SPSS Data Collection Author Professional

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Create effective surveys with a powerful scripting language

IBM® SPSS® Data Collection Author Professional is a development environment for creating unique and sophisticated surveys. It offers a powerful, survey scripting language, based on Microsoft® technology, for creating surveys of any type or level of complexity for deployment through any channel and in any language.

SPSS Data Collection Author Professional provides capabilities to help you:

Gain advanced survey creation capabilities for sophisticated projects.
Build surveys with complex logic and routings that deliver superior results.
Work collaboratively and efficiently across the enterprise.

Gain advanced survey creation capabilities

Use macros, question templates, and examples at each step of the process to streamline survey creation and reuse surveys.
Create wizards for IBM SPSS Data Collection Author users to ensure consistency and make it easier for survey creators to add more sophisticated logic without the need of technical assistance.
Develop automated market research processes.
Use a single questionnaire to conduct global surveys with a translation utility incorporating more than one hundred languages.

Build surveys with complex logic and routings

Take advantage of advanced conditional and control logic including complex logic expressions, For Each, and looping constructs so that surveys can be as sophisticated as they need to be.
Use survey events to define customized actions such as what happens before a survey begins or ends, or define a consistent action before and after each question, making it easier to complete surveys.
Simulate and debug your web and phone interviewing environments with a powerful testing, test data generation and debugging environment.

Work collaboratively and efficiently

Work seamlessly with IBM SPSS Data Collection Author Desktop and Server, allowing survey scripting experts and business users to collaborate on advanced surveys.
Incorporate and reuse functions and routines to minimize errors and save time.
Use IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services (IBM SPSS Author Professional with Collaboration) to secure, store, search for and retrieve your questions, your logic, or both. This minimizes duplication and maintains standards and consistency across the survey creation process.

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