 Introducing
SurveyGold 8
SurveyGold celebrates its
eighth birthday with a new version 8 product that sports a
fresh new look, rolls all of the features of SurveyGold 7
Professional Edition and Standard Edition into one edition
and introduces new features to make your surveying even
more effective.
In addition to adding support
for multi-page web surveys, SurveyGold 8 adds
significant value for customers who are conducting large
numbers of surveys, long-running surveys or surveys where
results need to be segmented for comparison purposes and
for surveys requiring higher levels of abstraction when
reporting results. This article introduces some of the new
features. For a complete listing of new features, see the
link the end of this article.
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 Folders
- If you are managing and maintaining a large number of
surveys, the new survey folder feature in the Setup Survey
tab makes it easy for you to organize surveys into groups.
You can create any number of survey folders and can move
surveys between folders at will regardless of whether or
not you have concluded collecting results for the survey.
For example, you could
create one folder of current surveys, another folder for
archived surveys, etc. After creating a folder, simply
drag and drop your surveys into the folder of your
choosing.
Import/Export Surveys
- This feature provides the ability to import and export
surveys (and optionally responses) so that you can share
them with other SurveyGold 7 and 8 users. This ability to
export a survey (and optionally responses), which used to
be an exclusive feature of SurveyGold 7 Professional
Edition, is now part of every SurveyGold 8 user's
experience. |
 Memorized Filters -
If you need to segment results for comparison purposes,
this new feature in the View Results tab provides the ability to create
a subset of survey respondents based on how they answered
specific questions and/or their response date ranges (known as a filter)
and then name the filter so that it is
"memorized" for future use. The value to this new feature is that provides
your with quick and easy access to routinely applied filters.
This makes it easy for you define and view a subset of
survey results based on a particular demographic trait
(e.g., gender, age) and/or the date range of response
(e.g., prior period, current period).
View Multiple Results Series -
Leveraging the Memorized Filters, this feature provides the ability in View Results to display multiple sets of responses (side-by-side in multiple graph series) for the survey you are viewing. The value of this new feature is that it provides the ability to show trends of previous period to current period, comparisons of demographic groups, etc.
Multiple series views can easily be passed into the
Analyze Results tab where you can publish results to Word
or the Web, or perform other reporting and analysis actions. |
| Weighting
Index Reports - If you require higher
levels of abstraction when reporting results, this new
feature provides
weighting index analysis. Weighting indexes provide the
ability to make assertions about attributes of the survey
results (e.g., the trust, satisfaction, motivation,
any other similar attribute that can be ascribed to a
respondent) based on the responses provided to specific
questions. These
analyses are helpful for making assessments of individual
or groups of customers, employees, or other similar
constituencies. They are commonly used with personality
profiles, business retention and expansion surveys, market
assessments and the like.
Setting up a weighting
index is easy to do. As a survey author you can at any
time (before, during or after the collection of survey
results) specify a weighted set of attributes and
associate them with your survey. You can then assign any
attribute to any question choice in your survey and assign
an integer point value to increment or decrement the total
value of the attribute. The analysis can be performed on
an individual or set of respondents multiplies the
relative importance of a attribute against the score
awarded to a question addressing that attribute. The
result is a new view of survey results that gives
consideration to relative importance of the attributes you
have defined. |
| Improved
Database Performance - An upgraded version the
database provides improved performance by providing
intelligent caching for optimal performance.
Web Survey Validations
Performed Locally - Web survey form validations are
performed without having to communicate with the
surveygold.com web site. This improves response times and
eliminates unwanted side-effects of having to click the
browser's "Back" button. |
| This is just
the tip of the iceberg regarding new SurveyGold 8
features. There is so much more to tell regarding
SurveyGold 8. For a complete summary of all the new
features click the link below. If you're new to SurveyGold
or you're considering upgrading, you can try SurveyGold 8
for free by clicking any of the links to the right. |
Click
here to see summary of all the new SurveyGold 8 features >>
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