Proagrica is expanding operation of the Sirrus Suite of software to desktop, and in doing so, it is starting a transition from its legacy desktop application, Summit. The newly launched web environment aims to bring an elevated level of collaboration between trusted advisers and farmers.
Optimizing Where Work Happens
“Sirrus has traditionally been run on a mobile device, for example, an iPhone or iPad, but we have recently launched a new web experience to better engage users where they want to be engaged,” says Patrick Sanders, director of strategic business development at Proagrica. “There are certain tasks which are more efficiently accomplished via a web interface and are less practical on a mobile device. The mobile device is still there for all your in-field data collection and working remotely with the grower, but this web interface can give you a much better, much higher resolution view into the data that you’re working with.”
Improved Workflows: Planning To Execution
An agronomist and grower collaborate throughout the season, authoring plans leveraging a combination of historical data and new product knowledge. Plans, to work orders, to work records (as-applied) is a typical flow for ag retail agronomists. The Sirrus Suite provides an easy-to-use collaboration tool for the agronomist/grower ecosystem. It enables a user to create plans and export to equipment on the mobile device while batch importing as-applied data on the web.
What The Software Does
“Proagrica strives to make our users more productive by automating steps via digitization, which allows our users to focus on tasks that best serve their grower customers,” Sanders says.
Via the Sirrus Suite, agronomists can use Proagrica’s algorithm execution service, FarmRite, for automating the creation of crop input recommendations, making edits to fertilizer, seed and pesticide recommendations, and sharing their reports and machine files with applicators and growers.
Other functionality includes tracking work orders; updating completed jobs; importing machinery data; and managing in-field agronomy data including scouting, soil sampling, crop inputs, and harvest data.
What’s Next For Proagrica
Company leaders say Proagrica’s acquisition of CDMS sets the stage for bringing compliance functions into Sirrus, which is used by thousands of agronomists across the globe.
