Voxco Online Software

Pros

i appreciate field management the ease of setup and deploy surveys reporting tools is easy and we can save a model of it

Cons

the commande center is only compatible with internet explorer 8 we cant use it with chrome for exemple or in a mobile device.

creation of market research for clients.

data processing in several formats.

creating questionnaires

Pros

from my experience with Voxco CAWI & CATI:

Flexibility to create survey

Powerful and more detailed reporting

Quality of support help

possibility to create complex quests

support for multiple data formats for exported files

the highly flexible quota system

Cons

from my experience with Voxco CAWI & CATI:

the difficulty of creating a nice ergonomic questionnaire

Use HTML4 instead of HTML5 which makes it difficult to integrate new components.

the builder "DESIGN" is not well optimized

the worst is the incompatibility with other browsers Chrome, Firefox

Can't think of one.

I have used Confirmit (18 years), SPSS dimensions (3 years), Survey writer (5 years), two different in-house proprietary software packages and Voxco is by far the worst.

Pros

Not much.

Extremely simple surveys can be done quickly.

Importing a second language into an existing survey can be fast.

Cons

It is time-consuming to program anything beyond the most simple of surveys in it.

It lacks many basic features.

Their documentation is terrible, poorly written, completely lacks examples, and is poorly indexed. It seems that a search of the online documentation will either yield so many results it's impossible to find what you are looking for or no results at all.

Many of the "features" do not work.

You can't search past projects effectively. If you know you have similar questions in past studies it is difficult to copy them. You need to manually find the survey, find the section, find the question then drag it into your new survey. At which point Voxco only copies the question itself and not any logic (unless all question numbers and variables match). Voxco makes it impossible to "pin" a second survey in the development environment.

Validation is very time-consuming. You need to create separate questions with your error messages, then set that error message question, pipe in the value of the error message question into your original question, then redirect back to the original is the error message condition is true. Ridiculous.

It is difficult to re-use answer lists unless they are 100% identical.

There is no inline filtering or masking. You need to make separate masking questions all the time. Again adding programming time.


I had more cons but ran out of space but you get the idea.

Pros

the ability to deal with complexe studies and multicanal (cawi,capi,cati) ease of use for non IT people .

Cons

the command center is not compatible with all browsers only IE8 i understand tha they use active X but even with IE 9 or 11 it doesnt work with the way we want.

Technology driven data collection software
Flexible
Feature rich
Tight phone/web/online integration
Constant updates for improvements and new features

A4S has enabled us to provide additional (automated) services to our clients such as:
- copy of survey responses delivered via email
- certificate of completion delivered via email

Really appreciate the level of customer service experienced with A4S!

Our company has been using A4S since 2011; it has been a good choice and continues to meet our changing needs.

We use the software for CATI and CAWI surveys and it works well.
It's easy to set up the surveys in the Designer, and the sample management software is a useful and powerful tool.
Support from Vancouver can be a bit difficult because of the time difference, but the Australian team always do their best to help out when we hit a problem.

We're doing business with Voxco since 15 years, they are getting better with time.

Having the mixed mode option is a great idea but we have run into a lot of obstacles in using it. First we had to wait almost a month to be upgraded to the new version. Then when we tried using it ourselves and contacted support for help, their solutions were not correct. It took more than 3 months to be able to launch a survey using this method and it still does not work perfectly to fit our needs.