Dear ODK users and evaluators,
I would like to announce the public availability of SurveyCTO, a
commercially-hosted, supported survey platform based on ODK. You can learn
all about the product and sign up for a 30-day free trial at
www.surveycto.com.
SurveyCTO was built to make secure, high-quality electronic data-collection
as simple as possible. It began piloting in September of last year, and it
is now in-use in over a dozen household surveys. Key features include:
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Securely hosted server environment with databases mirrored 24x7 across
multiple U.S. data centers, with backups restorable to any point in the
last month. -
Extensive online help with lots of sample forms.
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On-device automatic backups to protect against SD card failures.
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Ability to automatically collect data about survey administration,
including "random audio audits," where parts of surveys are secretly
recorded for quality-control purposes. -
Simple wizards for building constraint and relevance expressions, and for
testing constraints. -
Automatic output of Stata templates that label and merge data, with
support for applying corrections to collected data. -
Automatic output of mail-merge templates and execution of mail merges on
data export, so that nicely-formatted Word versions of the data can be
reviewed for quality-control purposes. -
Streamlined client software for two-click download, export, and
processing of new data, complete with support for configurations that
require decryption of data on cold-room computers. -
Integrated XLSForm support so that you can upload Excel-based form
definitions directly onto the server.
You can find a more complete list of features at www.surveycto.com. There,
you can also take a brief tour of the product and sign up for a 30-day free
trial. If you give the product a try, you will see how we took the best of
the ODK platform, simplified and streamlined the user experience, and
extended the feature-set to support greater security and quality-control.
Please feel free to contact me at crobert@surveycto.com. We are very open
to suggestions from the ODK community, and we are continually improving the
product.
Thanks,
Chris