DatStat Illume™ offers a wealth of features and capabilities to meet your unique online data collection and management needs. Below are some key features—for a complete overview, please contact us and we’ll help you determine if DatStat Illume™ is the right solution for you.

Convenience saves time

Unlike simple survey applications, DatStat Illume™ offers convenience without jeopardizing the integrity of the survey management process.

• Seamless integration: DatStat Illume™’s XML schema and Software Development Kit (SDK) allow survey management process to be easily integrated into any enterprise’s data infrastructure.
• Smart interface: The drag-and-drop interface keeps track of object-related information, maintaining object-level logic and associations. Unlike other survey applications, there’s no need to manually reconfigure the objects or re-enter logic, saving you time and ensuring survey quality.
• Fast survey design: Drive higher quality surveys in less time with automatic survey-level error validation, object and question collections, text search and replace, and Microsoft® Word-based spell check.
• Quick reporting: Reporting charts, the data dictionary, and real-time access to data allow you to make decisions more quickly, which shortens the feedback process and saves you time and money.

Customization raises response rates

DatStat Illume™’s flexible architecture offers a tremendous opportunity for simple to complex survey customization, something linear solutions can’t offer.

• Intuitive survey customization: Survey-level customization and custom end pages allow you to control the look and feel of your survey including graphics, colors, personalization, validation, and object organization. This offers a better respondent experience, improved response rates and increased data accuracy.
• Flexible personalization: Multiple question types, preloaded respondent data, piping and advanced question logic allow you to customize the survey, which offers recipients a personalized, conversational survey experience that decreases survey time, increases response rates, and gives you more accurate data.
• Set-and-forget email management: Increase response rates by creating and customizing invitation, reminder, follow-up, and thank you emails and distribute emails based on where your respondents are in the survey process.

Consistency increases data integrity

Only DatStat Illume™ offers a complete set of capabilities that encourages collaboration and data collection consistency throughout the survey management process—better data mean better decisions.

• Centralized collaboration: A centralized system enables members from your DatStat Illume™ system to collaborate, leverage survey questions and templates, and analyze trends across groups. This removes organizational silos, increases data integrity, and creates actionable insight across your organization.
• Managed objects and questions: A way to approve, store, organize, and leverage your survey-level objects and questions, only DatStat Illume™ allows you to ensure survey-wide consistency with the object repository—easily save, search and re-use objects and questions across surveys while maintaining usage history.
• Shared tools: Customer-defined survey templates and multimedia files along with cloning reduce survey design time while insuring consistency across your system and among your respondents.
• Multiple languages: The translation module allows you to offer a single survey or multiple surveys to multi-lingual populations. This saves you money, enables you to easily reach your entire audience and ensures the accurate reporting.

Centralized control improves data analysis and security

DatStat Illume™ is one of few applications offering centralized control that organizations require to manage and analyze complex feedback initiatives.

• Advanced analysis: DatStat offers the industry’s first survey application that provides advanced cross-time period and cross-survey analysis, even with multi-lingual survey projects, providing organizations a way to establish more control over a broad range of data gathering and analysis through a single platform. And with shared queries, organizations can confidently and efficiently distribute project insights.
• Role-based access: With a multi-site and multi-user system, role-based and project-based management gives you control over survey publishing while ensuring confidentiality and security of the data across your system that other survey solutions can’t offer. Learn more about DatStat Illume™ roles.
• Secured data: With SSL encryption and survey authentication your data privacy is secure and protected, plus DatStat maintains a data center that meets the tough standards of IRBs and HIPAA compliance.
• Meaningful reporting: Use variable naming, data queries, advanced filtering, and cross-tabulation to control how you analyze your data—create real-time, ad-hoc queries using complex filtering and grouping to get answers to your questions—analyze only relevant data. For a complete set of features or a more in-depth look at how DatStat Illume™ can solve your feedback management needs, please contact us.