SPSS Dimensions Desktop Author v4.5

With SPSS Dimensions Desktop Author, you can build surveys easier! It’s crucial for you to understand people’s attitudes and preferences in order to provide the products and services they want most. A common challenge, however, is creating surveys that capture these insights — let alone surveys that people will actually want to complete. Desktop Author ushers in a new way of working. This new addition to SPSS' Dimensions suite of survey research products enables you to create sophisticated surveys with a professional look and feel. Using its simple, intuitive interface, anyone can develop visually appealing surveys of any length, right from the desktop. Building your survey is easy-it's similar to creating a PowerPoint® presentation.

With Desktop Author, you can add value and efficiency to all your survey research projects

Improve response rates by creating surveys that respondents want to complete
Get into the field faster and with fewer errors, collect insight efficiently, and distribute results to decision-makers faster
Eliminate the need to maintain separate surveys for different languages and modes
Create surveys faster

Do you typically rely on several different software programs to create surveys? If so, you’ll discover that Desktop Author simplifies the survey creation process by providing you with all the tools you need to create your survey. For example, you can:

Write different types of survey questions directly in Desktop Author
Compose questions and instructions in any language
Manage languages and custom phrasings
Create and manage survey logic and routings
Test the entire survey or preview a specific question or group of questions—without having to publish it to a server
You’ll also save time with Desktop Author because you can create your survey once, and then use it to collect feedback in any mode. Deploy your survey over the Web, by telephone, face-to-face, through mobile collection devices—whatever suits your needs.

Save time and plan for the future
When you use Desktop Author, you can use the local library to store your important information, such as:

Pre-made questions
Survey templates
Entire surveys
By storing your crucial information, you can ask exactly the same set of questions in the same way each time you deploy your survey.