Aloha CDM

The Centralized Data Management (CDM) feature of Aloha Enterprise.com empowers you with the management of data from a central location, thus significantly simplifying your restaurant operations. It also eliminates duplicate data entry of POS menu items, promotions, comps, and other data, which decreases the chance for error, because with CDM, the data is entered only once by the central site user, and then sent via the Internet to the store sites that need the update.

CDM provides the ability to differentiate between corporate-owned and store-owned data, allowing for shared ownership between corporate and the store. For example, employee data – such as adding and terminating an employee – is considered store-owned, but sales items – such as menu changes and price changes – can be designated as corporate owned, or perhaps "shared", meaning the data can be updated by either the corporate user, or the store site user. With CDM, data ownership is entirely up to headquarters, and how much control they want to have over company POS data.

The CDM set of tools enables corporate to control all aspects of a POS database from a central location, and distribute updates to the stores. Using the centralized model allows customers to eliminate redundant entry of critical data such as tax or menu item setup – encouraging managers to attend to other mission-critical aspects of their business, like servicing the guests, food preparation, and training employees.

CDM can be purchased as a stand-alone product or integrated with the Aloha Enterprise.com suite of products. CDM as a standalone product requires the company to provide its own mechanism for the data distribution. The powerful CDM suite is built-in to the Aloha Enterprise.com platform, which allows Enterprise users to seamlessly distribute all data updates to each store, using highly redundant and well-proven Internet communications software.