Virtual workstations for Franchises
Franchisors have a vested interest in every business they bring into the world: the franchisee's health drives home office success. A good franchisor will recognize technology as an integral part of this success. Implementing a tried and successful technology platform that is flexible, hardware agnostic, easily deployed and low maintenance insures that franchisees can focus on their core business.

Hosted Desktop Solutions
Uni-Data & Communications currently supports thousands of franchise units for nine franchise brands with Remote Desktops hosted in a terminal server environment. Thousands of franchisees employees log-in  securely to their workstations from their place of work, and work day in and day out in the brands' various franchise management, CRM, timekeeping accounting and office software. Each employee sees and interacts with data management has set permissions for them to access, and nothing else. Uni-Data's 24 x 7 help/service desk supports all of their connectivity and data access issues, and resolves IT problems remotely. 

Uni-Data's Remote Desktop is swiftly deployed and easy to learn to use- it's simply a Microsoft Windows desktop. But deployed in a SAS 70 data center once, and accessed many times over, the very substantial difference lies in the cost savings, security and flexibility:

• files can be shared amongst workers without the expense of maintaining a local server
• software costs are spread out over time with upgrades included
• data is protected and restricted on an as needed basis from employees
• users are restricted from time wasting activities like browsing, social networking and chat
• franchise software deployment is done across the franchise system according to the home office's schedule, rather than at the convenience of the franchisee

With technology standardized across the system, franchisors can focus on other areas of franchisee performance. Franchisors, like accountants, live for numbers: they know what it takes to keep a business afloat—the proper ratios of inventory, cash on hand, receivables—with the proper data in hand, a good franchisor can coach a unit to greater success.. Now you can.

Hosted QuickBooks® Solutions
Hosted QuickBooks® by Uni-Data & Communications gives franchisors the capability to have all franchisee's accounting files set to a corporate standard chart of accounts—with everyone using the same current versions of Pro or Premier that integrate with other software used in the business model. What’s more, with franchisees utilizing a secure, regularly backed up SAS 70 Type II data center hosted file, the risk of data loss and consequent business disruption is eliminated. Uni-Data & Communications is an  Authorized Commercial Host for  QuickBooks® Pro, QuickBooks® Premier, and QuickBooks® Enterprise, so no matter the size of your franchisees operation, we have the capability to properly scale the solution.

System Benefits
By consolidating franchisee data to one location, data gathering from the franchisees is a breeze: Uni-Data works with several leading companies in franchise business intelligence, and can provide data gathering programs in accordance with the terms of your agreements with your franchisees.

Uni-Data will, with a system-wide deployment committment,  provide revenue back to the system, offsetting the cost of technology deployment.

QuickBooks® Advisors™ will know that they now have the opportunity to self-host from the nwsgroups and forums, so you may be going through a "build or buy" decision right now. Our investment into this platform, replete with redundant power and bandwidth, SAS70 Type II certification, Remedy™ driven Network Operations Center, advanced failover over and ITIL™ best-practices—makes the intake and conversion of your clientelle a painless migration, with costs wholly absorbed into a monthly per-seat subscription fee. No upfront investment, no set-up charges. Easy account maintainance and 24 x7 support by screened and trained personnel.

It might be important for you to also know that Uni-Data has for very many years been "the brain's behind the best networks" in the financial services industry: we currently provide support for over 44, 000 desktops and thousands of servers nationwide for Fortune 100 banks, insurance companies, and investment firms. You've seen our ads in Crain's, heard us on the radio; and if you live or work in the New York City area, you've definitely encountered our company through the many services we provide to transportation, entertainment, cultural instituions and private business—Uni-Data and our parent Unity International Group are about as ubiquitous to big business as a service provider can hope to achieve. We're a stable, employee-owned company, with a long history, and we're here to stay. So if you're ready to partner with a trusted team in financial data management, call us at (718) 445-5600 x3180. Ask for Bob Babcock.