FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 23, 2000
Raosoft,
Inc. releases Raosoft EZSurvey 2000 for the Internet, a forms generator for web
sites and email distribution, with new automatic Style templates to display in
advance the look and feel of different HTML format choices, a new Preview, and
more. For generic forms, feed-back, or traditional surveys.
Shipping date: October 23, 2000nterprise application!
Contact person to obtain an evaluation copy, or for questions:
Catherine McDole Rao, CEO Raosoft, Inc.
SEATTLE, September
20, 2000—Raosoft EZSurvey 2000 for the Internet is version 4, a
more advanced version of this easy 32-bit electronic data collection program
that lets end users build forms or questionnaires on web sites or distribute
them over the Internet, intranets, or any standard Email system. Design
is even simpler and faster, with more automatic wizards. The price remains the
same, $399 to an end user for an unlimited use license. EZSurvey 2000 extends
Web site design and distribution options.
Shipping date
for Raosoft EZSurvey 2000 for the Internet is October 23. EZSurvey is a 32-bit program for use with
Win95/98/Me and Windows NT. The program requires four megabytes of disk
space. It is written in C++. The number of questions and records is unlimited.
The innovative AutoStyle Template lets you try out different look and feel
styles on your forms to see which you prefer, and lets enterprise users design
from a common standard. Default templates come with EZSurvey and of course you
can add your own template compositions to the Style library. This fast display in
advance is a major advantage over FrontPage or Adobe PageMill.
You can now design your content model separately from the web appearance,
choosing the display at any time.
After a
questionnaire is designed and posted on a web site, responses are immediately
saved into the DBF EZSurvey database. For email, the questionnaire is sent out
in text format, and when the data returns Raosoft Postmaster automatically
saves the data into the DBF database file. Analysis and reports are immediately
available from EZSurvey itself, from the Raosoft EZReport or SURVEYWin
program, or from any DBF-standard reporting package. If ASCII format is wanted,
the data can be exported from EZSurvey in fixed, tab-delimited, or
comma-delimited format. The Raosoft EZReport program costs $299, and the SURVEYWin program $495. New users
wanting to use EZReport for more advanced analysis have a total cost of
$399 EZSurvey + $299 EZReport = $698. End users may also export
their data to any alternative reporting software that is based on DBF or ASCII
format.
The interface is
even easier to use. Major new features and improvements include:
• The AutoStyle Template discussed above, for choosing your web
interface look and feel, and for fast global editing. Select from EZSurvey
templates or build your own.
• A new HTML
editor is included, using either Netscape Composer or Front Page, whichever is
installed on the computer. The end user does not need to know HTML.
• The Preview
mode allows you to view final web page formats and multi-pages without
requiring web posting before viewing, as formerly. This feature adds speed to
design.
• An
automatic Table wizard lets you do sophisticated tables with headers. The Table
design feature gives you flexibility to group related questions compactly.
• Email now
has Mailmerge for bulk mailing, pulling from the address book.
• You may
attach the HTML form into an email message. The responses can be sent either to
your web server or the Raosoft server, which forwards to your email address.
• After the
respondent fills out a web server form, the server can email the data to the administrator.
This option is useful for browsers not supporting mailto utilities.
• One
integrated script program, ezs.cgi, now is provided
for the server, in place of the three separate programs used by EZSurvey 99.
This reduces error and is easier.
• More
validation options are included for the number and Rank Order question types.
• The new
`piping' feature allows previously answered responses to display in a later
question. Piping is available for all question types.
• A detailed
Query is now included in the Report section for data subset selection.
Raosoft EZSurvey
2000 includes support for both posting questionnaires on web sites and for
distribution by email. The email distribution can be Internet email by POP3 and
SMTP, or by any standard network email such as Exchange, cc:Mail,
GroupWise, Eudora or Lotus Notes. EZSurvey 2000 includes instant
preconfigured statistical templates, so that end users may analyze the returned
data. The EZSurvey report templates are included in the EZSurvey price.
The report templates include pie and bar chart analysis as well as tables and
can be printed in color. You may also share results by posting them on a web
page, by saving in PDF format and viewing in Adobe Acrobat, or by using
Raosoft's free UShow viewer, an .exe that captures specified screens for later
display.
EZSurvey 2000 also has a professional version, EZSurvey 2000 Pro,
that provides ODBC connectivity. It adds improved support for Oracle database,
as well as continuing to support SQL Server, Sybase, Access, and IBM DB/2. A
major new feature is that the data can be stored in both the EZSurvey DBF
database as well as the ODBC database, for those wanting Raosoft analysis and
reports. Price is $1500.
References to
contact:
Laurel
Barbour, Boeing Aerospace Operations, Network Administrator,
Ed Chambers, IRS,
Office of Organizational Effectiveness, Strategic Human Resources,
Jim Woodmansee,
Screenshots are available on the Raosoft Web site at http://www.raosoft.com/ezsurvey or select the EZSurvey button on the front page of www.raosoft.com.