Amphora Wine Log - Fermsoft - Winemaking and Brewing Software

Description

Amphora Wine Log is a powerful application that is used to track and manage the winemaking process. It is a winemaking log with advanced data storage, management, and presentation capabilities. Amphora Wine Log is very sophisticated software, yet is very simple to use, and has features that the most advanced winemaker will appreciate, such as user-defined database queries, reports, and charts.

Amphora Wine Log has been designed to appeal and be accessible to both the home and professional winemaker. In addition to the many home winemakers, Amphora has been installed in over 500 commercial wineries and vineyards in more than 30 countries around the world.

Amphora Wine Log is available in two versions: Basic and Professional. Amphora Basic provides the core features required to track the winemaking process. Amphora Pro builds on Amphora Basic by incorporating many requests that have been received from professional winemakers. The pro version builds on the basic version by adding extra functionality, such as new fields, reports, and other capabilities.

Features

Database

Amphora incorporates the power of a full relational database management system.
Store and track virtuallly any winemaking variable.
Create any number of databases and switch between them to track multiple winery operations.
Database backups are automatically compressed to ZIP format for easy transfer to CD or other media.
Database can be queried directly using SQL to extract any possible information.
Amphora can access both local embedded databases and remote database servers* (*using Amphora Database Server or MySQL).

Reports

Includes over 100 pre-defined reports.
Reports can be previewed in internal preview dialog or in Adobe Reader.
Save reports in PDF format.
Create a batch log in Adobe PDF format, complete with bookmarks.
Create a batch log in Excel XLS format.
Data is easily transferred to spreadsheets for custom reports or analysis.
Amphora can be integrated with OpenOffice allowing the creation of user-defined custom reports.
Automated creation of sales invoices and purchase orders.

Charts

Create sophisticated pie, line, and bar charts (2D or 3D) with a single click.
Customize chart appearance with user-defined colours, fonts, and more.
Print or save charts as image files (PNG) or Adobe PDF documents.

Container and Vineyard Maps

Create any number of data-aware visual map(s) of your winery(s) and vineyard(s).
Maps are completely user-defined to represent the actual layout of your winery or vineyard.
Data can be viewed/edited by interacting with the graphical map(s).

Cross Platform

Amphora will run on most operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)

Upgrades and Support

Purchase includes free updates for one year.
Purchase includes free email support.

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Requirements

Amphora Wine Log will run on nearly all operating systems including Windows (Win2000 or greater), Linux, Mac OS X (10.6 or greater), and others. Amphora requires about 50 MB of free hard drive space and 1 GB or more of RAM is recommended.

Purchases and Trial Downloads - Amphora Basic and Professional

Amphora Wine Log Basic

Amphora Wine Log Basic (Version 6.16)	Download Trial Version (free)	Full Version Single User Licence ($69.95 USD)	Full Version Multiple User Licence ($149.95 USD)
Amphora Wine Log Basic for Windows	Download (18 MB)	Purchase	Purchase
Amphora Wine Log Basic for Linux	Download (10 MB)	Purchase	Purchase
Amphora Wine Log Basic for Mac OS X	Download (10 MB)	Purchase	Purchase

What's new in this version?

Amphora Wine Log Professional

Amphora Wine Log Professional builds on Amphora Wine Log Basic by including many requests that have been received from professional winemakers. The pro version builds on the basic version by adding extra functionality, such as new fields, reports, and other capabilities. The majority of future features will be added to the pro version. The complete list of changes in version 7 are listed here.

Amphora Wine Log Professional (Version 7.10)	Download Trial Version (free)	Full Version Single User Licence ($249.95 USD)	Full Version Multiple User Licence ($499.95 USD)
Amphora Wine Log Pro for Windows	Download (21 MB)	Purchase	Purchase
Amphora Wine Log Pro for Linux	Download (12 MB)	Purchase	Purchase
Amphora Wine Log Pro for Mac OS X	Download (12 MB)	Purchase	Purchase

What's new in this version?

NOTE: Existing registered Amphora Basic users can purchase Amphora Wine Log Pro at a discounted price ($199.95) by going to Amphora Wine Log Updates

* Secure payment processing is handled by SWREG. A large number of payment options are available.

* Your order confirmation will contain a link where the software can be downloaded.

* The 30 day trial version is identical to full version except that it allows the creation of 1 batch only.

Product Updates

Purchase includes one year of free updates.

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Installation

Windows

Just click the downloaded file and follow the instructions.

Mac and Linux

Unpack the archive: unzip amphora616.zip (basic version) OR amphora710.zip (pro version)

Double click on install.jar and follow the instructions. If no file association is set up for jar files then the installer can be executed at the command line: java -jar install.jar

After installing, the application is started by clicking Amphora.jar or executing java -jar Amphora.jar on the command line.

Support

A Knowledgebase is located here: Knowledgebase

A manual is located here (a work in progress...): Amphora Wine Log Manual (PDF)

Direct email support is available here: Contact Fermsoft