SurveyMaster Features

SurveyMaster Software

Survey Design & Reporting Software

Features of SurveyMaster

Allows you to create your own surveys
Has enormous user defined demographics
Gives limitless ability to write questions
Has 30 multiple scale formats
Prints questionnaires ready for clients to complete
Automatically produces web form surveys ready to be published to your web site
Automatically produces telephone or key punch data entry set-ups
Data input and control of NSC scanners
Has data entry and error checking
Surveys completed over the Internet are imported into the survey file
Has multiple report formats
Uses descriptive, eye-catching reports/graphs
Can generate file reports for manipulation in word processing and
graphing programs
Gives you at least 5 direct comparisons between surveys
Allows an unlimited number of different surveys to be set-up
Operates on Windows Windows95, Windows NT, Macintosh, networks, etc.

When you purchase SurveyMaster you own it. All the flexibility you need has been built in. While support is available, in essence you need nothing more than the software and the manual to get started.

Software Platform

The operating system has been built using Blyth Software's 4GL database, Omnis 7.3. Omnis 7.3 has an integrated development environment which allows the building of cross-platform applications for Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows95, Windows NT, OS/2 and Unix. It has its own data manager and can connect to all major SQL interfaces.

Year 2000 Compliance

SurveyMaster software is Year 2000 compliant!

Click here to read more about our Y2K compliance

System Overview

File Structure

You can create as many surveys as your hardware will allow. Just as in a word processing application you create documents, SurveyMaster creates new data files for each survey with no software limit as to the number of surveys you can set up.

Demographics

SurveyMaster has a 40 table structure for demographics with each of the 40 tables allowing up to 255 descriptors in each. Single value fields such as postcode and age can be added beyond these 40 tables to give an extensive ability to define your target group.

(These tables are not pre-set; you can design any tables you need!)

Questionnaires

Each data file can contain 5 questionnaires for historical comparison. When the 1st questionnaire has been defined it can be copied automatically. Data entry is also automatically set when you define the questionnaire. The number of questions you can have in any questionnaire is unlimited by the software. There are over 30 different scale types (reusable) available for every question format!

Your questionnaires can be printed by the system ready for respondents to complete.

(This print example has been scaled down to fit into this presentation. SurveyMaster printing will print to the capability of your printer)

Version 6 of SurveyMaster allows you also to publish your questionnaire as a web page survey complete with a Submit button.

Data Entry

For each question you can define the order in which it appears, the answer scale (20 available for each question), whether to print an example, further instructions, section break, page break or the printing of scale headings. For each question you can define the headings on the scale you choose.

Data can be entered by key punching, telephone interview, personal interview, respondent entered or scanning. Error checking is available on nearly all questions (comments and date formats excluded). Find, edit, delete functions are available on entered data.

Externally indexed files (eg customer demographics) can also be imported to enhance data entry capabilities.

Version 6 of SurveyMaster allows respondents to complete the questionnaire over the Internet and submit the results back to your data file.

Data Analysis

The power of SurveyMaster is demonstrated most in its output stage. The system can produce automatic totals reports to printer, graph and file formats (all 3 at once if needed). The definable searches can be set to run at a later time. Each search is saved as a record and can be run many times. Multiple search criteria can be set and search headings print onto reports and graphs for easy identification.