Features

This chart identifies the various features built into the Foresight software products.

1. Overview		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
	Set up a simple survey in minutes
	Publish online yourself with no IT support
	Email survey address to all participants
	View results the same day
	Incorporate results into PowerPoint or Word
	Auto generate reports for 10, 100, or even 10,000 department managers
	Provide 10,000 + managers ability to view their multiple "balance scorecard" measures at the same time (e.g., customer, employee, financial)
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2. Support		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
	User manual online
	Email questions to tech support
	Phone tech support (1-800-252-6150)
	Onsite training workshops
	Online Survey Masters Books
	Experienced survey professionals available to provide support

3. Survey Design		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
A. Question types
Closed ended	Multiple choice single selection (Choose one)
	Multiple choice multiple selection (Choose many)
	Rank order
Open ended	Choose one and specify
	Choose many and specify
	Essay questions (general)
	Essay questions (item)
	Essay questions (by category)
	Essay questions (by category positive/negative)
B. Survey Design Features
	Spell check
	Survey templates
	360° capabilities
	Question and scale libraries (general and company specific)
	Ability to save customized questions and scales into company library			(Shared)	(Shared)
	Ability to ask questions to certain groups (i.e., department, job levels)
	Ability to combine questions to generate category scores
	Customize text font/color
	Use of company logo/backgrounds
	Use of graphics by item			?	?
	Use of design templates for backgrounds
	Customize sequence of screens / questions
	Customize instruction and thank you pages
C. Language Support
	Enter your own translations
	Display survey in multiple languages
	Collect open ended comments in multiple languages
	Create comment reports in multiple languages
	Create reports in multiple languages
D. Response Validation
	Required answer
	Individual rank selection
E. Survey Functionality
	Skip patterns
	Multi-page surveys
	Redirect respondents to web page following survey
	Automatically close browser following survey submission
	Piping from answers to closed ended questions
	Piping from answers to open ended questions
	Save and continue later from last question answered
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4. Survey Modalities		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
	Web-based
	Fax	*	*	*	*
	Paper	*	*	*	*
	Telephone	*	*	*	*
	* Additional handling fee

5. Survey & Response Management		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
A. Publishing Surveys
Closed ended	Automatic web publishing
B. Survey Management
	Run survey in test mode
	Stop date/time stamping
	Set maximum number of responses
	Duplication control through user identification
	User id and password security
	Tracks survey participation real time
	Tracks participation by department, customer or subgroup
	Collects data anonymously
	Collects shipping information and tracks outgoing / incoming shipments
C. Survey Announcement
	Send email invitations with mail-merge capabilities
	Merge unique respondent logins into email invitations

6. Response Collection		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
	Collects results from paper, fax, or telephone surveys and import directly to the database
	Automatically saves results collected via web into database
	Collects open ended comments in multiple languages
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7. Reporting & Analysis		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
A. Report Features
	All reports available via the web
	Cross data by one or more questions/demographics. All reports based on user defined data cuts.
	Ability to look at results by each question.
	Ability to look at results by each question on one report.
	Statistical significance testing
	View/download results by others in the organization.
	View results compared to up to 3 years of history
	Compare results to normative data
	Compare results to internal benchmarks
	Export data into .txt format
	Reports available for matrix organizational structures
	Reports available in foreign languages (Latin 1 characters)
	Auto generate/store selected reports by various levels of organization/customer/district etc.
	Auto generate reports for 10, 100, or even 10,000+ department managers
	Auto generate reports by all or some demographics for all or some subgroups
	Add custom questions to reports for all or some subgroups
	Provide 10,000+ managers ability to view their multiple "balance scorecard" measures at the same time (i.e., customer, employee, financial)
	Create a Dashboard with red, green, yellow indicators of results for 10,000 managers across 10 different balance scorecard measures
B. Report Types
	-Classic (response count, percentage)
	-Graphic (bar, line, pie)
	-Data table in Excel format
	-Comments by Respondent
	-Comments by Question
	-Title Page & Survey Participation
	-Summary of Strengths & Opportunities for Improvement
	-Number of Items Above, Same or Below Comparison Groups
	-High to Low Rank Report
	-Category Summary Report
	-Detailed Item Report
	-Gap Analysis
	-Top 10 items
	-Bottom 10 items
	-Demographic
	-360 reports
C. Adhoc reports
	Create customized reports/charts on data for importing into outside software (i.e., powerpoint, word)
	Create new groups by re-cutting data "on the fly"
	Create customized reports "on the fly" that are saved online
	Allow 10,000 leaders access to online report center to create adhoc reports

8. Action Planning/Best Practices		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
	Allow 10,000 leaders to create/store/ search best practices based on survey items or categories
	Allow 10,000 leaders to create/store action plans based on survey results
	Allow 10,000 leaders to monitor progress on action plans through 3 types of status reports

9. Service Features		Pulse	Insight	Enterprise	Dashboard
A. Hosting
	Surveys hosted on servers managed & maintained by SSI (host)
	Servers monitored 24/7
	Unique URL for each survey administered
B. Security
	4 levels of security access; manager, administrator, respondent, coordinator	2 levels: administrator; report viewer
	Secure access via username/password combination to survey results
	Multiple levels of security available for respondent to gain access to survey
C. Online Support Guides for Managers
	Survey guides provided -Administration -Data interpretation -Feedback Meetings -Action Planning
	Online Support Guides -Accessing reports -Adhoc -Best Practices