| Flexible and Efficient Data Acquisition Enter interview comments directly into Symphony's content editor or drag and drop Word or Excel documents onto Symphony for fast batch import. Both coded and non-coded content can be imported. Symphony can harvest comments directly from interview documents -- even documents containing interview questions, instructions to the interviewer, and other "boiler plate".
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Symphony extracts notes from interview documents with two mouse clicks -- ignoring your boiler plate!
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Coding Made Easy
Symphony provides extensive capabilities to create new codes and reorganize the coding structure on the fly, fully in line with emergent coding methodologies. Recognizing that coding is often a discovery process, Symphony makes it seamlessly easy to shift back and forth between coding and other tasks, without disrupting your creativity.
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Create codes on the fly
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Drag and drop coding
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Advanced Analytics
Symphony provides a variety of analysis tools to assist in both coding the content and reaching meaningful post-coding conclusions. Features include identification of comment clusters; key word analysis; measurement of interviewees against predefined criteria, and alignment analysis. Results can be exported to Excel SPSS, and other tools for further analysis or charting.
| Key Words -- Symphony analyzes the use of every word, identifying candidate key words in context. Symphony considers frequency of use and consistency across interviewees. Symphony also uses "stemming" to gain the benefit of "hits" across word variants. |

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| Comment Clusters -- Symphony identifies clusters of comments that may share common themes |

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| Alignment Analysis -- Symphony's Alignment Analysis view helps you to see how arities between interviewees. Results can be exported to Excel for further charting. |

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| Statistics -- Symphony includes a power query tool that allows you to produce a wide range of statistics from virtually any cross-section of data. Queries can be saved and then run and output to Word or Excel at a later time. |

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Flexible Reporting
Symphony outputs reports to Microsoft Word 2000 or later, or to Excel. With Word reports Symphony uses the document styles from your Word template or any Word document to produce custom reports that conform to your branding, document structure, and style preferences. The coding structure can be used to drive the table of contents. Advanced filtering enables you to specify virtually any cross-section of content from your project to be included in a report.
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Symphony easily integrates with Microsoft Word to product reports that conform to your organization's styles and branding.
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Round-Trip Content Editing
After circulating a report for review, Symphony can identify edits performed by reviewers and automatically incorporate the changes back into your Symphony project.
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Report edits fed back to Symphony
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As-You-Type Spell-Checker
Symphony includes a built-in spell checker. Replacement words are suggested, and a personal dictionary is maintained for words that you add.
Advanced Interface
Symphony provides various "views" of your content. Each view is optimized to perform certain tasks or to accommodate different work styles.
Portable Projects
Symphony stores each project in its own file (with a .ca extension). This makes sharing of project data amongst Symphony users as simple as emailing the file.
Synchronization Service and Server
For organizations where real-time collaboration and updating of projects is needed, Active Java can provide either synchronization services or an enterprise synchronization server. The service solution runs on a secure server hosted by Active Java and is suitable for most any size organization. Where an organization's data management policies do not permit sensitive information to be stored on a vendor's network, Active Java offers the Synchronization Server. For more information on either of these solutions, please call 917-406-0196.
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