Wine-CENTRE

INTRODUCTION:

Wine-CENTRE is a comprehensive wineformatics (as a wine-centric information technology) concept we have recently developed by the determination of "let's bring some IT to the wine" to integrate for the wineries the IT solutions they use and can apply, together with our own ideas incorporated into the concept as new elements, and by assessing the domestic and foreign systems are available on the market, including the whole range of wineries' activities, considering the functional role of each element of the concept individually and in their context too, in order to jointly best serve the objectives of the wineries to increase their efficiency and productivity (additionally, the concept also summarises all the actors and processes involved in the wine sector and its related sectors, as a demonstration of interactions and opportunities).

Essentially, we started this as a software-developing initiative within an internal project of our own, but in the meantime some further related opportunities have also emerged along the lines of the ideas and consultations and we do believe that many of which are valuable and useful to address in the future as part of wineformatics as well, such as tourism, education and even arts that are associated with wine.

In the following we will review and summarise what we mean and how we define by the theoretical and practical side of wineformatics – according to our main points of view, such as

● objective: wineformatics would be developed and localised as an asset in order to make the IT potentials more widely known and the IT solutions more widely applied for the domestic wineries, so they could take advantage of these as expansive as possible to increase their efficiency, competitiveness and effectiveness;

● motivation: wineformatics would be based on the fact that it is currently such a key element from among the many factors determining the activity of wineries with the application of which we are relatively lagging behind the international standard, and therefore by developing it we can achieve significant results in further increasing the success of our wineries;

● derivation: wineformatics would be defined as the interdisciplinary field of information (and communication) technology with specialisation in wine, oenology and viticulture, in conjunction with the general enterprise resource management areas of the wineries and vineyards, which is intended to establish with a service-type and mission-conscious approach decidedly;

● structure: wineformatics would be filled with content that could introduce wineries the IT potentials, the available IT solutions and the practice of applying those, altogether providing them answers to such issues like why it is worth, what it is worth and how it is worth applying IT, thereby helping them to take IT culture to the next level;

● appearance: wineformatics would be made available on an internet portal as its central element, through which presentations, surveys and analyses are being published on the opportunities, solutions, methodologies, effects, experiences and results to be presented as thematic parts organised in the form of various research, studies, lectures, conferences and trainings.

● extension: wineformatics could also include the development side in the future with the similar approach of its current user orientation.

Next we are looking for contacts to the people and organisations with whom a cooperation could be initiated or developed in order to implement our wineformatics ideas.

Addition:

Wine-CENTRE wineformatics concept also implements a framework for the Wine-TABLE wine information platform based mobile application, the Vintner-TABLE wine controlling featured mobile application, and the Wine-SCENE immersive virtual / mixed reality experience application as well.

Contribution:

Wine-CENTRE wineformatics concept was developed by relying on the opinion of external expert as well – i.e.

● Gábor Segesdi,

for whom we have a special thanks to his work.

Protection:

Wine-CENTRE wineformatics concept is considered to be the authors' own intellectual creation – all or some parts of which can only be used with the written consent of the authors.