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Wayne.B

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:32:21 -0400, wrote:

Why do gated communities need all of those capabilites?

I am talking about golf/country club communities
They typically have a 4-6 person business office, 40-100 employees
(seasonal), a significant inventory of equipment, gates with bar code
readers and key pads, security cameras/DVR (PC based), scheduling
systems for the tee times, activity room reservations, a cable TV
channel (PC based) and point of sale equipment in the club house and
pro shop. My wife has 5 different systems running plus the normal MS
office suite. None of them can share data or talk to each other and
there are 3 different software vendors.
This is bigger than a lot of communities but far from the largest.
Like anything with the word "Pelican" in it ;-)

Interesting. One thing you don't want or need in an operation like
that is payroll processing - too many security/privacy/regulatory
issues, and ADP/Paychex do a good job at a reasonable price. They can
also do the HR processing and time keeping via internet based access.
Interoperability, as needed, can be written into the contract.

Equipment inventory/asset management can be done via shared files on a
LAN, same with tee time and room scheduling - could be something as
simple as shared Excel spreadsheets with some security and an audit
trail wrapped around it. Excel can hand off data in many different
formats.

Point-of-sale will require the co-operation of the software vendor to
develop data handoffs and reporting in some mutually agreeable format.