Cinnabar Vineyards & Winery to Implement Conformia WinePRO System.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers/Wine Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2003 Conformia Software Inc. ("Conformia"), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to regulated, process-oriented industries, today announced that Cinnabar cinnabar (sĭn`əbär), mineral, the sulfide of mercury, HgS. Deep red in color, it is used as a pigment (see vermilion), but principally it is a source of the metal mercury. Vineyards & Winery win·er·y n. pl. win·er·ies An establishment at which wine is made. Noun 1. winery - distillery where wine is made wine maker has chosen to implement its web-based Conformia WinePRO ("WinePRO") solution for the 2003 harvest. Cinnabar's winemaking and production team will use WinePRO to manage, monitor, and analyze every aspect of the winemaking process from crush through bottling. WinePRO has powerful forward and reverse traceability for single click "vine-to-bottle" blend analysis and 702 form reporting. WinePRO's advanced tank maps provide winemakers with a near real-time overview into their wineries. WinePRO covers the complete wine production process with solution modules for Work Order Planning & Management, Cellar Management, Blend Management, Tank Management, Barrel Management, Lab Management, Compliance Reporting, Traceability, Costing, and Alerts/Notifications. It also covers the full brand life-cycle from trial blending, through production, and product history management. "WinePRO will play a key role to more efficiently manage Cinnabar's inventories and optimize optimize - optimisation our winemaker's time," said Suzanne Frontz, general manager for Cinnabar Vineyards and Winery and Chair of Family Winemakers of California. "We are very excited to begin using the system for this year's harvest and reap WinePRO's benefits." Conformia WinePRO is based on over 30 person years of extensive research and development into winemaking, production, and regulatory best practices. Conformia has developed the web-based WinePRO in both an "enterprise" form for larger/distributed wineries and a hosted version for small/medium wineries. Cinnabar will implement the hosted version to take advantage of the low total cost of ownership associated with a web-browser based system. "WinePRO is an ideal solution for Cinnabar Winery," said Joe Prang CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Conformia. "WinePRO is a scalable, extendible, and fully integrated technical solution that can grow with an organization and its evolving needs. As Cinnabar continues to evolve, WinePRO will be there to satisfy the increasing requirements for traceability." "WinePRO brings a much needed technology component to the cellar. And by optimizing my time, we are able to maximize our output without the need to hire additional personnel, therefore keeping costs under control," said George Troquato, Winemaker for Cinnabar Vineyards and Winery. Cinnabar will also take advantage of Conformia's configurability, training programs, and 24/7 support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , to further maintain and support its WinePRO software. The Conformia Alcohol Solutions Team spent over 22 months working onsite with wineries -- ranging from small (10,000 case producing wineries) to large (10,000,000 case producing wineries) -- to drive product requirements for WinePRO. WinePRO is developed completely on up to date components and scalable technology base. It is written in Java, running on industry standard relational databases relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. , and conforming to J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. standards. WinePRO's integration framework is designed to be extremely flexible and supports links to various systems like vineyard vineyard, land on which cultivation of the grape—known as viticulture—takes place. As many as 40 varieties of grape, Vitis vinifera, are known. management, financial, bottling, etc. About Conformia Software Inc. Conformia develops Enterprise Conformance con·for·mance n. Conformity. Noun 1. conformance - correspondence in form or appearance conformity agreement, correspondence - compatibility of observations; "there was no agreement between theory and Management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) Solutions for heavily regulated, process-oriented industries which enable companies to simultaneously meet production performance and compliance goals. For the wine industry vertical, Conformia's WinePRO solution improves product quality and integrity; enhances blend visibility and traceability; decreases costs; and reduces non-compliance risks. The company was founded in July 2000, and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. For more information, please visit www.conformia.com. |
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