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Cephrus Releases Details for Submerce™ Event Management Module
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus released details regarding their Event Management Module which will allow sites powered by the Submerce™ system to manage onsite and offsite events more effectively. The newest module is one of the many that has recently been released for the Submerce™ eBusiness platform. “We’ve been extremely business here at Cephrus designed modules that are not available on any platform or through any software package and this is what sets us apart from others in our space,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services.
We designed Submerce™ from day one to go just beyond a shopping cart, hence the term eBusiness solution rather than eCommerce,” continues Elliman. Cephrus has four more modules that are coming to the end of the development cycle and will be released by late July. “This is a true testament to our customer service as we will continue to respond to our client’s requests by developing the tools and features that each individual winery requires- not treating them as one type of industry as each of our clients runs things a little different and the Submerce™ platform adjusts quite easliy,” says Jonathan.
We have a few winery clients that have events on their properties and they needed an easy-to-use event management system but only found readily available software packages that were either too expensive, too hard to use, or didn’t have the ability to sell tickets online,” says Sarah Elliman, Director of Sales for Cephrus. “We’ve developed a module that can be added to any Submerce™ powered website, the ability to sell tickets online, confirm reservations and print a guest list any time”, adds Elliman.
This was one of the tools that we have been working on, but when we heard the comments from our clients, that helped us move this feature to the top of our internal ‘wishlist’”, says Tim Holtermann, Director of Product Development. “The management of something so simple doesn’t need to be complicated or expensive”, says Holtermann.
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Cephrus Releases Details for Submerce™ Purchase Order Module
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus released details regarding their Purchase Order Module which will allow sites powered by the Submerce™ system to generate electronic purchase orders and track them all the way from the creation and supplier approval to the receiving and the inventory updating process.”
“We wanted to take the hassle our of vendor and supplier management and empower users of our system to have all the information regarding the status of their purchase orders at their fingertips 24/7 and we delivered more than that- it’s portable,” says Sarah Elliman, Director of Sales for Cephrus. “We’ve added tools that suppliers have access to which will streamline many of the processes that are currently done manually,” adds Elliman.
Tie this into our Submerce™ POS and Supply Chain Management engines and you have very powerful system that does not require complicated software installations and months of training to operate effectively,” says Tim Holtermann, Director of Product Development. “We put you in control of your inventory instead of the data owning you,” says Holtermann.
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Cephrus Adds Stock Status Display to Submerce™
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus announced today a new detailed product display option for their Submerce™ eBusiness platform. With the new display, sites powered by the Submerce™ platform can select whether their online visitors see their actual product status and quantity available, plus administrators can display alternative messages or data on a product-by-product basis.
“Our Submerce™ platform is being used by many robust online wine merchants and one of the requests was the ability to control how their products are display, whether they were in transit, available in a few weeks or display the estimated arrival date,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services. “This system works exceptionally well with our Supply Chain Management module that allows customers to purchase wines that are in three different states of inventory- in stock, in transit or readily available through a supplier,” says Elliman.
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Cephrus Adds Wine Club Membership Referral Management Module
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus announced today the Membership Referral engine for their Submerce™ eBusiness platform. The module will allow any club members the ability to refer friends, family and colleagues to join wine clubs while enjoying bonus for anyone who signs up for a membership.
:This started out to be a routine development request for a couple of our clients that needed this kind of promotion system, but instead of our clients covering the development costs, we decided to make this a module that any of our clients could add to their Submerce™-powered website,” says Tim Holterman, Director of Product Development for Cephrus.
The Membership Referral program has many administrative options that automate the process of crediting the customers who made the initial referral and track it all the way through the chain of referrals. “We wanted to make the system as automated as possible because the management of this simple task can get quite complicated and with our module taking many of the mundane tasks are taken out of the equation in many different levels,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services.
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Cephrus Announces Submerce Supply Chain Management Engine
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus released initial details regarding their Supply Chain Management engine for their Submerce™ eBusiness solution which is designed specifically for the wine industry. Now wineries and wine merchants will be enabled to provide unmatched tools for collaboration with suppliers electronically while streamlining the inventory management and reporting process..
Submerce™ Supply Chain Management module offers advanced purchase order creation, shipment tracking, receiving and customer order fulfillment all in one easy to use online application while providing preferred vendor selection, quoting, automated drop ship, realtime supply availability and multi-level preferred pricing options.
New advanced inventory reporting systems allow the management of multiple SKUs, categories, product descriptions and internal and external multi-site product tracking and third-party logistics integration. “We’ve been working on this system for some time and have been testing the features with several large wine merchants and the feedback from our clients helped our programmers understand what was required and how to make product even more robust by adding behaviors and customizable rules that simplify the entire vendor-related ordering process,” says Tim Holtermann, Director of Product Development for Cephrus.
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Cephrus Goes Large with Printing Options
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus announced today the addition of an Epson 7800 Pro to their design group allowing the printing of photographs, graphics, graphs and just about anything else 24 inches wide by 100 feet.
“Our photography services have seen a surge in requests for printing large photographs and graphics for display, presentations and conferences,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services for Cephrus. “Now we can offer an affordable solution to our client’s printing needs we could never offer before because the equipment was rather expensive to purchase and maintain,” says Jonathan. Cephrus has several examples on display around their St. Helena design offices and visitors are amazed to output quality while offering an affordable price point.
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Cephrus’ Submerce™ Saves Time with Saved Searches
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus announced today the addition of the “Saved Search” function to their Submerce™ family of eCommerce solutions. Now you can save your customers time by saving searches for future uses or have the option to email those who have saved searches when the product becomes available or goes on sale.
“We’ve recently have built some rather large installations of our Submerce™ POS system for wine merchants and devised some neat little applets that will save our client and their’s time searching for wine,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services for Cephrus. “Now customers can search for products on sites that are powered by our Submerce™ software have the option for the saved searches function to continuously seek out products until the product is found, or becomes available,” says Jonathan. Saved searches is one of many exciting features Cephrus will be adding to Submerce™ in the coming weeks and there are many that are in a final testing phase that will be available in early Q3.
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Cephrus Releases Submerce™ Point of Sale LE
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus announced today the introduction of the first-ever online based POS system coupled with their innovative Submerce™ eBusiness platform. Never before has a POS and eCommerce platform been seamlessly integrated and so easy to use.
“Our Submerce™ POS was so well received we knew we were onto something,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services for Cephrus. By using the Submerce™ POS LE your sales people deployed in the field can now place orders as if they were right in their own office. Now customers can update their information online, day or night and the data will be reflected in the POS in real time or visa versa,” continues Jonathan.
Submerce POS Lite can be easily added to any existing Submerce™ installation just as easily for new users. We recommend giving Cephrus a call today and receive a demo of the Submerce™ POS LE solution.
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Cephrus Delivers Winemaker on Tour Video to Foster’s Wine Estates Americas
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – With Cephrus’ lightning-speed video editors and graphic designers, Cephrus has managed to create a 5-minute video for Foster’s Wine Estates Americas which will be used for a roadshow in which their winemakers from several of their premium brands will be on tour across the United States.
“Becoming seamlessly integrated with your internal marketing group is one of Cephrus’ goals as we can be called at a moment’s notice to turn projects around,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services for Cephrus. “By becoming an extension of your team, we can take on work overload by easily transferring the projects to our team while fostering a collaborative environment by passing content back and forth,” continues Jonathan.
By working with the internal marketing team, Cephrus managed to produce the video in just a few short days without sacrificing quality or requesting a substantial budget.
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Cephrus Delivers Human Resources Orientation Video to Foster’s Wine Estates Americas
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus is thrilled to deliver an exciting, fast-paced brand orientation video to Foster’s Wine Estates Americas. After three months of production, the video includes video and 3-D animated graphics for over 33 wine brands along with filming locations in Napa, St. Helena, Calistoga, Sonoma, Australia and New Zealand.
“This project gave us the flexibility and the mobility to use all the talents and tools that Cephrus has to offer to deliver truly an award-worthy 3-minute video that gets employees energized and excited to be a part of Foster’s Group,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services.
Cephrus will be making the video available online in the coming weeks.
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Del Dotto Vineyards Chooses Cephrus to Develop Submerce-driven Website
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Cephrus is pleased to announce that the prestigous Del Dotto Vineyards has elected Cephrus to design and power their new website. Based on the Submerce™ Club Edition software, Del Dotto Vineyards will have a custom-tailored solution built to manage their VIP club, wine sales and simplified content management.
“Once people have a demo of our Submerce™ platform we encourage people to check out the competition as Cephrus is very comfortable in knowing that we have the best direct-to-consumer application on the market while providing customizations to further integrate online data management with their current in-house applications and work processes,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Cephrus Creative Services.
Cephrus can help design a custom solution to meet your specific needs or start with any of our enterprise products and modules from our Submerce™ eBusiness family.
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Foster’s Wine Estates Selects Cephrus to Develop HR Orientation Modules
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NAPA, Calif. – Cephrus made the announcement today that Foster’s Wine Estates Americas that they have been selected to design and develop a custom application and interface for their Human Resource Training Program as part of additional scope to develop a HR orientation video.
“We were about 75% complete on the upcoming HR video and thought that our Execustream product would be a perfect fit to manage, track and display their HR Orientation presentations,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services.
Cephrus developed Execustream to manage multiple presentations, videos, images and documents all in one easy-to-find location on a company’s intranet or extranet. The program is even flexible enough to be either instructor-led or one-on-one or employees can run the presentations on their own, track their progress, ask questions via email and receive feedback through post tests or online forums.
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Cephrus to Deploy Submerce POS and eCommerce Solution for WineontheWay.com
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Winter Park, Florida – WineontheWay.com has selected Cephrus’ new Submerce™ POS and Wine Club Management system to manage their retail, online and wine club sales. Based on Cephrus’ just released Submerce POS system, people will now have the convenience of ordering online or purchasing in any of their retail locations. Customers will also benefit from Submerce™ eBusiness features such as order tracking, cellar management, volume discounts, pricing levels, and order history- no matter whether the order occurred in any of their retail locations, through the wine club, or online.
“When we decided to take our retail wine store online, we knew or new system had to handle three areas: the POS in the store, the eCommerce for our website, and our 400 member and growing wine club,” says Matthew Levy, partner of WineonetheWay.com. ”And it all had to work together. We searched for about half a year for the right solution. There is absolutely no question Cephrus is the best choice.”
Wineontheway.com is slated to be launched in mid-June and if you signup for their mailing list, you may have the chance to win a 6-month wine club membership for $1!
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Cephrus Becomes a Preferred Partner for New Vine Logistics
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Napa, Calif. – Cephrus has announced that they have received Preferred Partner status from New Vine Logistics. Part of the rigorous certification process is ensuring seamless integration with their fulfillment applications and post back of shipping information
“We found it very easy to build the necessary tools Submerce™ requires in order for the integration to be complete,” says Sarah Elliman, Account Manager for Cephrus. “We’re currently offering the connectivity free of charge for any new clients as part of our current promotion.”
Cephrus continues to be the industry leader in innovation and seamless eBusiness integration and looks forward to speaking with your company on how Cephrus can build a cost-effective eCommerce and POS system that will streamline your sales processes.
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Cephrus Begins Testing Winery Gift Registration Feature
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St. Helena, Calif. – Cephrus has announced that they are in final testing of their new Gift Registry Module for their Submerce eBusiness platform. The module can be added to any of the levels of the Submerce platform and will be ready for implementation by mid-May 2006 once final QA and testing have been completed.
“Our goal is to deliver the features that our customers want,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services. “We not only listen to our clients, we act on it since our system is not a “shared application” like some of our competitors are using,” continues Jonathan. Since Cephrus Submerce™ “installations” are unique and they don’t have to have a majority vote from the rest of their clients to add features that only one customer may require.
“Cephrus has some exciting new modules that will we will be announcing in the coming months as we are coming to the end of the testing phase,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services for Cephrus. “There’s one in particular that is going to revolutionize the idea of purchasing wine online and it’s extremely difficult to keep our lips sealed until we make the formal announcement in June.”
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Cephrus Announces Alliance with Paige Poulos Communications
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Pt. Richmond, Calif. – Cephrus is pleased to announce the strategic partnership with wine and spirits marketing and communications leader, Paige Poulos Communications. Cephrus will become the first-choice web service and eBusiness solutions provider to their clients.
“Cephrus was chosen based on the belief that they are indeed the best provider for these services to the wine and spirits industries,” says Paige Poulos, owner of Paige Poulos Communications.
“We are extremely flattered to be partnered with Paige Poulos Communications as they are very well respected in their industry and Cephrus is looking forward to continuing our support in providing award-winning eCommerce, design and video production services,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services for Cephrus.
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Belle Glos Deploys Sales and Marketing DVD
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Pt. Richmond, Calif. – Belle Glos has recently completed a five-minute video produced by Cephrus that discusses the history of the label and includes in-depth information regarding their wines. The video incorporates existing photos along with an on-camera opening with Joel Wagner, winemaker for Belle Glos.
“Cephrus is becoming known across the Napa and Sonoma Valleys for producing high-quality videos in very little turn around,” says Jonathan Elliman, Director of Creative Services for Cephrus. “It’s the reason why once you work with us, you”ll continue to rely on Cephrus, as our goal is to make your company look good without breaking the budget.”
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Blicker-Pierce Wine Merchants Get Empowered by Cephrus’ Submerce POS eBusiness Solution
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Blicker-Pierce has selected Cephrus to build a customized Point of Sale application tied to an eCommerce site based on Cephrus’ own Submerce™ eBusiness platform. Due to open in June, Blicker-Pierce will be focusing on the international fine, rare and collectible wine market, while serving private collectors, enthusiasts and wholesale clients.
“We source wine from selected and thoroughly vetted suppliers in Europe and the U.S, private collectors, and from winery/Chateaux/Domaine direct. Superior provenance, temperature-controlled shipping, and the highest standards of inventory and appraisal quality are always 100% guaranteed”, says Stefan Blicker, partner of Blicker-Pierce Wine Merchants.
Cephrus will be customizing their newly released Submerce POS eBusiness solution by adding many advanced features and tools to refine their wine appraisal and selection process. Using the same database for both their eCommerce and POS, Blicker-Pierce will be able to take advantage of customer’s ordering online for themselves along with checking on order status, creating wishlists, and updating customer contact information 24/7.
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Blicker-Pierce Wine Merchants Get Empowered by Cephrus’ Submerce POS eBusiness Solution
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ST. HELENA, Calif. – Blicker-Pierce has selected Cephrus to build a customized Point of Sale application tied to an eCommerce site based on Cephrus’ own Submerce™ eBusiness platform. Due to open in June, Blicker-Pierce will be focusing on the international fine, rare and collectible wine market, while serving private collectors, enthusiasts and wholesale clients.
“We source wine from selected and thoroughly vetted suppliers in Europe and the U.S, private collectors, and from winery/Chateaux/Domaine direct. Superior provenance, temperature-controlled shipping, and the highest standards of inventory and appraisal quality are always 100% guaranteed”, says Stefan Blicker, partner of Blicker-Pierce Wine Merchants.
Cephrus will be customizing their newly released Submerce POS eBusiness solution by adding many advanced features and tools to refine their wine appraisal and selection process. Using the same database for both their eCommerce and POS, Blicker-Pierce will be able to take advantage of customer’s ordering online for themselves along with checking on order status, creating wishlists, and updating customer contact information 24/7.
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