solution provider , for businesses that handle beverage inventory ,” says Markle . Since acquiring AccuBar , BirchStreet has combined both companies ’ capabilities to create a single inventory management solution for food and beverage organizations . “ It ’ s very slick ,” Markle says . “ It has mobile capabilities that allow you to receive goods with your mobile device when it reaches your dock . This is a critical part of the process that enables flow-through automation from receipt to pay . In addition to promoting accuracy in the receiving process , it saves a huge amount of time versus writing things down by hand and then entering data into your accounting system .” Another example is Birch- Street ’ s investment in infrastructure for global scale . All of BirchStreet ’ s customer transactional data runs on Oracle databases . By leveraging Oracle ’ s technology , BirchStreet is able to host more than 2mn logins per month while maintaining a 99.9 % uptime . BirchStreet also embeds Softlinx services to send over 50,000 fax pages per month on behalf of its customers to the corners of the globe without internet . By switching to
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