Toasting Victorian winery software success in the US
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16 December 2009
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Melbourne software company, JX2 Technology, has installed its modern winery software system, VINx2, into three leading Californian wineries and is pursuing plans to establish a permanent presence in the USA, showcasing Victoria’s diverse, innovative and highly-skilled ICT capabilities in one of the largest economies in the world.
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VINx2 is a highly visual web-based tool for managing the day-to-day operations of a wine business. It fulfils statutory compliance for wine traceability, tracks inventory and warehousing, and provides barrel management using wireless barcode technology.
Installed in time for the 2009 Californian harvest season, Jada Vineyard and Winery, Niner Wine Estates and Rack and Riddle Custom Wine Services said they chose the Melbourne IT company’s program over US-based offerings because of the modern and easy to use nature of the software, as well as JX2’s customer service focus.
“The system is visual, very user friendly, contains practical applications for both lab and cellar, rapid support response, and most importantly, the system is intuitive and logical, logical, logical! Finally: 21st century software for 21st century wine making,” Lorna Kreutz, the Oenologist at Niner Wine Estates said.
JX2’s software is in use at wineries throughout Australia, New Zealand, Canada and now also the United States.
“We’ve had to engineer the software to deal with Imperial measurements and the strict US government reporting requirements. But it’s been the system’s highly visual and easy to use nature that has won over the Californian winemakers,” co-owner of JX2 Jamie Gilchrist said.
Based in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD and established just two years ago in 2007, JX2’s rapid business growth has lead the company to investigate setting up a permanent office in California by the end of 2010. It currently services its North America customers, including several wineries in Canada, from Melbourne with online support, a 24/7 telephone line and on-ground technical support when needed.
Building on their success and with the assistance of export grants from the Victorian Government, JX2 will visit the largest wine industry trade show held in the US – the Unified Grape and Wine Symposium in Sacramento in January 2010. |
