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​Microsoft rapidly innovates, updates and releases new products and solutions, which makes staying on top of changes difficult. However, this frequent pace of innovation makes Microsoft technologies exciting. One of the biggest new areas from Microsoft that you will read a lot about is the Power Platform.

Two leading technology and service providers partner to deliver a fully integrated and scalable beverage business solution.

Did you read our blog about post-Brexit? But still, have some questions? We are here to elaborate more about a specific part of the necessary details you need when doing with or to the UK: the EORI number!

Now that you and your partner are getting ready to make the jump to a digitalized and automated system, it's not the time to get comfortable and expect your partner to do all the work! You and your beverage company have to be prepared for the upgrade of your business.

It has been 8 weeks since the actual Brexit has fallen into place. The British exit of the European Union has been in the works for several years now, starting in 2016 with the UK-wide referendum - where the people chose to end the 47 years membership of the state. Of course, the impact is quite big to every business involved with the UK. What has have been the first findings after the start of the Brexit? And what do you have to keep in mind for your beverage business?

Exactly one year ago, we welcomed a new colleague: Daniël Hammer! He started as our new business consultant and it was a busy year filled with challenges but also a lot of opportunities. One of those opportunities was the development of a PowerApp and the pilot project for one of our customers: A Delivery App. Read more about his experience of working for Drink-IT.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the ERP system to run your entire beverage business. Business Central will streamline your processes and make business decisions easier! And there are even more benefits to implementing BC into your company – find out the 5 main benefits in this blog.

How many people have really got to know Microsoft Teams in the last few months? Because of working from home during the lockdowns, it was harder to keep in touch with co-workers and work on projects. Microsoft Teams is the solution to stay connected with your team thanks to its many functions like file storage, workspace chat and videoconferencing. And now it’s taking the next step: full integration with Business Central.

Here at Drink-IT, our customers and partners are at the centre of our organization. We take care of our customers! Not only through our sales process or the set-up of a new project but even after the implementation is done, we still take care of our customers with our dedicated Care Team. If you’ve been one of our many Care customers, you’ve probably been helped directly or indirectly by An Van Gysel! An is our Drink-IT Care Teamlead, get to know her and her job through this interview.

The key ingredient in making an eCommerce RFP is prioritizing the questions and answer the most important ones first. Tackling a new eCommerce project in this way will allow you to determine what solution is critical to the company, get buy-in from the internal teams, and have a clear statement of solution needs.

Shopping in the B2B world is feeling more and more like shopping on B2C websites. B2B companies are on social media, they are active in digital marketing, and many of them are already offering personalized web stores. Do you want to know why?

Do we still need to convince you that a digital transformation, led by Drink-IT, will benefit your beverage company? We’ll give you 10 advantages you’ll definitely experience when choosing Drink-IT as your IT partner. If you’re still doubting after these 10 points, give us your contact information and someone from our team can give you even more benefits!

Thomas has been working as a sales account manager at Drink-IT and NORRIQ for quite some time. A varied job, which he enjoys a lot. We talked with Thomas about his position and his tasks within the company.

A Request For Proposal is one of the first steps in the process of the digitization of your beverage business, this is where you give an insight for the quote of your project. You give an overview of your needs and wishes for the Business Processes you already have or you envision for the future. It can be tricky but it’s a very important step to find a good partner in your new IT solution. To help you in this process, we had an interesting interview through Teams with Dirk Bruynseraede, our Project Manager, to give you more insight into the world of RFP’s. 

Transforming your business processes into an automated and digitalized system can be a struggle. The first step for an easy process is letting a specialized company guide you! But what if the language and vocabulary of an IT process is complete new to you? Of course, Drink-IT’s consultants are happy to inform you on any new words but if you need some extra help, we provide this glossary! Get to know the most-used but least-known words and concepts of the IT world from A to Z.

Robin has been working in our Care team for over a year now, the perfect time to talk about his job and his job satisfaction. We met up with Robin for a short interview. The conclusion? If you are a fan of the philosophy “Work hard, play hard”, then Drink-IT is the perfect place for you.

Tremelo, Belgium: Drink-IT, the beverage management solution of NORRIQ, will be attending BeerX in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Drink-IT had the honor to recognise the 'Beer of The Year' in the UK! During the Brewers Choice Awards we handed out this great accolade.

The International Beer Strategies Conference 2018 is coming up on 8-10 May 2018 in London. The event is packed with world-leading insight to the world of beer. The team behind the event has also highlighted some of the top trends in the beer market right now, which will be the focus of the conference.

The "Brewers of Europe Forum" will bring you the latest trends straight from the brewing sector leaders. From cultivating your own yeast to the science of food pairing, from targeting millennials to reducing your environmental footprint, the Brewers Forum will offer inspiration for brewers and the brewing sector as they come together to prepare a bright future for beer.

Continuity is the big advantage of the BrauBeviale event in Nuremberg. With its concentrated 3-year power, it provides space for new ideas – and time for them to develop. Not just the mega-trends in the industry, but also the smaller topics that offer so much potential for innovation.

Having the right fully integrated business management solution means greater efficiency and profitability for your beverage business and provides the scalable platform on which to manage, grow and expand your business. Here are three key operational areas that you will inevitably need to focus on and improve, whether you are reviewing your existing processes and business systems or selecting a new beverage management solution.

Do you want to make a difference with a team of highly skilled colleagues? And do you thrive in working in an environment characterised by freedom with responsibility? Right now we are looking for several new colleagues for our amazing Drink-IT team.

In a marketplace where conditions are tough and getting tougher, having a state-of-the-art beverage industry solution to manage your entire value chain is vital.

Meet Drink-IT at SIBA's BeerX 2018, the UK's independent craft brewing trade show. SIBA BeerX is a two-day conference and trade exhibition including seminars, debates and networking opportunities. It will take place in Liverpool from 14th to 15th March 2018. Industry Day, Thursday 15th March, will host many exciting key industry speakers and panel debates including Drink-IT.

The Craft Beer and Spirits Summit taking place on November 7th 2017 in the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK is bringing together leading craft beer and spirits companies, retailers, brewpubs and leading supplier of technology, expertise and ingredients to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration. David Ashmore from Drink-IT is one of the Key Note speakers.

We’re pleased to announce that Dialog Dynamics and Drink-IT have entered a new partnership in Australia. Dialog Dynamics will offer the Drink-IT beverage management solution, to the Australian beverage market based on its long-time experience within the food and beverage industry.

The global beer industry faces its greatest challenge in 50 years. All at once, there is falling consumer demand, increasing competitive products, heightened requirements by retailers and consumers, and tougher market access. This mix of challenging developments is not only creating temporary roadblocks for beer manufacturers, it also marks the beginning of a difficult era for the entire industry – a new normal.

Drink-IT is continuing the successful journey and is staffing up its sales and marketing organisation internationally to meet growing demands from the beverage industry.

Drink-IT has been on an amazing journey. Today Drink-IT is used all over the world by a wide range of different companies within the international beverage industry – including some of the world´s largest and most successful beverage players. A recent organisational change will support and accelerate the growth even further.

To enable future growth, NORRIQ announces a new organizational structure and a change in management. The change was announced at the company´s annual internal kick-off meeting.

NORRIQ was designated as one of Microsoft’s globally most important partners yesterday and was invited into the ultimate inner circle of strategic partners, Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle and President’s Club.

Once again NORRIQ has met the demands for joining the Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club.

Naviworld Mongolia is a professional services company supporting the sales and implementation of Microsoft business solutions that help boost corporate sales and productivity and help businesses realize significant operational cost savings.

In the previous newsletter Drink-IT announced their partnership with Qurius. In the meanwhile, Prodware acquired the Qurius operations as they are.

The Dynamics NAV User Day from UK Partner, The NAV People, was a great success.

IBIZ Consulting Services (IBIZCS) is a leading consulting firm that specializes in delivering Microsoft business management solutions to help businesses stimulate sustainability and growth. With regional presence in Asia, they support your business expansion and create competitive advantage through the enablement of IT productivity tools.

Drink-IT developed a customized CRM application on tablet for customer Heineken called Perfect Execution. The Drink-IT team is very proud that the solution won an award.

Along with our new customer, 961 Beer, comes a new Drink-IT partner, Xenatus Global. Xenatus Global is an International IT consulting company with offices in 10 countries. Servicing clients ranging from SME to Fortune 100 corporations. Xenatus primary mission is to help clients ...

The NAV People and Drink-IT Enter New Partnership We’re pleased to announce that 'The NAV People' and Drink-IT have entered a new partnership. Drink-IT, built on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, is an advanced modular software suite that is intended mainly for producers and distribution centers in the beverage industry.

The Drink-IT Team is very proud to announce that Drink-IT earned the “Certified for Microsoft Dynamics” accreditation for the Role Tailored Client (RTC). This signifies that the solution has met Microsoft Corp.’s highest standard for partner-developed software.

In April, our UK partner K3 organized their annual customer event. Almost all UK Drink-IT customers attended. Topics that were being addressed were EMCS, the Drink-IT RTC (Role Tailored Client) release, CRM sales, …

DynamicsWorld has released its yearly ”Add-Ons Report” and Drink-IT is very proud that it is listed as one of the best 15 NAV add-ons available in the market today! Each year DynamicsWorld sponsors a study to establish the best Add-ons for the Microsoft Dynamics channel. The list is based on many ...

Nearly all Belgian Drink-IT customers were present for the Drink-IT User Forum and EMCS event at the NORRIQ Belgium office in Tremelo. This is the first time that user forum was held. The purpose of the event was to allow customers to tell NORRIQ which enhancements of Drink-IT they would like the team to add to the product. Lots of useful ideas,...

NORRIQ was honored by Microsoft for achieving outstanding level of sales achievement and innovation, and joins the prestigious club Inner Circle for the 4th year in a row.

Drink-IT finalist of “2010 Microsoft Dynamics Western Europe ISV of the Year Award”. This week, Drink-IT, the Microsoft Dynamics NAV based ERP solution for the beverage industry, has been nominated at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010 in Washington, D.C. for the 2010 Microsoft Dynamics Western Europe ISV of the Year Award.