Breweries Look to Cloud for Better Business Software

Online, April 22, 2013 (Newswire.com) - The annual Craft Brewer's Conference is the premier event for more than 5,000 brewing industry professionals to attend educational discussions, find new vendors and share ideas to improve brewery quality and performance.

"Brewery Management Software" was among the popular hot topics at his year's CBC in Washington, D.C. as breweries sought effective ways to streamline processes, increase efficiency and run a better business.

OrchestratedBEER attended the 2013 Craft Brewer's Conference to exhibit feature developments and demonstrate how brewery management software can increase efficiency and performance from a business perspective.

OrchestratedBEER's brewery management software suite combines automated accounting, inventory, production, TTB reporting, MRP planning, sales management and CRM, all in one centralized solution.

The OrchestratedBEER exhibit booth was well attended by hundreds of CBC participants hoping to catch a glimpse of the latest cloud-based version of OrchestratedBEER software called OnDemand. By the end of the show, OrchestratedBEER had added five craft breweries to a growing list of OnDemand subscribers within a period of four hours.

The high level of excitement over OnDemand was spurred on by the fact that each brewery that signed up with OnDemand at CBC received a free iPad Mini.

White Street Brewing Company, Elevation Beer Company, Rhinegeist Brewing, Pacific Breach Brewing Company, and Hess Brewing Company joined a growing customer base of more than 45 breweries by signing up with OrchestratedBEER OnDemand at CBC.

The OnDemand cloud offering is unique in the ERP software industry because it is currently the only craft brewery specific ERP platform available for a monthly subscription fee, or more commonly known as "Software as a Service" (SaaS).

OrchestratedBEER VP, Reshad Kazimee, commented on OrchestratedBEER's unique place in the ERP software marketplace:

"OrchestratedBEER is the only true brewery management software solution that provides functionality for all the different processes of the brewery. There may be solutions out there that provide tools to manage aspects of the brewery, but you start running into the same problem when you replace spreadsheets with another problematic tool. You'll still be faced with the inability to consolidate and streamline the information needed to manage the complex processes found in a craft brewery."

OrchestratedBEER's cloud-based OnDemand product provides the benefit of an all-in-one turnkey solution specific to the needs of craft breweries, at an affordable price. The cloud option also simplifies the IT infrastructure and allows breweries to focus on brewing great beer instead of managing servers.

Kazimee also commented on the industry's need for a brewery software solution like OrchestratedBEER and the recent success of OnDemand at the 2013 CBC:

"OnDemand has allowed us to provide an affordable offering for not only the largest craft breweries, but also the smallest craft breweries in a turnkey cloud-based model. The 2013 Craft Brewer's Conference in D.C. proved that the need for brewery software is abundant in the industry, and the five breweries that signed up with OnDemand can attest to that."

"With OnDemand we can provide an affordable offering for all breweries so they can access the same best practices that we have provided to our larger standard and enterprise customers."

The five breweries that signed up for the OnDemand product were either startup breweries or within the first few years of operation.

Most OnDemand breweries can expect to go live with the software in approximately 30 days depending on the current implementation queue. The five breweries that signed up at CBC have expected "go-live" dates scheduled for June of 2013.