CLW Enterprises, Inc. began as a corporation at the start of 2007. It was the formal congealing of an idea that had begun a year or 2 earlier. President and owner Cathy Warner is a technologically-inclined person in the usually low-tech world of horses.
As the manager of, on average, between 20 and 30 horses at an 'A' hunter/jumper and sale horse barn, Cathy knows the importance of being able to keep track of information pertaining to a revolving door of horses. Typically, this information has been scrawled in a tattered notebook on a random basis. But with horses continuously arriving and leaving, it can be difficult to keep up with records on who is due for what as far as shoeing, coggins, dentist, vaccinations, etc., as well as medications and treatments for different health issues, and even feed supplements. As a lover of anything computer-related, Cathy naturally decided to get this information organized on the computer. She tried adapting several different software programs to her needs, but none of them proved as useful as she hoped. With the roster of horses in the barn changing frequently, those programs still required storing a lot of old information on the chance that a horse would return to the barn at a later date, as they often do.
So Cathy decided to start from scratch to develop a system that met her needs completely. The result is Show Barn Manager software. When peers heard about the software she had written, they convinced her that it was just the thing that had been missing in the horse world to keep simple, informative, and pertinent health care records. The software was designed around the ideas of one person, but all are encouraged to contribute ideas to improve the product and make it useful for many. The intention of releasing the software for public purchase is that it will fill a void in an industry that is moving quickly to embrace technology. It is designed to be user-friendly and to make it simple to retreive information literally "at the push (click) of a button."
Cathy has been riding horses since the age of 6, and has shown competitively on the 'A' hunter/jumper circuit for 25 years, working as a braider and then as a barn manager for Geoff Teall to pay her way. Recently, computers are competing with her love of horses, and she is quick to run to the rescue of other horse people who feel overwhelmed trying to operate their own computers.
Although written originally for a hunter/jumper show barn, Show Barn Manager software is applicable to any equine operation of any discipline, or even to a handful of horses kept at home.