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BPC Survey Manager ™ |
Contact: Jonathan Bishop Mob: 0411 404 483 Ph: 03 9525 7066 www.bishopphillips.com |
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Windows Management Client
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Overview: BPC SurveyManager is a powerful
web/HTML rules based forms engine that creates, distributes, manages,
analyses and reports dynamically generated html and paper surveys and can
even be used to build and manage general web sites. The system is available as part of the BPC
RiskManager suite, individually or as a hosted internet service. The name does not do this application
justice. With a large range of
built-in forms, components and input control capabilities it is versatile
enough to be used to create an entire website, smart enough to hold
interactive rules driven natural language “conversations” with users, and
simple enough that a survey can go from design to live in less than 15
minutes. It produces reports instantly
by changing a couple of parameters, and supports complex hierarchical
organisational structures such as a state with regions and schools or a
corporate group, with divisions, departments and business units, or a
university with faculties, schools, and departments, etc. Originally designed
to allow an organisation of 70,000+ employees to collect compliance checklist
data in the last few minutes of a working day it was designed from the outset
to be very fast and scale to tens of thousands of simultaneous users. The system will happily work on a laptop,
or a large server farm. For example, the
system has been used for many years by the Victorian Government to provide the
annual Learner’s Satisfaction Survey covering thousands of students in the
state of Consisting of two
engines – the maintenance engine and the survey engine, BPC SurveyManager is
delivered with multiple front ends: ·
Survey Creation & Management: o
A simplified pure web/html survey management
client for general use o
A powerful full featured windows application
survey management client for general use ·
Survey Delivery & Response o
A stateless ISAPI dll hosted on MS Windows
IIS (any version) delivering dynamically constructed HTML pages providing
surveys and reports. Example Real world
applications: ·
Compliance surveys and control checklists
(built in management of repeating surveys, archiving of responses,
auto-locking options on completion) ·
Marketing surveys ·
HTML & rules driven application
configuration interfaces ·
User response & rules driven training
systems ·
Learning management system for student
testing with prerequisite control (built in learning management capabilities
allow for testing and marking and checking of prerequisites of students) ·
Content management system for a web site
with dynamically generated page content based on rules and user selections ·
360 degree HR surveys (dedicated
capabilities for support of 360degree survey designs) ·
Management and board performance report
production using surveys as templates (switch between data entry and
read-only modes with a single command) ·
Performance audits and customer satisfaction
surveys ·
Employee induction and exit interview
recording ·
Online job and tender applications You
can get BPC SurveyManager today by completing this
enquiry form, or emailing sales@bishopphillips.com |
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Web Management Client
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Key Features: §
Optional integration
with BPC RiskManager. §
Optional integration with the Winnfield
& Waisman* Virtual World Learning System in Second Life**
for remote training virtual campus management. §
Unlimited organisations, survey managers, respondents, with configurable
access rights, and unit and
group reporting/analysis. §
Surveys work on any
HTML 4+ web browser as well as PDA’s §
Distribute surveys across hundreds
of organisations with organisation level customisation but central question list control
means survey look can be customised at the lowest reporting unit level, but
question content centrally controlled. § Surveys can contain a huge range of input controls for radio buttons, lists, drop lists, menus, buttons, links, login, password fields, text, file upload, surveys within surveys, clickable image maps, pop-up hints, custom defined, and many more. § WYSIWYG input controls for multi-line text input. § Change a single property in a question definition to instantly change response lists between lists, drop lists, radio buttons, normal buttons, link lists, menus, etc § Set responses to collect single or multiple responses per question §
Server side or client side
edit checks (range, type, alha-numeric content input validation) §
Embed anything
displayable on a web browser in a survey question. §
Change input and response
types and survey content/questions after publication (in fact any part of the
survey, at any time!) §
Layout and configure the
survey web pages and questions in any layout displayable in a web browser §
Automatically collect user
advised ‘importance’ or weighting ratings for each question in a
survey if desired by checking one flag §
Mandatory or
non-mandatory questions § Display different questions to different users for the same organisation, survey, survey instance, etc. § Windows client supports a distributed database architecture allowing development, testing and analysis of surveys on a laptop and transfer of data between databases. § Optionally store documents and files in the surveymanager database for retrieval as part of a web page/survey, etc (saves enabling write privileges to local drives) § Automatic print friendly versions of each page, or an entire multipage survey. § Optionally use CSS style sheets for layout and page behaviour, or use the built in layout tags instead §
Share questions across
multiple surveys in multiple organisations §
Optionally allow users to revisit
and revise survey responses multiple times §
Run the same survey each week to the
same people (uses survey instances) §
Each response keyed by organisation,
survey, survey instance, question, question fork (used in 360 degree
surveys), and user. §
Separation of concepts of survey
creation, distribution and publishing §
Define exception ranges
for response and track follow up actions. §
Dynamically generates
survey pages based on organisation, survey
question, survey page, user, user properties, previous responses to current
and previous surveys or external application tests, plus more. §
Rules engine allows for rules
based page construction and includes built a in natural language parser
to process unstructured text responses, as well as tests for conventional
conditional operators for equal to, greater than, less than, like, contains,
etc. §
Multicolumn surveys. §
Build surveys of surveys. Eg.
Put one survey in a left handle panel that is a menu of surveys a user can
select, and display in the right hand panel each survey selected in the left
hand panel. §
Build survey questions
with responses from other (or the same) surveys embedded in the question text
as lists, statistical analysis, full dynamically built sentences, and more. §
Build surveys with automatic
annotations based on responses (allows web pages that automatically
provide running advice or commentary based on user responses) §
Build surveys that allow for reviewer’s
comments on other user’s responses. § Build surveys in both structured “question – answer” layouts and unstructured report layouts, with paragraphs and responses embedded in the text. (Allows templated reports with mixed survey data, analysis and management report commentary). §
Build quizes and tests that allow for
automated marking. § Build ‘homing’ survey pages that continually redisplay the same page or fork to other pages and return to the original homing page on completion. § Build dynamically generating surveys with unlimted questions per page, while still enabling the use of rules to select the questions displayed – no single question to a page surveys needed |
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Example Surveys
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Key Features Continued: §
Plug in libraries allow
real-time two way interfacing to external systems §
Built in archiving of survey responses §
Instant, real time report
production with many options per question including,
responses, response counts, responder names, percentage response breakdown,
graphical response display, etc. §
Optionally allow unrestricted
automatic (anonymous) or restricted (invited) survey access. §
Upload recipients from csv
(comma separated) files, export responses to XL and database readable XML
database format §
Distinguishes between
online and paper based survey responses §
Optionally create
surveys directly from marked up MS Word documents (Note – dynamic
capabilities are not supported with MS Word documents) §
Mouse over sensing controls for hints and help fields §
Built in randomising news server. §
Manages organisations, organisation
structures, surveymanagers, respondents, guests, etc §
Generates emailed
invitations /reminders (any number with
changing text based on the number of invitations sent to the individual). §
Timestamps survey commencement and completion § Manages Distributed databases and data replication § All data stored internally in 2byte character sets § Works with http or https. § Really simple to install. § Survey engine is completely stateless. § Connects to as many separate databases as your system can hold. §
….And lots more
The
survey engine is powerful enough to run the annual state
wide web based student satisfaction survey conducted by the Victorian
Department of Education and covering more than 450 institutions and thousands
of students each year. With offices in Melbourne ( |
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BPC SurveyManager Technology Requirements BPC
SurveyManager will run on MS Windows 98se, 2000, XP, 2003, ·
If running on 64bit Windows, MS
WoW is required. ·
SQL Server 2000 / 2005 / 2008
or MSDE 2000 / SQL Express. · MDAC 2.8 (standard with all windows OS’s after Windows XP · MS IIS 5+ (IIS6+ preferred) The minimum PC
hardware is 500Mb RAM and 16 Mb disk space for the survey engine, 20mb disk
space for the browser based management client
and 20mb disk space for the windows management client. If the survey engine will generate
graphical report components a reasonable graphics card on the server is
required as images are dynamically generated rather than stored. Surveys response databases can grow quite
large where thousands of responders are involved so production installations
should allow for significant database growth. The survey
engine is stateless and will support server farms. Corporate and Systems Credits Bishop Phillips
Consulting was founded in 1995 as Stanton Consulting Partners and
incorporated as Bishop Phillips Consulting Pty Ltd in 1997. Bishop Phillips Consulting is a software
developer, incubator of management science technologies, business recovery
advisor and general consulting firm specialising in governance and
performance improvement processes and systems with offices in *
Winnfield & Waisman is a division of
Bishop Phillips Consulting that builds virtual world immersive environments
and systems primarily in Second Life**.
Its flag ship products are virtual world learning systems, virtual
world campuses and meeting spaces and the various technologies and
infrastructure required to run training courses and meetings and manage ‘crowds’
in immersive environments. ** Second Life
is the Trade Mark of Linden Research, Windows 98se, 2000, XP,
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BishopPhillips Consulting (
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BishopPhillips Consulting Pty Ltd Lvl
1, 3 Meredith St. Elwood VIC 3184 Mail:
ABN: 97 078 703 036 |
BishopPhillips Consulting Pty Ltd |
Contact: Jonathan Bishop Mob: +61 411 404 483 Ph: +61 3 9525 7066 |