She had nothing but praise for Quantime and the support they had provided to her when using their Web Bureau service. It essentially allows you to call up and sift through large volumes of pre-produced tables in almost any format. Once again, it was at BMRB International that I found someone experimenting with this tool. DP head, Phil Torode explained how they had tried using it on a survey where the topline report alone ran to 500 pages. This then formats it automatically, creating an index, table of contents and all the various links on screen that web users expect.
Speed is the essence.
When people talk of speed they often think in terms of delivering the results as fast as possible. But it is the speed of access the information once you have got it that is more important. Here, something that is key for the end user is that they do not need to have any specialist software. If you give them Quanvert or Pulsar, they need a license and they need to learn how to use it. This is because the software they are using is a standard web browser such as Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Explorer.