Multi-mode Market Research

In any of your research projects, your top priorities are likely to be engaging as many respondents as possible and ensuring that the data you collect is accurate and relevant.

Using the multi-mode capabilities of Confirmit, you can provide your respondents with maximum choice and accessibility, boosting engagement. Whether you offer Web, telephone, mobile, IVR, face-to-face, or paper surveys—or a combination of any of these modes—Confirmit streamlines your data collection processes, enables you to reach more respondents, and gives you the best opportunity to ensure data accuracy.

Engage Survey Respondents

Engage More Respondents

Using Confirmit, you can deliver surveys in a variety of ways: offering a single mode of survey completion to respondents; delivering the same survey in different formats to different groups of respondents; or allowing respondents to switch between available channels to complete the same survey during the course of an interview. These capabilities give you the best opportunity to gain feedback from respondents in a way, and at a time, that suits them best.

 
Provide Client Satisfaction

Provide Client Satisfaction

By offering multi-mode survey capabilities, your organization has the chance to become more flexible and agile in responding to the different needs of your clients. This helps to improve client retention and satisfaction. You also have the ability to deliver a richer survey experience, making it more likely that the responses you collect are accurate, detailed, and complete.

 
Meet Respondent Needs

Meet Respondent Needs

To achieve the best quality survey results, you need to use the methods of communication...

most suited to those you are trying to reach. Confirmit is a robust, scalable, highly-featured platform that allows you to combine advanced Web interviewing with sophisticated survey design to meet the exact needs of your different respondent groups.

Engaging, Feature-Rich Surveys

Engaging, Feature-Rich Surveys

Confirmit’s rich functionality and wealth of features allows you to create online...

surveys that cater to the different needs of your clients and your target respondent groups. Using Confirmit, you can build surveys that include a huge range of question types and layouts, logic to skip irrelevant questions, and multimedia tools to prompt instant reactions.

Quick Tactical Surveys

Quick, Tactical Surveys

Confirmit Express opens up the opportunity for people across your organization to conduct...

Web surveys for ad-hoc projects. It provides access to many of the features of Confirmit Professional, but requires no training and is therefore ideal for quick, tactical surveys and for occasional users.

Instant Survey Feedback

Instant Feedback

Add polls to your Web site or create quick, one-question surveys using both...

Confirmit Professional and Confirmit Express. This feature is ideal for gathering instant snapshots of opinion at very low cost.

Integrate for borader insight

Integrate for Broader Insight

The Web surveys you conduct can be integrated with your clients’ other software...

systems, such as those used for CRM or ERP, to add context to surveys and make them more relevant to the entire business. This also enables you to gather data, such as personal details or previous survey history, allowing you to improve response rates by ensuring respondents don’t have to give you the same information they have already shared.

limitless scalability

Limitless Scalability

The Confirmit platform has handled millions of survey completions to date and the volume...

of completed transactions is rising each year. Whether you run small, focused market research projects or regular, large-scale surveys, Confirmit’s solid software foundations and tested infrastructure can easily handle the pressure. This scalability is also ideal for supporting your growing business, ensuring you can scale up your project scope without affecting the quality of your work.

survey accessibility

Accessibility

Accessibility support enables users with disabilities to respond to surveys, for...

example using assistive technology such as screen readers. Confirmit has made a number of improvements to the rendering of questionnaires that comply with the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative), ensuring broader reach of surveys to obtain more representative research results.

multi-lingual surveys

Multi-Lingual Surveys

Many Confirmit users run large-scale, multi-country or multi-region projects for which...

surveys need to be delivered in a range of languages. The platform supports over 250 languages with our Translator add-on, making it ideal for studies that span geographies.

Centralized Control

Centralized Control

Confirmit Horizons lets you take advantage of sophisticated telephone interviewing...

capabilities from within the Confirmit platform. Our robust CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing) module gives you central control of all your telephone survey operations including call scheduling, supervisory control of interviewers and respondents, quality control monitoring, real-time reporting, and alerting functions.

Survey Scalability

Scalability

The scalable architecture of the Confirmit Horizons platform. combined with our...

per-seat pricing model, makes it simple for you to add new CATI seats as your requirements change. This provides you with the flexibility to cater to peaks in your workload and to support the expansion of your call center as it happens.

Support for distributed Workforces

Support for Distributed Workforces

Manage your central or remote call centers, home workers, and remote supervisors...

from a single source using either Confirmit TCI or MSG’s PRO-T-S predictive dialing platform . This model enables work to be outsourced easily via the Internet, reducing complexity, minimizing your survey costs, and enabling faster turn-around of interviews.

Flexible, cost effective contact centers

Flexible, Cost-Effective Contact Centers

The CATI module of the Confirmit platform supports two dialer solutions: the Confirmit...

TCI autodialer, and the PRO-T-S predictive dialing platform from Marketing Systems Group (MSG). Both solutions are installed on-premise, while the entire Confirmit Horizons platform can reside on-demand. Both dialers support large call center operations and distributed home-worker environments, as well as offering remote site support.

High Performing dialing

High Performance Dialing

Confirmit CATI’s dialer solutions support manual, preview, automatic, and...

predictive dialing options, all controlled at the survey level. Both our Confirmit TCI autodialer and MSG’s PRO-T-S predictive dialing platform can be rolled out in brownfield sites where legacy telephone equipment is used, or in new greenfield locations. Dialers bring you measurable performance improvements while driving quality through call recording, real-time monitoring, and interviewer screen capture technology.

End to End Telephone Research

End-to-End Telephone Research

To maximize the quality and effectiveness of your telephone projects, use the...

Confirmit survey authoring engine to develop your surveys, and then feed your collected data into Confirmit Reportal. The result is an end-to-end CATI solution that delivers accurate, actionable insight to you and your clients.

Going mobile

Going Mobile

Mobile devices now outnumber PCs by a factor of 5 to 1 worldwide. As a result...

embracing mobile survey technologies is becoming increasingly important to the success of research projects that are truly representative of different respondent groups. Confirmit has developed a number of applications for mobile surveys that enable researchers to take advantage of this additional data collection mode.

iphone surveys

iPhone Surveys

Built on the Confirmit Flex framework, our iPhone Surveys interface ensures that...

when a user opens a Confirmit survey on their iPhone, it is automatically opened in an iPhone-friendly format. The survey takes on characteristics that provide a smooth and enjoyable user experience, all of which is handled at the authoring stage to ensure no action is needed by the respondent.

SMS surveys

SMS Surveys

Confirmit’s SMS Survey Extension, built on the Flex framework, allows users to make...

immediate use of SMS surveys to engage with people for ‘in-the-moment’ feedback. Particularly suited to short feedback surveys, such as point-of-sale or customer service experience, SMS surveys enable organizations to get closer to respondents by contacting them in a way that is quick and convenient for them. Integrating SMS into multi-mode research projects also provides more scope to create engaging surveys and gather feedback that is more representative.

Research Everywhere

Research Everywhere

Create face-to-face surveys easily by using the same authoring interface you use for...

creating Web or telephone surveys, and then applying them for use on handheld devices such as PDAs or tablet PCs. Your interviewers can download survey updates whenever they have Internet access, and then reconnect when surveying is complete to synchronize with the Confirmit engine. Synchronization can be automated to reduce the overhead of running face-to-face research programs.

Confirmit CAPI

Confirmit CAPI

The CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) module of Confirmit is an ideal...

solution for field-based research, enabling you to engage with respondents regardless of their location. It provides your field interviewers with the same sophisticated survey capabilities offered by Confirmit’s online solutions, including complex survey logic, multiple language options, and multimedia support for engaging surveys.

Self-Completion Surveys

Self-Completion Surveys

Use the Confirmit Kiosk add-on to Confirmit to gather timely survey responses via stations...

placed at relevant target locations such as hotels, stores, malls, or transport centers. Ideal for conducting product or service testing, Confirmit Kiosk allows you to gather instant market insight at a time and place most convenient for your respondents.

Add More Functionality

Add More Functionality

Confirmit’s powerful CAPI API extends the functionality of your CAPI operations...

allowing typical CAPI management operations to be automated or integrated with third-party systems. It also enables you to communicate more effectively with field interviewers for status updates.

Instant Feedback

Instant Feedback

IVR (Interactive Voice Response) surveys are short, automated telephone surveys...

that elicit instant responses from your target customers. Invite people to take part in an IVR survey at the end of an experience, such as via a shopping receipt, a cinema visit, or at the end of a telephone or Web survey, to gather in-the-moment reactions that can help improve products or customer service.

Supporting the Contact Center

Supporting the Contact Center

IVR surveys provide highly targeted feedback that adds context to conversations...

held between your call center agents and customers calling in. By inviting people to complete a simple IVR survey at the end of their interaction with your contact center, you can pinpoint areas for improvement or reward, in a way that doesn’t use up valuable agent time and at minimal cost.

Actionable Insight

Create Actionable Insight

Directing customers to an IVR survey at the end of a call with your business ensures...

the interaction is fresh in the customer’s mind. This ensures the responses are more accurate and makes them instantly actionable. It also helps to engage your agents, as they see immediate feedback rather than the results of generic, annual performance surveys.

Reach more respondents

Reach More Respondents

Contact via the Internet or telephone is not always the best way to reach your target...

respondents. There are still many applications for which paper questionnaires are the most effective way of gathering feedback—particularly in areas where access to technology is limited, or in instances where you do not have e-mail or telephone details for your customers. Confirmit’s paper scanning technology, Confirmit Horizons Scan, allows you to streamline your paper survey processes and integrate them with your wider research activities.

increase productivity

Increase Productivity

Confirmit Horizons Scan has been proven to increase productivity by supporting...

multiple scanners and handing multiple jobs at any time. As a result, you can process even the largest and most complex paper-based surveys quickly, delivering a high level of service to your clients and giving access to survey results much faster than with manual data entry.

flexible reporting

Flexible Reporting

Confirmit Horizons Scan can process a wide range of documents, from simple...

questionnaires to complex diaries, and then export the data to a variety of formats for sophisticated analysis and reporting. What’s more, the system’s unique open-end image report option lets you see exactly what respondents have written, giving your research a more qualitative feel and adding value for your clients.

integrated projects

Integrated Projects

As part of the Confirmit Horizons platform, our paper scanning solution enables you to...

integrate the data you collect from paper questionnaires with survey results collected via any of our other data collection modes. This gives you the opportunity to report on multi-mode research projects using a single solution, providing collective, project-wide insight.

cost effective solution

Part of A Cost-Effective Solution

Like all Confirmit solutions, Confirmit Horizons Scan has been designed to become a...

part of your overall research function, reducing your total cost of ownership by making your processes more effective and minimizing your investment in hardware, software, and training.