with real-time financial and sales visibility.
- Easily integrate with direct-to-consumer providers.
We bring 20-plus years of wine management expertise and would love to talk to you about our end-to-end business management solution designed to cultivate and grow your wine business, so you can focus on your wine and brand – not your spreadsheets.
Enavate is a technology consulting company with over 20 years of wine management expertise. Our partnership with VinPoint, the industry’s most mature and proven business solution, combined with our team’s extensive implementation and consulting services, enables winemakers to focus on their overall mission: MAKING GREAT WINE. We deliver an end-to-end Microsoft Cloud technology solution that ties the entire grape to glass business process into one seamless, efficient and transparent flow to boost your productivity and increase revenue.
The industry is experiencing a boom in direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipments. Yet solutions with limited functionality such as QuickBooks and Excel can inhibit your capacity grow, especially when supply chain disruption is a daily reality. Most wineries use QuickBooks for financials today, but most also understand the imperative to become more efficient and evolve toward a fully integrated system that supports their modern, complex business needs.
Wineries need a solution to help them succeed with DTC integration, ensure data protection and improve customer service. They also need a solution with which they can be agile as the industry endures challenges. Read on to see how wineries like Vintage Wine Estates are advantaging from the most proven and mature wine management solution available.
Vintners have their work cut out for them when it comes to ever-changing legal and regulatory requirements. To avoid fines and delays, many wineries are turning to Cloud-based ERP offerings to track the enormous amounts of required data for form submissions, taxes and distribution. Technology has come a long way in the beverage industry. With wineries scaling up and expanding their customer reach, the amount of data collected is also increasing at a rapid pace. Systems that kept up with demand a few years ago are no longer robust enough to keep up with what is required today. Read on to learn how wineries like yours are automating accuracy and transcribing TTB forms with minimal effort to stay in compliance with local, state and federal regulations.
The environment can be a winery’s biggest asset or most considerable risk. In 2020 alone, California wildfires cost the wine industry $3.7 billion. If you’re keeping your data in a filing cabinet or an on-premises server, it is not protected from the possibilities of wildfires, floods or other natural disasters. With a Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) offering such as Enavation Cloud: VinPoint Wine Management, you can take advantage of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and ensure your critical documents are backed up and protected from natural disasters. Read on to learn more about mitigating industry risks or talk to one of our wine management experts today.
Event Type: Webinar
Location: Webinar
Date: 5/12/2022
After two years of unparalleled supply chain disruption, winery direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipments are on pace to exceed $4 billion this year. If your winery is running on solutions like QuickBooks & Excel will you be able to keep up?
Wineries face risks across their entire supply chain, from field to production to consumer’s hands. Winemakers have been forced to continually adapt to keep business going despite risks like a pandemic, natural disasters, or cyberattacks. Your technology solutions need to be able to support you through these challenges, encourage your growth, mitigate risk and allow you to stay competitive. If your current solution is preventing you from doing that, join our wine technology experts to learn more about the industry’s most mature and proven wine business management system, enhancing operations from grape to glass for over 20 years. In addition, hear directly from Vintage Wine Estates about their experience utilizing this solution and partnering with us.
Discover how we’re helping wineries just like yours:
- Achieve direct integration to popular DTC providers with an easy-to-use interface
- Make better business decisions with real-time financial and sales visibility driving revenue growth at scale
- Improve customer service with business insights by varietal, vintage, and brand
- Attain data protection from cyber-attacks and natural disasters like wildfires
Join us for this free webinar May 19 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PDT.
Presented by:
Diane Fox: Beverage Industry Program Leader, Enavate, Ryan Grant: Managed Services Sales Leader, Enavate, and Patrick Wyatt: Director of Business Applications, Vintage Wine Estates