2010 USER FORUM

The Rutherford Vision

Michael RutherfordPaul Rutherford

Topics

• Rutherford & Associates History• eoStar across the USA• Interesting Facts• Fun Stats• 2010• Wiki• The future

Rutherford & Associates History

• Rutherford and Associates Incorporated (1986)• eoStar project begins (2000)• 1st eoStar Customer (2001)• 1st Beer Customer (2004)• 1st Wine Customer (2004)• Microsoft Gold Partner (2006)• MillerCoors Strategic Partnership (2007)• $2 Billion in beer and wine (2008)

eoStar across the US

Interesting Facts

• Our distributors service over 110,083 Retailers and Customers per year.

• We’ve added 22 new distributors since the last User Conference.

• 3 of the top 15 MillerCoors distributors are eoStar users. (Beverage World, Sept 2009)

Fun Stats

• eoStar customers employ over 7200 employees.

• 1,100 sales routes per day, on average.• 1,000 drivers per day, on average.• 28 million deliveries per year.• 417 million gallons of Beer, Wine, and Soda

are sold per year through eoStar.• $2.8 billion in revenue per year.

2010- Company

• 6 Full time developers• Full time quality assurance department• Four new technicians• New sales team

2010- SoftwareOver 4K code submissions in the past 12 months2.1 Million lines of code

2010 - Software

2010 - Software

The future

• Forecasting• Voice Picking• DEX • MillerCoors Initiatives ( RIO, Einstein, DRIVE)• Mobile Applications• Hosted Solution• TFS ( Issues and requests communications)

Wiki

• Over 2,000 articles• Wiki Forums• Erin Nelson – Technical Writer

Forum

• Wiki Forum– What is it? • It is an online message board for Peer-to-Peer or

monitored conversations about anything eoStar related

– Forum Setup:• 3 categories: Features and Functionality, Best

Practices, and Technology monitored by a Rutherford employee. • One-click subscription to Forums and Threads • It’s private – only logged in wiki users may access it

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Categories

• Features and functionality– Customer suggestions: monitored by development

team– Request for feedback: gathering of requirements– Subscription recommended

• Best Practices– Peer-to-Peer with Rutherford moderator

• Technology– Technology Watch

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Training

• LiveMeetings – Look for wiki training in the upcoming eoStar

Newsletter.

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2010 Forum Kick Off

• Enjoy the sessions!

Discuss | Ask | Suggest

• Michael Rutherfordmike@eostar.com

• Paul Rutherfordpaul@eostar.com

Discussions online at www.wiki-eostar.com