May 2007

Thanks to all the CfMC users, sponsors, and partners who attended the CfMC Users' Conference in March and celebrated our 40th anniversary with us!

We hope those who were unable to attend the conference will consider dropping by our coffee and dessert anniversary reception at the MRA conference (see below).

Survent v8.1 is Coming Soon!

The more powerful, more flexible Survent 8.1 is coming soon. Survent version 8.1 allows a questionaire size of up to 100 million characters, questions up to 1 million characters, includes webSuper (the browser-based supervisor), and for easier, centralized management of multi-language surveys, UTF-8 is now supported.

Please contact support for more details.

Stay tuned to CfMC.com for the latest news on Survent v8.1!

in this issue

Gallup Hungary using webCATI with 600 interviewers in 27 countries on one server

Most CfMC users know that CfMC software is one of the most powerful and stable software packages available in the research industry. One client is demonstrating that it’s also the most flexible.

The Flash Eurobarometer, a long-term study with a cutting edge infrastructure designed by Peter Husztik of Gallup Hungary, illustrates the strength of CfMC’s Web-based CATI product, webCATI.

Peter gave a presentation on the study at the 2007 CfMC Users' Conference in San Francisco this past March. It is one of the largest cross-border CATI studies ever commissioned in Europe.

The Flash Eurobarometer is a four-year project conducted in over 27 countries of the European Union, in 40 languages using up to 600 interviewers at any time.

The organization of such an undertaking may be daunting to any researcher let alone the IT demands in setting up such a network, especially when the time constraints for each survey are extremely rigid – five days of translation, five days of fieldwork and five days to produce the reports.

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Celebrating 10 Years of webSurvent Web Surveys

Ten years ago, CfMC developers released the first version of webSurvent for Web surveys. The product remains the most flexible, robust system on the market.

In 1996, CfMC President Richard Rands attended a small conference at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln where a professor enlightened the attendees on the promise of collecting survey data via the World Wide Web, in its infancy at the time. We've all come a long way since then, haven't we?

One year later, CfMC developers released webSurvent to the world. Built upon the solid foundation set by Survent for CATI operations, webSurvent powers Web surveys across the world in all languages that can be viewed via a browser.

A snapshot of today's webSurvent features:

Introductory webSurvent offer - free for three months

From June 1 to July 31st, new webSurvent users can add webSurvent to their research tool belt at no charge for their first three months.

Contact Sales for more information on how you can harness the power of webSurvent for your Web surveys.

more about webSurvent

advanced webSurvent features

quickSurvent - installed on your server

QuickSurvent, CfMC's survey programming assistance tool is now available for installation on your server. Contact the nonstop support staff to share the programming of surveys with your co-workers and clients.

What is quickSurvent? It's a browser based, point-and-click application that empowers beginning to advanced programmers to quickly produce webSurvent, CATI, and webCATI specification files.

The resulting files can be saved and/or e-mailed directly. They can then be further enhanced by a programmer to incorporate special features (utilizing JavaScript, branded looks, or sophisticated research techniques).

more about quickSurvent