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DatStat Illume offers a wealth of features
and capabilities that support simple to complex research and meet your unique research needs. Below
are some key features—for a complete assessment of
your needs, contact us and we’ll
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DESIGN: Save time |
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Familiar interface: Save time on survey design with spell check, text search and replace, drag-and-drop—an interface very similar to Microsoft® Word with no technical skills required. Plus, design wizards walk you through each question making simple to comlex question design a cinch. |
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Templates and cloning: Create survey templates or clone existing surveys to leverage style, object organization, rules, and validation and reduce survey design time while insuring consistency across your projects. |
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Flexible question types + management: Mirror and expand current assessment processes with multiple question types and add, edit, or delete questions and in-progress assessments while maintaining data consistency and integrity. |
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Conditional logic: Customize the assessment experience with complex question branching, calculated variables, and piping which offer a more relevant experience to the respondent, increased responses, and more accurate data. |
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MANAGE: Ensure data integrity + security |
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Project and role-based access:With project-based access, system permissions determine who can design surveys, handle participant information, manage communications, analyze data, and see which projects. |
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Multiple languages: The translation module allows you manage a single assessment in multiple languages while either maintaining a single dataset or regional datasets; the flexibility meets your unique study’s needs. |
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Better data collection: With custom error messages and multi-media files, respondents better understand your questions through contextual or audio guidance—therefore entering cleaner, more accurate data. |
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Managed objects, questions, and surveys: A way to approve, store, organize, and leverage your objects and questions, only DatStat Illume allows you to ensure survey-wide consistency with the object repository—easily save, search and re-use objects across surveys while maintaining object usage history. Plus comment tracking, data dictionary and survey administration enable seamless management across multiple projects. |
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Communication management: With a built-in email tool, create custom invitation, reminder and thank you emails for respondents, which improve the respondent experience and increase response rates. Also, set-and-forget management allows you to pre-schedule your participant communications. |
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COLLECT: Raise
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Remote data collection: Illume’s remote add-on module allows you to collect data in an online or offline environment enabling in-person interviews and other data collection where an Internet connection may not be available or feasible. |
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Participant management: Managing patients and participants across multiple databases and methods is seamless with import/export, respondent data editor, custom or auto-generated authentication IDs, custom fields, and opt-out tracking. When combined with piping, participants get an extremely relevant survey which increases complete rates. |
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Better data collection: With custom error messages and multi-media files, respondents better understand your questions through contextual or audio guidance—therefore entering cleaner, more accurate data. And with test publish, you can be sure you are collecting the right data before you start! |
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Real-time data access: From any computer with an Internet connection, get access to real-time data to view results more quickly and track responses—plus Illume allows you to make survey changes to live surveys without risking the integrity of the dataset or survey. |
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Seamless data management: Data dictionary allows researchers to easily track every variable and how it was measured, while merging and exporting data into programs such as SAS and SPSS allow you to view and analyze data the way you require. |
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ANALYZE: Improve data analysis |
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Advanced filtering + queries: Create filters based on multiple criteria and drill down to subsets of data and create cross-tabular views of your dataset by selecting response options of one or more variables and comparing them with the response of one variable. Also, variable status display shows the active/disabled status of each variable within the query editor which provides valuable insight during analysis. |
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Customizable report templates: Conveniently create reports with text/annotations, tables, style definitions, and charts including 6 chart types. Multiple report types allow you to view and publish data when and how you want including summary, top line, benchmarking, and ad-hoc reports. |
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Cross-survey reporting: Only DatStat offers a convenient way to create unique data sets from already collected data. This gives you the ability to aggregate, segment, and analyze across surveys, saving time while giving you more control over the data analysis process. |
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DatStat Extranet: The DatStat Extranet offers a cost-effective way to securely share project-related information with an unlimited number of project members. Plus, only DatStat Illume allows you to automate the delivery of your reports; define frequency, intervals, data refresh or recurring report delivery—schedule and send reports to unlimited non-Illume users through the DatStat Illume Extranet. |
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