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- SurveyMiner (zip)
- SurveyMiner turns Microsoft Excel into a powerful survey analysis and tabulation package. If your survey responses are already collected, SurveyMiner is the software to get the most of your data. SurveyMiner adds to Excel: advanced coding functions, crosstabulations, banner tables, multiple response variables, long labels, missing data estimation, data cleaning,...
- Tags: Survey, Grimmer Technologies, SurveyMiner, Microsoft Excel, Marketing Research, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-06-25
- Survey shows 39 percent of employees purchase their own laptop for work
- Employees are buying a lot of their own technologies to use at work -- including laptops, cell phones, and GPS systems -- according to a new survey from digital research firm In-Stat. This phenomenon presents IT departments with a series of complex challenges. by Jason Hiner
- Tags: Employee, Information Technology, Survey, Laptop Computer, Smart Phones, Strategy, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Facing the Software Quality Challenge: The Results of a New IDC Survey
- Development organizations today are faced with a number of significant challenges. They must coordinate disparate code sources, overcome code complexity, keep pace with rapid change, enforce compliance with mandatory processes, and work within budgetary constraints to name just a few. So, how are these organizations faring? Are developers successfully dealing...
- Tags: Software, Survey, Coverity, International Data Corp., Software Quality, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Webcasts 2008-06-19
- Iowa State University & US Department of Agriculture Case Study: Atalasoft DotTwain Facilitates Implementation of Remote Sensing Survey Application
- Iowa State University's Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology CSSM collaborates with the US Department of Agriculture USDA on an agricultural survey called the National Resources Inventory NRI. The survey is conducted via interpretation of aerial photographs. To streamline the scanning and consistent naming of thousands of aerial photographs, developers...
- Tags: Iowa State University, U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Case studies
- Online Survey Solution Increases Interactive Delegate Participation at Top Government Conference
- Traditionally, conference feedback surveys are conducted using paper forms. Back-office staff re-key responses into computer systems for processing and analysis. To increase the active participation of delegates, a new survey system was launched at the 2005 annual Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in the Czech Republic. This used Pocket PCs to...
- Tags: Government, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Conference, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Case studies
- SOA Today: Survey Findings on SOA Adoption & Enterprise Requirements From Webservices.org
- There's a great deal of speculation about the current state of SOA adoption and industry requirements for SOA to be successful. Webservices.org, the leading online portal for SOA and Web services, has completed a industry survey designed to end the debate. In this webcast, you will learn how SOA is...
- Tags: SOA, Survey, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- Select Comfort Uses Observer Suite to Perform Site Surveys, Find Rogue Access Points, and Enforce Corporate Polices for Their Wireless Network
- Creators of the revolutionary Sleep Number bed, the Select Comfort Corporation are the nation's leading bed retailer. When the organization desired to implement an 802.11 wireless network, they needed a solution capable of effectively and efficiently monitoring WLANs, including the ability to perform a Wireless Site Survey, monitor for rogue...
- Tags: Network, Monitoring, Survey, Wireless Network, Access Point, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking
- Case studies
- Geological Survey of Western Australia: Innovative Use of Mobile Computing and GPS Significantly Improves Productivity for Field Data Collection Program
- The inventory of abandoned mine sites, conducted by the Geological Survey of Western Australia GSWA, has focused on mapping sites of historic production, mostly for mines that closed prior to 1990. To make the project a success, GSWA needed to meet three requirements: a software solution that offered robust mobile...
- Tags: Mobile Computer, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Survey, GPS, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware
- Case studies
- Tuning in - Broadcaster Learns Customer Preferences With Online Survey Tool
- DiSciullo is Vice President of Research for XM Satellite was finding the best possible tools for conducting consumer research within the cost structure and ease-of-use criteria that would fit the company's needs. As a solution, designed using Microsoft technologies including the SQL Server 2005 database, Visual C# 2005 development tool,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Survey, DiSciullo, Marketing Research, Productivity, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Employers Skill Survey: Case Study - Engineering
- This study aims to build a deeper understanding of the changes taking place within the engineering sector, the factors that are dominant in those changes and the implications of those changes for skill requirements in the UK. The issues have been explored by looking at how the case study establishments...
- Tags: Change, Survey, Human Capital, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Case studies
- Army Medical Center Speeds Development 15 Percent, Gains Agility, Reduces Cost
- Madigan Army Medical Center AMC surveys tens of thousands of people each year, both to improve the health of its patient population and to assess the medical status of troops being deployed to Iraq. But the paper-based and proprietary online solutions it used were costly, inflexible, and time-consuming. After participating...
- Tags: Patient, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Tablets, Marketing Research, .Net, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Case studies
- Survey of the Speech Recognition Techniques for Mobile Devices
- This paper presents an overview of different approaches for providing Automatic Speech Recognition ASR technology to mobile users. Three principal system architectures in terms of employing wireless communication link are analyzed: Embedded Speech Recognition Systems, Network Speech Recognition NSR and Distributed Speech Recognition DSR. Overview of the solutions which became...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile Device, Survey, Emphasis, Speech Recognition, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing
- White papers
- Online Survey Company Embraces Growth With Flexible, Scalable IT Technology
- SurveyMonkey enables people to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. Since its launch in 1999, SurveyMonkey has grown into the industry leader of the online survey market and now counts more than 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies as customers. To maintain its competitive edge, SurveyMonkey needed to find...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Survey, SurveyMonkey, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Case studies
- Why Email Fails: A Survey of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes Outages
- While there is no argument that email is a mission-critical application for businesses today, email continues to fail, and fail frequently. Despite large enterprise investments in replication, mirroring, and tape back up systems, business have a 75% chance of losing email for a significant duration at least once a...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp., Survey, Outage, IBM Corp., E-mail, Online Communications
- White papers
- Oracle Case Study: Ordnance Survey
- The world's leading mapmaker for more than 200 years, U.K. government agency Ordnance Survey OS provides local councils, utility companies, and private sector organizations with the most comprehensive, reliable datasets in Britain. The agency was unable to integrate online ordering with its multi-vendor customer support, invoicing and back-office applications to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Survey, Back-office, Web Technology, Operational Accounting, E-business/E-Commerce, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Internet, Marketing
- Case studies
- Digitizing the U.S. Census Bureau
- The Economic Census provides data on manufacturing, mining, retail and wholesale, trade, service industries, construction, and transportation. Millions of businesses are required by law to complete Economic Census survey forms. Since 1993, Fenestra Technologies Corporation has helped transform Census business processes by leveraging numerous information technologies. The focus of the...
- Tags: Survey, Form, Economic Census, Transportation, Marketing Research, Operational Planning, Marketing, Business Operations
- White papers
- Broadcaster Learns Customer Preferences With Online Survey Tool
- XM Satellite Radio is one of the country's leading satellite radio broadcasters, started in 2001. One of the biggest challenges that the vice president of Research for XM faced when she took on her position was finding the best possible tools for conducting consumer research within the cost structure and...
- Tags: XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., Microsoft Corp., Survey, Broadcaster, Satellite Radio, Marketing Research, Productivity, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing
- Case studies
- Survey results: The Oxford Index - Demand Trends for Oracle Applications Consultants
- Based on a survey sent to managers in the hardware engineering field, Oxford Global Resources has released their most recent index of demand trends for high-end Oracle applications consultants. The only study that gauges sentiment directly from front-line managers, the report covers demand projections for a full year into the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Consultant, Oxford Global Resources, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing
- White papers
- etalk's Survey, Quality Monitoring, Agent Evaluation Solutions Lead to Award-Winning Service for Entergy
- Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy's 500 call center agents, divided among six centers provide service to more than 2.6 million customers. Receiving more than a million calls per month regarding billing inquiries, service requests, bill extensions, and...
- Tags: Agent, Entergy Corp., Monitoring, Survey, Real Estate, Call Centers, Business Operations, It Operations
- Case studies
- New Ways to Cut Costs in '05: Travel and Meeting Management
- Many organizations report they are entering into 2005 with a renewed interest in managing costs. A much-overlooked area for cost management is travel and meeting management. This webcast will examine new survey data that reveals how finance professionals perceive spend management for meetings and hear from experts on how to...
- Tags: Penton Media Inc., Survey, Management, Financial Accounting, Marketing Research, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Marketing
- Webcasts
