Selected Solutions: Research and Development Projects

Raosoft, Inc. has developed a large library of component programs that can be combined to create a new program to answer a specific application's requirements. We are specialists in the integration of our products to produce new applications that have power and robustness, and produce a high return on investment to the customer. Some samples of web surveys and other web-based applications are described below. These are based on our powerful Raosoft software family of products.

Organizational Climate survey

• Chief of Staff of the Air Force biennial world wide Organizational Climate survey, probably the largest web surveys ever done on the web. It is deployed every two years, the first electronic one provided by Raosoft, Inc. in 1997, the first web survey one in 1999. A sophisticated administration module was added for the web-based 2001/2002 Climate Survey, with comprehensive web based reports retrievable by end units on demand. The last Climate Survey rolled out on time in October, 2003 and is filled with new, advanced features to make entry easier and remove human error. The next Climate Survey is scheduled for fall, 2005.
  
  
• Click here for an example of Climate Reports.
  
  Jan 05, 2006 2005 Air Force Climate Survey in Federal Computer Week The Air Force is analyzing 306,000 responses to the most comprehensive online survey about workforce concerns that it has ever conducted. Officials expect to complete the analysis in February and make the survey results available to all Air Force leaders to improve their units’ morale and operational efficiency. Air Force employees, supervisors, managers, executives and commanders voluntarily answered the worldwide survey, which the Air Force conducted online between Oct. 1 and Nov. 23, 2005, using Raosoft’s Web-based InterForm survey software. This Air Force Climate Survey marks the sixth iteration of the biennial Chief of Staff of the Air Force Climate Survey, begun in 1996.
  
  
• Click here for related news articles from Government Computer News and Federal Computer Week on the Organizational Climate survey.
  
  

  PERSLOAD

• Personnel hourly task data collection, used to document work loads of Air Force personnel. The web-based program PERSLOAD provides for continuous data entry, with web-based dynamic HTML reports available on demand in many formats to higher management. PERSLOAD allows data never available before to be interpreted and integrated into timely decision-making.
  
  
• Click here for an example of PERSLOAD.
  
  
• Click here for news articles from Gov't Computer News and Federal Computer Week on PERSLOAD.

• AUTOGEN for the Army Research Institute's Occupational Analysis Office. AUTOGEN is an integrated application combining surveys and reports, used for collecting training and evaluation feedback from soldiers, teachers and field officers at Army TRADOC schools. AUTOGEN also supports Job Analysis and Task Analysis skill survey forms for additional usage. Click here for a description of the AUTOGEN project.
  
  May 03, 2004 AUTOGEN in Government Computer News
  
  For U.S. Army TRADOC school users: The program EZSurvey for the Internet provides flexible form design for School use in addition to the forms contained in AUTOGEN. Click here to go to EZSurvey.
• GoWeb for the Army Research Institute's Army Personnel Survey Office. GoWeb is an integrated application used to distribute specialized surveys into the field. Each user of GoWeb can customize and distribute their own surveys, as well as append and report on collected data. Click here for a description of the GoWeb project.

Office of Personnel Management:

October 9, 2006, Federal Computer Week, "Surveys to tap into feds' feelings" Sept 26, 2005, OPM Survey in Federal Computer Week May 23, 2005, InterForm in Federal Computer Week


New! A new federal regulation as of January 1, 2007 will require federal agencies to conduct annual employee surveys. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing 45 standard questions for the mandatory survey. Raosoft, Inc. software currently powers the OPM-conducted Human Capital Survey, and we have now created a template of the new OPM standard questions for use with Raosoft software. Agencies can deploy easily the required employee satisfaction survey, either administering it themselves or by having Raosoft provide the hosting and implementation. View the sample template and Read about the new regulation.


• 2006: View a sample of the 2006 Human Capital Survey
  
  
• 2006: OPM was able to repeat it's survey entirely by themselves without Raosoft assistance. OPM changed the survey instrument as they wanted, and successfully deployed the survey government-wide.
  
  
• 2004: View a sample of the 2004 Human Capital Survey
  
  
• 2004: "Feds happy with their workplaces," Government Computer News. The 2004 OPM Human Capital Survey measures 150,000 federal workers! This 2004 version is the second iteration of the biennial government-wide all agency sampling on issues considered most vital to the Office of Personnel Management, the overreaching personnel agency of the federal government. Results provide guidance to help target work effort and resources. The 2004 survey indicates that workers are critical of managers, sparking a review to determine causation and discussion of how to improve situations. OPM was able to handle this iteration of the Human Capital Survey on their own, with only limited guidance by Raosoft, due to the complete support that Raosoft InterForm products gave to the process. The software provides OPM administrators with the InterForm WebCounts program in order to provide both Headquarters and regions with provisional real-time results to monitor the progress of the survey. Click "Feds happy with their workplaces" to read the article.
  
  
• 2004: "Benefits count for the feds," Federal Computer Week. This article discusses how the federal government used the data that was collected from projects using InterForm: the 2004 Human Capital Survey and the 2004 Employee Benefits Survey. The importance and satisfaction for personnel of the various workplace benefits were measured.
  
  
• 2002: Development of the web deployed Human Capital survey, part of the Balanced Scorecard effort of the U.S. Government. This web survey was implemented government wide to the Human Resources department of all agencies. Click here to view a sample 2002 Human Capital Survey that was distributed to more than 270,000 federal employees

U.S. Department of Defense:

• Living Pattern Survey (LPS) Creator for the Per Diem Travel and Transportation Allowances Committee. LPS Creator is an integrated application for each U.S. military base around the world to adapt and distribute the LPS, as well as appending and reporting on collected data. The information gathered by web surveys is factual data, consisting of prices, quantities, locations and explanatory comments of purchasing goods and services. Click here for a description of the Living Pattern Survey and Retail Price Schedule projects.
  
  

Bureau of the Public Debt, U.S. Department of Treasury:

• Case Study on Survey Hosting for a Government Agency. The Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Public Debt (BPD) launched an organization-wide Employee Survey targeted to all of the approximately 1800 employees. The survey consisted of 30 questions, most in matrix format. All responses were anonymous; at the same time respondents were tracked to determine who had completed the questionnaire. The survey ran for two weeks, and 76% of employees that received an invitation to the survey responded.

U.S. Housing and Urban Development:

• H.U.D. Training Academy: Development of a specialized web survey based application for Needs Assessment data collection and web-based reporting. Click here for a detailed case study description of this project.
  
  

Office of Government Ethics:

• Agency Ethics Program Questionnaire: Collects data on ethics compliance for over 120 US Government Agencies. Raosoft has performed the following services since 2004:
  • Compose the data collection form including user interface, navigation and summary reporting
  • Securely host the data collection on our web server
  • Send email invitations and reminder emails to agency participants
  • Deliver bi-weekly agency status reports
  • Generate a report for each agency upon agency completion
  • Generate an aggregate report upon conclusion of data collection period
  
  
  

National Renewable Energy Laboratory:

• Annual NREL Staff Employee Survey and specialized web-based reports based on gathered data. Reports included previous year comparisons and inter-department comparisons. Comparable web surveys were carried out over three years. Click here for the Federal Computer Week article.

Matthew Greenwald and Associates

• Market Research projects employing web surveys, including health care and banking industry questionnaire survey projects.
  
  

American Red Cross

Raosoft EZSurvey integration with American Red Cross Learning Management System (LMS)

Raosoft EZSurvey was used to create a series of knowledge assessment surveys that would measure students’ knowledge before and after course completion. Students access the assessments whey they log into their individual LMS profile to view and complete course work.

EZSurvey surveys hosted by Raosoft were configured to accept a URL generated by the LMS system. Tracking information in the URL identified the participant and included a session ID. When the student completed the survey, their identifying information was passed back to the LMS with their status marked 'Complete'.

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