SurveyGold 8 Provides a Collaborative Solution for Surveys and Analysis

Golden Hills Software, Inc. has released SurveyGold version 8, a major upgrade to their Windows-based application making it easy to create and administer surveys and exams, and analyze the results. In addition, SurveyGold 8 makes its debut as a unique, collaborative surveying solution that allows surveys and results to be shared amongst a geographically distributed community of interest.

Surveys authored with SurveyGold 8 can be exported and subsequently imported by any other SurveyGold user, allowing surveys to be authored centrally and distributed remotely. SurveyGold 8 surveys are distributable to any other SurveyGold 8 or SurveyGold 7 user in the world, making it easy for geographically distributed survey authors to collaborate. Survey responses collected by SurveyGold 8 users can be exported and shared with other SurveyGold 8 or SurveyGold 7 Professional Edition users, allowing results from remotely-conducted surveys to be centrally gathered for reporting and analysis purposes.

Other SurveyGold 8 features include a compact user interface with a full-featured spell-checker that supports 12 languages, support for ranking questions, improved web survey form and confirmation style consistency, and a host of feature enhancements and usability improvements.

SurveyGold also provides custom web formatting of colors and fonts, web survey responses submitted using secure socket layers (SSL) the leading Internet security protocol, and enhancements when filtering survey results. Additionally, this version allows you to publish web results in a browser, enhanced filtering of results feeding into all of the product's analysis capabilities, and improved processing of web survey responses. SurveyGold supports printed and telephone surveys, as well as surveys on the Internet. You can create an unlimited number of questions, responses, and respondents for each survey.

Setting up your survey is simple. SurveyGold's data-entry screens make it easy to enter information about your respondents. Or you can import respondent information directly from your Microsoft Outlook contact list. SurveyGold makes it easy to set up any combination of fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, or pick-list questions. For creating exams, you can optionally assign point values and preferred responses and SurveyGold will automatically grade completed exams for you. You can even capture the respondents' free-form comments.

If you're printing and distributing a questionnaire, SurveyGold makes it easy to create professional survey forms. After designing your questionnaire, SurveyGold lets you import it into Microsoft Word, or any word processor, for easy customization and printing.

If you're conducting your survey by telephone, SurveyGold makes it easy to contact each respondent, ask them the survey questions, record their responses and comments, and even schedule return calls for the folks you couldn't reach on the first call.

In addition to supporting printed questionnaire forms and telephone surveys, SurveyGold supports creating and implementing surveys on the Internet. With no knowledge of programming or HTML, you can quickly and easily create web pages containing your surveys. Visitors to your web site can fill in the blanks, check boxes, and click radio buttons to indicate their answers to your survey questions. Alternatively, you can e-mail questionnaires to respondents, or post your survey in a web discussion group. When respondents have answered the questions, SurveyGold can e-mail you their responses, or merge them automatically into your database for analysis.

SurveyGold lets you view survey results in full-color 3-D pie, bar, and line charts. You can mine your data by drilling down on the charts to examine the results in more detail. SurveyGold's filtering capabilities let you segment your data and discover relationships between responses by presenting the results from sets of respondents in multiple series. You can even create cross-tab charts from any two questions. SurveyGold's Microsoft Word and HTML reporting features let you publish your survey results in a professional format.

SurveyGold is ideal for conducting a survey of customers, prospects, employees, members, students, or any group of individuals, large or small. You can create and deploy a survey quickly and easily, gather the responses effortlessly, and analyze and publish the results professionally.

SurveyGold 8 is $199.00 for a single-user license. Existing SurveyGold users can upgrade to a SurveyGold 8 single-user license for $79.00. SurveyGold may be purchased securely online at www.surveygold.com where you can also download the full-featured product. Non-profit and academic discounts are available.

For more information, contact Golden Hills Software, Inc., 6512 Hawkeye Circle, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA. Phone: (719) 660-9888 Fax: (719) 623-0317 E-mail: info@surveygold.com

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