Survey Said Enterprise Edition
The Enterprise Edition is our advanced PC based offerings that specialize in administering surveys in a variety of different environments. These include:
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•Internet Web based surveys presented as a universal HTML form
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•Internet Web based surveys presented by a sophisticated JAVA applet
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•Surveys presented on a PC connected via a Local Area Network (LAN)
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•Surveys sent to respondents on a self contained 3 1/2 inch diskette
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•Surveys presented on a standalone laptop, desktop or kiosk running windows
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•The core Survey Said package can generate a nicely formatted paper survey
The Survey Said EE Product can be installed on a PCs local hard drive or on a PC LAN File Server (shared drive). When installed on a shared drive, Survey Said Enterprise Edition becomes VERY cost effective to share among multiple users.
Survey Said EE Product complete specifications.
The Survey Said EE is unique in its ability to administer surveys in an incredible number of environments. You only need to create the survey once, and Survey Said can administer it using any or all of the following methods:
Internet/Intranet Surveys
Surveys by Diskette
Laptop Or Portable PCs
Local Area Networks
Kiosk and Touch Screens
Scanning The Surveys
Internet/Intranet Surveys
The HTML Internet Survey option provides an extremely capable and easy method for administering Internet HTML form surveys. The HTML option includes a single CGI-Script that services all surveys being administered on a web server. The HTML option enables the Survey Creator to create a web survey form that can be administered on any web server capable of running a cgi-script. The Survey Said cgi-script captures respondents information to a file that is then processed by the Survey Analyzer program. The results can be analyzed and graphed or previewed on screen or printed in a camera ready table format.
The JAVA Internet Survey option provides a very controlled yet easy method for administering Internet surveys. The Survey Said Internet Respondent (a JAVA applet) offers far greater control of the administration of an Internet survey than is possible with static or even dynamic multipage cgi driven surveys. The Survey Said Internet Respondent provides optional password protection by requiring an encrypted Survey Access Code for authentication, an optional Respondent ID, optional multilevel category definition for analysis subsets and a variety of question types. The Survey Said Internet Respondent uses the same cgi script as the HTML Internet survey option for capturing the respondent's answers on the web server, making it extremely easy to administer both HTML and the JAVA equivalent survey that provides greater control.
Laptop Or Portable PCs
The Survey Said Standalone Respondent can be used to administer surveys in a variety of environments. One of these environments includes laptop PCs. This option allows a salesperson for example to survey customers, or market researchers to interview respondents on the road or in the MALL. Wherever your laptop goes, so goes your ability to administer a survey. The Standalone Respondent makes Mobile Laptop Surveys a reality at a very attractive price.
Kiosk and Touch Screens
The Survey Said Standalone respondent or the Network Entry Station can also be tailored to administer Kiosk style surveys, complete with images, custom messages, and a wide variety of question types. The Kiosk option allows a preset timer to be enabled which resets the survey if a respondent walks away from the survey without completing it. After issuing a time out warning, the survey is reset for the next respondent if no response is received.
The Kiosk survey capability is an excellent way to administer surveys in semi-controlled areas such as waiting areas, bank lobbies, hotel lobbies, government facilities, etc.
Surveys by Diskette
The Surveys by Diskette Option allows surveying respondents by distributing the survey on a computer diskette. The diskette is mailed to respondents, answered on their PCs and mailed back to the administrator. The mail diskette contains your survey and the Survey Said mail diskette survey program for answering the survey. It is important to note that; All information stays on the diskette! Nothing gets installed on or transferred to the respondent's system.
The Surveys by Diskette Option supports surveys of up to about 400 questions per survey. This limit is imposed by a diskettes 1.4 MB storage size. The Surveys by Diskette license allows unlimited distribution of the program on diskette. The Surveys by Diskette option requires one of the core Survey Said packages to create and process the diskettes.
When the Mail Diskette is created, the administrator can set the maximum number of respondents that can answer the survey on the disk. If the diskette is limited to one respondent, the survey can be retaken at any time with previously saved answers. If the administrator allows multiple respondents per diskette, the mail diskette program will allow only the number of respondents defined to take the survey and save their answers. The Survey Analyzer wizard suggests the maximum number of respondents that can answer the diskette based on the survey question types and the amount of free space that remains after all the appropriate files and images are transferred to the diskette.
The Surveys by Diskette Option supports an opening image display or logo, images assigned per question, and a closing message. It also supports all the options that can be set for a survey using the Survey Creator ((i.e. skip patterns, auto advance, comments, question number display option and more). It also allows the respondent to print their answers upon completion of the survey (if enabled by the Survey Administrator).
The Surveys by Diskette option is an excellent value with NO per survey respondent charge. It is a well proven product which has been refined over 8 years and stress tested by hundreds of thousands of respondents.
Local Area Networks
The PC LAN Respondent option has been replaced by the Survey Said Internet Respondent (Java Applet). The Internet Respondent has several advantages over the PC LAN Respondent including:
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•Does not require deployment of special software programs
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•Works over a Local Area Network and Wide Area Network
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•Multimedia ability including audio as well as images
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•Works on Network Appliances, UNIX and Macs as well as PCs
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•Added security for both client and server computer systems
The Network Entry Station (another LAN option) is a networked version of the Survey Respondent program that is used in environments where repetitive surveys are entered on a networked PC. This option is typically used as a survey data entry station that is on a network. Common uses include; entering completed paper surveys, telephone interviewing, sensory panels, trade show surveys when computers are networked. One of the core Survey Said packages is a prerequisite for the Network Entry Station option.
Paper Surveys
Survey Said EE can administer paper based surveys. The paper survey form can be generated directly with Survey Said, or the survey can be exported to a word processor and formatted exactly to your specifications. The answered surveys are then input into the Survey Said database. The Survey Respondent program provides an excellent data entry environment for "keypunch" or heads down data entry.
Scanning Software
The surveys can also be scanned into the Survey Said database using third party OMR scanning products. Marketing Masters highly recommends the Remark product from Principia. The software has been tested by Principia and procedures have been written up specifically for use with Survey Said by Marketing Masters. For more information about Remark visit the Principia web site.
Optional Add-on Survey Capabilities for Survey Said EE