Good Day to all!

My name is John and I am new to this forum; I joined in hopes of gathering information.

I am currently searching for software that will allow me to "poll" my remote locations on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. The software need to be programable, as the needs will be different for each venue. The challenge has been the variety of services that we provide and each venue. Almost all of our locations provide Food & Nutrition Services, some provide Housekeeping, some Facilities Management, Garding, and one provides all of these services.

Any input will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!
John Lauria
ISSI
818-787-2116 x 117

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "poll"?

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Peter T Davis
Frixer, Inc.
Helping people make profitible businesses on the web.

I'm not 100% sure what you are looking for but if you haven't been able to find the exact program you should take a look at having someone design the exact program that you want that best fits your needs. For example a medical office here in town needed a program to manage their operations, but couldn't find the exact thing they wanted to they hired someone to design what they wanted.

Alan

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Alan Moore
www.1stcalltechnology.com

Actually, this should be available to you. Particularly if you are only going one way with the data, from a remote operation to the head office. It's when you have changing inventories in several locations and want to update all locations on the closing inventories of all of the other locations. Of course, even this is available, but more costly.

By far the easiest and least expensive way is using remote software such as LapLink or PC anywhere. With these you can set them to contact your remote locations on a fixed schedule and download whatever files you want. It is even possible to "turn on" a computer that is turned off and get the data remotely.

Other than that, there are any number of what are referred to as "Vertical Market" software packages designed for specific industries. More common are Point-of-Sale for retailers and shop management for auto repair shops, but you can find specific pacakges for lawn care, security and all of the trades, as well as car repossession, beauty and nail salons and more. In your case there are hospitality packages that would cover most of what you are interested in. Many will have the option of multiple sites with daily polling capabilities.

The best place to find these programs are trade shows specific to the industry or in the backs of trade publications. While some vertical market programmers make a big splash, many have small display ads in the backs of trade magazines, sometimes in a category type listing, sometimes randomly placed.