To gain the greatest value from your survey research projects, you need to efficiently create and distribute reports so that internal and external clients can quickly grasp the significance of your findings—and turn that insight into action.
Desktop Reporter, which is part of SPSS’ Dimensions suite of survey research products, helps you do this—quickly and easily. Desktop Reporter is easy for new or occasional information consumers to use. But it also offers features that enable experienced analysts to create customized tables.
It supports the creation of many different types of tables from local data. You can create summary tables, aggregations, and tables containing respondent-level information. These can be embedded in reports so that your results are readily available to others.
A complete tabulation tool
Using Desktop Reporter, you can access data from any Dimensions survey research product, as well as from Triple-S™, Quancept™, Quanvert™, Surveycraft™, SPSS for Windows®, and ADODB-based databases and log files.
With its intuitive user interface, Desktop Reporter makes it easy for your organization’s users to carry out core, repeated tasks. It offers numerous features that make report creation faster and easier, and the end results more meaningful. You can quickly and easily:
- Locate tables you wish to view, edit, or use as models for new tables
- View variables as a “tree,” enabling you to move, hide, and rearrange them; and also in a list view that can be sorted in various ways
- “Band” numeric variables to make tables more understandable
- Manage the elements of a variable differently in different tables
- Show table titles and descriptions, a list of the variables used, and the filters and weights applied, so that report users clearly understand what they are viewing
In addition to being able to print tables directly from Desktop Reporter, you can also export data and tabulations in a number of different formats. So you’ll be able to deliver professional-looking results. You can:
- Export tables to Microsoft® Office applications and as text or HTML
- Build custom chart types in Microsoft Excel® and use them within Desktop Reporter to control the exact format and layout of each chart
- Export tables and reports to Microsoft PowerPoint®, Microsoft Word®, or HTML
- Distribute table definitions to executives or others who do not have time to construct their own tabulations. This capability enables them to hide or rearrange table elements to suit their own information requirements.
If you are interested in creating and sharing tables with others online, look into the capabilities of mrTables software from SPSS.
A new industry standard
Desktop Reporter is a powerful alternative to Quanvert, one of the most widely used desktop analysis tools in the market research industry. By combining Quanvert’s strengths with the power of Dimensions’ technology and interface, Desktop Reporter can support your demands today—and well into the future.