I came across today an open source survey application called LimeSurvey and it can be found by going to www.limesurvey.org. It’s a well developed open source application and you will find it useful. Some business models rely on surveys taken often within their company and/or customer base. Some business models even use surveys as a way to attract new customers and create more leads. There are several applications out there that you can spend money on. But I would not recommend you do that. Go with open source so that you can change it to customize your needs in the future. Here are some of the features as listed on their website:
- Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
- Unlimited number of question groups in a survey
- Unlimited numbers of questions in a group/survey
- Unlimited number of participants to a survey
- Multi-Lingual Surveys
- User-Management
- 20 different question types with more to come
- Creation of a printable survey version
- Ability to set conditions for questions depending on earlier answers (branching the survey)
- Re-usable editable answer sets
- Ready-made importable questions
- Assessment surveys
- Anonymous or open surveys as well as closed surveys
- Optional public registration for surveys
- Sending of invitations, reminders and tokens by email
- Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
- Cookie or session based surveys
- Template editor for creating your own page layout
- Extended and user-friendly administration interface
- Back-office data entry possibility
- Survey expiry dates for automation
- Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV and MS Excel format
- Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility
- Supporting more than 20 different languages in frontend and backend
- Detailed manual in several languages as Online Manual
Those are some killer features. Check them out by going to there website and downloading LimeSurvey. When you start using it or are already using it, please leave back some feedback on how it is working out for you. Chow!
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August 30th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
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