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"With Blue, survey creation, distribution, collection, collation, report generation and dissemination, are all conducted electronically. Not only is this good for the environment, but each step can be integrated with your authentication system to provide security. With Blue confidential reports remain safely on your servers. This ensures that reports containing sensitive information about consumer reaction to your new product line will not be accidentally forgotten in a coffee shop or fished out of a dumpster."

Blue/Surveys Frequently Asked Questions

What does Blue/Surveys do? Blue fills a long felt need in today’s marketplace. It is a 100% web-based enterprise information gathering and analysis software which is deployed and owned by your organization.

What kind of surveys can I implement with Blue/Surveys? Blue is very adaptable and highly customizable. It was developed to facilitate the implementation of many types of information gathering:

  • Employees - climate surveys, exit interviews, training needs assessments, employee appraisals, policy communication, staff evaluations
  • Customers - customer satisfaction surveys, market research, marketing communication, evaluations of products and services
  • Others - teacher/class evaluations, student, citizens, and consumers surveys

Is Blue a hosted (ASP) or fully integrated solution? Blue may be offered as a hosted (ASP) service. Alternatively, Blue may be installed within your IT premises, allowing you to own and have full control over critical data from feedback collection activities. By integrating Blue with your organization's data stores, you facilitate and expedite the distribution and collection of surveys; more importantly, you can correlate past results, with present results, against all other criteria linked to the respondents' profiles.

Does Blue/Surveys require any plug ins or client desktop applications? Blue is a fully web-based application. It allows remote and seamless administration for survey management, implementation, distribution and analysis. Feature rich, with no requirement for plug-ins. Server-based products are perfect for enterprise-wide installation – your IT department won’t have to touch a single workstation. Any authorized user, technical or non-technical, can take advantage of Blue by simply launching their web browser.

How different is Blue/Surveys from other similar software? Blue is a 100% web-based application which allows you to create surveys or processes on the fly. It allows you to invite tens of thousands of respondents in a timely manner. You may require the respondents to authenticate against your enterprise's Directory Service. You can store the data from your surveys in Relational Databases including SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. Blue provides you with advanced tools to analyze the results.

Most importantly, imagine one application which gives every authorized person in your organization, seamless access to your enterprise's IT infrastructure; which creates a wealth of intelligence data, allowing them to consistently make the right decisions.

What is wrong with intelligence information today? Companies use sophisticated tools such as drill down capabilities, predictive analysis, executive dashboards, and advanced reporting. The limitations with current methods are that they give executives a limited picture of the present situation. There is no information on the issues experienced by the two most important assets in an organization, the employees and the customers. Without this, executives are unable to accurately forecast future performance.

Who needs Blue/Surveys? The quick answer to this question is everybody. Any organization needs to gather information or risk extinction. HR departments need to run annual evaluations and exit surveys. Sales departments need to know what customers think of their products and services. Universities need teacher and course evaluations. Government agencies need to know if the citizenry is satisfied with their services. The list goes on. Every organization needs to gather information to succeed. Blue empowers people to gather the information they need to make the right decisions, right away. Blue is an asset to any organization.