Quantime™ Suite

Quancept CATI™

• Sophisticated quota management for optimal interviewing productivity
• Efficient, automated sample handling with sample management system
• Advanced automatic data checking for consistency and integrity
• Multilingual surveys, and stopping and restarting interviews
• Easy-to-read screen presentation and highlighted text to minimize input errors
• Live interview monitoring—including joint monitoring so both supervisors and clients can monitor an interview at the same time
• Adapt to changes made while interviewing is in progress, from changes to a respondent's answer or alterations to the script, response list, sample management, or quota screens
• Work at home support, making remote CATI interviewing cost-effective
• Run topline tabulations at any point in the interviewing stage—keeping clients abreast of results in progress
• Direct links with Windows®-based survey design tools

Quanquest™

• Archive previous surveys or parts of surveys, with easy retrieval for re-use
• Facilities for repeated questions and batteries of scales
• Copy or move questions with question numbering and routing adjusted
• Globally change shared response lists in a single operation
• Export scripts for computerized CATI, CAPI, and Web interviewing
• Export formatted paper questionnaires—including scannable forms—to Microsoft® Word
• Export tabulation specifications
• Search and replace text
• Multi-version questionnaires and tracking research
• Multilingual research
• Completely customizable

Quanvert™

• Generate fast, interactive tables
• Use full Boolean logic filters
• Format numbers and table layout to your preferred style
• Derive new variables from existing data
• Easily handle hierarchical (multilevel) data sets
• Create customized breaks from numeric data
• Store and reuse frequent analyses
• Simultaneously analyze multiple data sets while tracking multi-country studies
• Output and view files of respondent level data
• Transfer tables directly to commonly used charting, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation packages
• Generate weighted, unweighted or volumetric tables
• Profile individual respondents
• Manipulate variables with multiple or single answers
• View text of verbatim responses
• Preview and index tables
• Export data smoothly to PASW Statistics*
• Playback recorded verbatim responses

• Operating system:
  • Sun Solaris™ 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, or 9 for Sun UltraSPARC® processors
  • SCO® OpenServer™ 5 for Intel® Pentium® processors
  • HP®-UX® 10.20 or 11i for PA-RISC processors
  • Red Hat® Linux® 7.2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0
• Server hardware:
  • Your CPU selection should be based on cost, number of interviewers the server needs to support, and potential for growth:
    • SCO OpenServer or Linux: Pentium-class processor running at 200MHz or faster.
    • Sun Solaris: Sun Ultra Series processor or faster
    • HP-UX operating system: HP 9000 server or faster.
  • Console monitor: Monochrome or color
  • Tape backup device: RAID disk drives to back up your data
  • Memory: 20 MB minimum for 50 interviewers. View memory recommendations to support various configurations.
  • Modem: Should be connected to a phone line so that it is accessible by SPSS Support for dial-up assistance.
  • Network adapter and USB: Optional, but strongly recommended
• Terminal hardware:
  • Terminal servers: Either multi-port internal cards or separate terminal server boxes etherlinked to the UNIX machine. We suggest the latter for greater flexibility.
  • Terminals: Either dumb terminals (for example a Wyse 60 terminal) or PCs with Telnet software.
• Minimum free disk space: 2 GB with separate partitions for the operating system and users/production.
• Minimum RAM: 16 MB
• System administration: A knowledgeable UNIX® system administrator. Your hardware vendor may have names of sites offering training.
• C compiler user licenses: Needed to compile the sample management system (SMS):
  • The GNU C compiler supplied on the Quancept CATI CD-ROM is recommended for all operating systems
  • Sun UltraSPARC processors: Sun C compiler or the GNU C compiler
  • SCO® OpenServer® 5: OpenServer Development System. Do not order the OpenServer Development Kit, as the compiler contained in the kit is a UnixWare® compiler and will not work with SPSS Inc. software.
  • HP 9000 servers: HP-UX C compiler
• Memory Requirements

• Operating system:
  • MS-DOS 3.0 or later (version 5.0 or above recommended)
  • Microsoft® Windows® 3.1 or later
  • Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 or XP
• Hardware:
  • PC using 80386 microprocessor or higher
  • Hard disk
  • High density (1.44 MB) disk drive
  • VGA, EGA, XGA or any video adapter supported by Microsoft Windows. We recommend a screen setting of 800x600 or better.
  • Mouse compatible with Microsoft Windows or any other compatible pointing device.
• Minimum free disk space: 4 MB (8 MB is strongly recommended).

• Operating system:
  • HP-UX 10 or 11
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP
  • Microsoft MS-DOS® 3.3 or later (requires HIMEM.SYS 2.78 or later and at least 4MB XMS memory configured)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or 4
  • Linux 7.2 for Intel
  • SCO OpenServer 5
  • Sun(SM) SolarisT 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 or 10
• Quantum Unix is a 32 bit application, however Quantum DOS is a 16 bit application and does not run on a 64 bit application

• Operating system:
  • Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 for Workgroups
  • MS-DOS version 3.0 or later (version 5.0 or above is recommended)
• Hardware
  • PC using 80386 microprocessor or higher
• Minimum free disk space: 6 MB (8 MB strongly recommended)
• Math co-processor (optional but recommended as it will enhance speed significantly)
• Quanvert dongle, otherwise known as the security key

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