Application service provider (ASP) featuring software for use in providing on-demand alerts and web based statistical analysis and reporting of business data for franchises; application service provider featuring software for providing an on-line database in the field of transaction processing to upload transactional data, provide statistical analysis, and produce notifications and reports; Computer service, namely, acting as an application service provider in the field of knowledge management to host computer application software for creating searchable databases of information and data; Computer service, namely, acting as an application service provider in the field of knowledge management to host computer application software for searching and retrieving information from databases and computer networks