Could Confimit Reportal make web programmers obsolete?
There is a widespread tendency for survey packages to stack the functionality high at the data collection end, then fizzle out into a few simplistic tables, due to lack of the will or the means to do more at the other end. It was a fate that seemed to have condemned Confirmit – one of the best web-based interviewing products around – to a decidedly limp finish on the reporting side. Now, that is no more with the release of Reportal, a cute name for a serious program that allows you to design and manage complex client data extranets and information portals with very little effort. Handling results today is a complex business, as research buyers look to agencies to build these delivery mechanisms. For agencies, this means a huge investment to build bespoke systems, calling on the skills of DP specialists, web programmers, database programmers and web designers. In Reportal, FIRM have created a tool that allows one person to fulfil all these roles and define, in a few hours, complex repor
