Regardless of your specific process, Symphony works with you to uncover meaning and communicate results. Symphony will make you more productive, significantly reducing the cost and time it takes to produce quality results capable of moving organizations.

 

For additional details, please view the online User Guide.

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".

 

 

Symphony extracts notes from interview documents with two mouse clicks -- ignoring your boiler plate!

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.

 

Create codes on the fly
Drag and drop coding

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.  

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

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

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.  

 

 

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.

 

Symphony easily integrates with Microsoft Word to product reports that conform to your organization's styles and branding.

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.

 

Report edits fed back to Symphony

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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