Data Model
Full support for the survey research lifecycle
The UNICOM Intelligence Data Model supports the survey research lifecycle from authoring through data collection and reporting. It provides resources, methodologies and technical guidance to help you manage and customize your survey research projects.
The UNICOM Intelligence Data Model provides capabilities to help you:
Customize and manage survey research
- Provides an open, published interface (API) for developers looking to re-engineer and innovate the research process
- Offers a methodology for managing data of differing formats, structures and storage mechanisms
- Offers a methodology that allows applications to read and write data from any source, regardless of the storage technology
- Supplies connections to various data sources through a number of included Data Source Components
- Create data source components to include other data formats
Get specialized guidance
- Assistance for scriptwriters developing automated survey research processes
- Help for software developers wanting to leverage UNICOM Intelligence products and technologies
- Educational information for anyone wanting to understand more about data collection solutions
Access resources and documentation
- Use the UNICOM Intelligence Developer Library to learn and work with our technologies
- Download overviews, white papers and tutorials
- See design documentation, detailed programmers’ reference materials and working source code
- Get sample applications for different degrees of expertise, from beginner to advanced
Remote Admin (component available as a SaaS solution)
Efficiently manage offline interviews and track data
UNICOM Intelligence Remote Admin works with UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer Desktop to help you manage your offline interviewers and projects and track data synchronization. The powerful UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer - Server security model ensures that your interviewers get the right projects and you get the most current data.
UNICOM Intelligence Remote Admin enables you to:
- Assign projects to interviewers and interviewers to projects
- Manage changes in the field without relying on email or managing files offline
- Ensure that interviewers always have the latest version of a survey so that they can focus on collecting data
- Send data directly to the server when a connection is available, freeing interviewers from data management tasks. When the connection is intermittent or not available, data is stored on the desktop
- Keep all project data centralized regardless of data collection mode
- Augment online data collection with off-line data collection without sacrificing speed to insight
- Synchronize data automatically through UNICOM Intelligence Remote Manager’s ability to detect and connect to an Internet connection whenever one is available
Survey hosting (component available as a SaaS solution)
Do you need help with an online data collection project? Does your organization conduct a handful of online surveys, or experience a "feast or famine" survey workload? Or perhaps you have a limited infrastructure, or insufficient people to manage your online surveys effectively.
If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you might consider outsourcing your online projects to save time, minimize in-house resources and maximize the benefits of online data collection.
You provide a questionnaire and UNICOM Intelligence Online Services gives you the survey results.
The UNICOM Intelligence Survey Hosting solution offers a fully outsourced online data collection capability that delivers all that you need to conduct online data collection. The full range of services includes hosting your online survey or form.
You can use your own sample or UNICOM Intelligence Online Services can provide one for you, and the expert staff, who include a Research Account Manager individually assigned to your project, will provide the project management and programming services.
The hosting solution has been designed to provide a comprehensive online service that meets your needs. It offers:
- Programming and hosting for surveys/forms of varying length and complexity
- Proven survey research tools
- A wide selection of programming capabilities
- Project management and online research consulting
- Interactive/media capabilities
- Secure password protection and user authentication
- Secure, real-time reporting
- Quality deliverables
UNICOM Intelligence Online Services has served the needs of clients for more than 40 years, and understands every step of the online data collection process.
You can save time and conserve in-house resources by outsourcing your online projects to UNICOM Intelligence Survey Hosting.
Just provide your questionnaire or form and UNICOM Intelligence Online Services will give you the results - with no monthly fees or hidden charges.
Professional
An integrated development environment for scripting automated survey processes
UNICOM Intelligence Professional is a complete set of tools that supports the building of automated survey research processes. It includes an integrated development environment (IDE) that enables you to create, edit, run and debug UNICOM Intelligence scripts. In addition, UNICOM Intelligence Professional also allows you to create scripts that perform various data management tasks.
UNICOM Intelligence Professional has features to help you:
Use advanced functionality to create effective surveys
When used in combination with UNICOM Intelligence Author you can:
- Gain advanced survey creation capabilities for sophisticated projects
- Build surveys with complex logic and routings that deliver superior results
- Work collaboratively and efficiently across the enterprise
Streamline your reporting process to share your insights more efficiently
When used in combination with UNICOM Intelligence Reporter you can:
- Perform sophisticated data management using scripting in a professional development environment
- Automate, schedule and standardize your reporting routines to streamline report creation