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What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines

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“The key to this business is personal relationships” — Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) quoting famous (but fictional) sports agent Dicky Fox We live and work in a relationship-driven business. The key drivers are not merely…
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3 Ways to Simplify Training and Start Executing

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The best sales reps in the industry all have their own way of working that they become very comfortable with. But even the best aren’t maximizing their selling opportunities. An important part of our training is showing how GreatVines…

How GreatVines made the “Shift” to faster data processing

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Redshift is a massively parallel processing (MPP) columnar database system that was recently added to Amazon’s stack of cloud services. It is often brought up in the context of “Big Data” (think: scanning through Petabytes…
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Aptean Edge Review – From Behind the Sign

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Roughly 1000 customers from a dozen computer systems have come to Aptean Edge at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, most happy to be out of the office and eager to hear the Aptean updates. Like most user conferences, Aptean Edge has sessions…
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Take Control of Your Convenience Store Purchasing Data

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The glory days where distributors offered full guarantee on all spoilage seems to be gone and in general we see a trend of more and more activities being pushed downstream and your convenience store purchasing data is becoming more and more…
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Wine Depletion Data and its Influence on the 3 P’s

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How important to you is knowing your actual inventory level with your distributors? Or knowing which product is being sold out of which retailer? Some may say, not very, since your books already reflect a sale. Others may reason that it’s…
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Unified Wine & Grape Symposium Makes an Impression

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Wow!! That’s some show. Having worked in the wine industry for more than eight years, I’ve seen the number of details that contribute to a beautiful glass of wine. Just not all in one GIANT room. Unified Wine & Grape Symposium sure makes…
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Recap of Day 2 at SQL Pass Summit 2013

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SQL Pass Summit 2013 day 2 sessions! Another great day at the “office”, with great sessions and great opportunity for networking. The keynote was the hot topic at the water cooler, and it was interesting to listen on how it was perceived…
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SQL PASS Summit Keynote

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THANK GOD! I’m watching the keynote at SQL Pass and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 will allow us to ask for simple data we would never ask for and to graphically map it or chart it we would never want. No assistance on helping users join data from…