This Story Posted:
May 7th, 1999

[3:58 PM]
Waves In Motion Releases Upgrade To Mac Survey Software

Waves In Motion has announced a major upgrade to The Dragon, their survey software based around FileMaker Pro. The upgrade, version 5, adds new features and improved performance to the software that allows users to set up their own survey and tally the results. According to Waves In Motion: The Dragon is a cross-platform FileMaker Pro solution that lets anyone create, publish, and tabulate a sophisticated online survey to gather immediate feedback on the issues facing them and their organization. Online surveys can provide any business with a simple barometer of their customers' concerns and opinions, and the information they need to make their important decisions. Version 5.0 of The Dragon now allows for an unlimited number of questions in a survey. In addition to the basic question formats supported by earlier versions, The Dragon allows people to respond to questions using a Likert scale. This, for example, allows you to put forward certain opinions and poll whether people agree strongly, agree somewhat, are undecided, disagree somewhat, or disagree strongly. The Dragon now works with either Lasso or the FileMaker Pro web companion, and includes the ability to run internal surveys over your local network or use the same, straightforward interface for the data entry of printed or telephone surveys. The Dragon can even notify you by e-mail as the responses start coming in. Version 5.0 also comes with most everything you need to analyze your results and publish your reports to the Internet, including improved cross-tabulated analysis that can now compare two different data searches side by side, and the ability to export you survey data to StatView, the acclaimed cross-platform application from the SAS Institute that packs data management, statistical analyses, and presentation tools into a single intuitive software package. More information about the product and the new version can be found at the company's web site. Upgrade pricing is provided directly from Waves In Motion. The full version is priced at US$$789.00. Waves in Motion also offers a desktop version of the Dragon for $379.00, a "low-priced alternative for people who do not conduct surveys over the Internet, but do need to enter the data obtained through traditional written or verbal surveys." The company also offers a Desktop Communications Bundle for $899.00, which includes the online and desktop versions of The Dragon and a copy of eMerge, the bulk e-mail merge application from Galleon Software. Waves In Motion