The harvest cannot reschedule

In most industries, peak dates can be negotiated. In agriculture, the weather decides. If the weighbridge stops at the height of receiving, trucks cannot wait for a support ticket. We design for that critical window and for the distance between the farm and your IT team.

System load throughout the cycle

Planning and purchasing inputsLow
PlantingMedium
Crop care and monitoringMedium
Harvesting and receivingPeak
Storage and tradingHigh

Sizing for the average means running out of capacity precisely when the year is decided.

Four conditions no other industry combines

Agriculture is more than a seasonal industry. Its seasonality is determined by the weather, often in places with little supporting infrastructure.

CLI

The window depends on the weather

Harvesting cannot wait until next week. Systems must be available when field conditions allow work, and those days cannot be known far in advance.

KM

Headquarters is far from everything

Intermittent connectivity, unstable power, dust and heat in the office. When the farm server fails, the technician is hours away.

DOC

Traceability needs evidence

Buyers, traders and exporters require documented origin. Losing receiving, application or movement records means losing proof when it is needed.

R$

Expensive assets idle because of IT

Harvesters, trucks and field teams cost money by the hour. An outage means idle machinery and lost working days, beyond administrative inconvenience.

Leader

Recognized by ISG Provider Lens in Private/Hybrid Cloud and Managed Services.

24x7

Monitoring and incident response by our own Portuguese-speaking team.

300+

Customers across different industries and markets.

15+ years

Operating critical infrastructure, from inov.TI to PWS Cloud.

Your operation

Agriculture is not one single business

A grain farm, a meat processor and an agricultural supplier have very different critical systems. Choose the profile that describes your business.

Crop production

Grains, fiber, sugarcane or perennial crops: management happens across fields, headquarters, warehouses and city offices, and must reconcile at the end of the season.

Must keep running

Agricultural ERP and field-level cost control

Weighbridge, receiving records and grading

Telemetry and precision agriculture

Invoicing and inventory movements

Application records and traceability

What commonly goes wrong

Office server without cooling or UPS protection

A single connection that fails when the rain arrives

Capacity sized for the off-season

External-drive backups stored on the same farm

How we design it

Capacity sized for harvesting

Redundant connectivity between farm, warehouse and cloud

Local contingency to keep the weighbridge running

Isolated backups outside the property

24/7 monitoring, including the seasonal transition

In the field, cloud availability is only part of the answer

Moving systems to the cloud solves half the problem. The other half is reaching it: weather-sensitive connections, unstable power and receiving that must continue when the connection fails.

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A redundant path to the cloud

Multiple connections between the property and the environment, with automatic failover when the primary path fails.

Local contingency where downtime hurts

Weighbridge and receiving records continue offline, with synchronization when connectivity returns.

An environment designed for unstable power

On-site equipment is kept to a minimum. Critical systems move out of the farm office.

Support without travel delays

Remote monitoring and response around the clock, so problems do not wait for someone to drive to headquarters.

Three stages, aligned with your harvest

Agricultural infrastructure projects have a right time, and it is not during harvesting.

Map the cycle

We identify critical systems, the operating calendar, connectivity at each location and the downtime the business can tolerate at each stage.

Migrate in the off-season

Implementation happens during the quieter period, in waves with a rollback plan. The goal is a tested, running environment before harvest.

Get through the harvest together

Add capacity before the peak, monitor throughout the critical window and review improvements for the next cycle.

Solutions included in the design

A complete, tailored ecosystem to support the security and operational continuity of your business.

Frequently asked questions

What businesses ask before deciding

My farm has poor internet. Can this still work?

The assessment reviews available connections and which systems must operate locally. Redundancy and contingency depend on connectivity and application capabilities.

Do you work with my agricultural ERP?

Compatibility is checked with the ERP vendor, including versions, databases, integrations and licensing, before migration.

Can we migrate during the harvest?

The preferred window is a quieter period. If migration is needed during harvest, the plan considers criticality, tests, migration waves and rollback.

What if I have farms in different states?

The design considers each location, its connections, users and systems, with secure access and appropriate local contingency.

Can I keep historical records for many years?

Retention is defined according to data volume, access frequency and business needs, with access controls and restoration tests.

How long until we are up and running?

Timing depends on the inventory, data volume, connectivity and testing windows. The schedule is agreed after assessment and aligned with operations.

Be ready before the harvest

In a 30-minute conversation, we map critical systems and your seasonal calendar and outline a PWS Cloud environment with a clear monthly cost.

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