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VPM is built entirely on Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse. If you work in the Microsoft ecosystem, the architecture will be immediately familiar.

Here's what you need to know for a technical evaluation.

Architecture Overview

A modern Power Platform stack, end to end.

Vegetable Production Management (VPM) is purpose-built on Microsoft's standard application development stack — no proprietary frameworks, no exotic dependencies. Everything here is familiar territory if you work in the Microsoft ecosystem.

Full ALM support is built in: solution layering, environment management, and version control are part of the architecture, not afterthoughts.

Model-driven apps on Dataverse
Core operational record management — the backbone of the data structure
Canvas apps
Advanced production planning, pack shed operations, and sales order management
Power FX throughout
Understandable to any Excel-fluent individual — and now by Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools. Power FX is plain English for Excel-trained individuals and most AI tools.
Power BI
Printed forms and reports (logs, packing slips, invoices, QR and barcode labels) plus operational and compliance dashboards
External integration architecture
QuickBooks Online integration live and production-tested; designed for additional integrations
Full ALM support
Solution layering, environment management, version control — out of the box
Deployment Models

Two paths to market. Same architecture.

VPM supports both a transactable AppSource model and direct tenant deployment — giving you flexibility in how you position it for clients.

Option 2

Direct tenant deployment

Solution installed directly into the customer's own Microsoft tenant. Full data sovereignty — no shared cloud, no third-party data custody. Customer owns everything. Ideal for clients with specific data governance requirements.

AI Extensibility

Power FX is plain English for Excel-trained individuals — and most AI tools. That changes the extensibility equation.

Because VPM is built on Power Platform, AI tools like Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini that understand Power FX — as well as other standard tool languages like YAML (for Canvas Apps), RDL (for Power BI Paginated Reports), and M and DAX (for Power BI Desktop) — can help a client extend and customize the system, often without direct vendor involvement.

That's a meaningful differentiator for clients who want to own their technology rather than rent it. And we offer the licensing that not only allows it but encourages it.

The same AI tools used to help build VPM are available to help clients extend it — in plain English, on their own timeline. And if you want that implementation role, the architecture supports it.

Compliance Coverage

Built into the foundation — not bolted on.

USDA Organic Certification workflow support — input records, field logs, certifier documentation
Food Safety FSMA 204 traceability chain — seed to sales order, bidirectional
Lot number assigned at Pack Run. The Harvest Record is the required link between the growing cycle and the processing and sales cycle — established once, at the initial Pack Run. Lot Numbers can be subsequently repacked into new, fully traceable, Lot Numbers as required.
Audit-ready record structure throughout — no manual reassembly when a compliance request lands
Partners & Integrators

The architecture supports reseller and implementation partner models.

VPM is published as a Transactable SaaS Offer on Microsoft AppSource under the ISV Success program. If you are evaluating VPM for a client implementation engagement, documentation and technical overview materials are available on request.

The platform is purpose-built for a problem domain with strong growth fundamentals — compliance pressure is driving adoption independent of any sales effort. If that's a conversation worth having, we're ready to have it.

Ready to go deeper?

Request technical documentation or explore the AppSource listing. Either way, we're ready for a detailed conversation.