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Why Pocket Pollster?
When organizations think about evolving past collecting data on paper, an important question always arises: Why bother?
At first glance there seems to be little inherently wrong with getting people to collect information with paper forms or little notebooks. But upon closer inspection there are actually countless problems! For starters, people can enter anything they want, not always sticking to the structure of the form. How that later gets entered into a database or spreadsheet is quite arbitrary. Just as often, not all of the required information is recorded.
There's an even bigger problem though. What happens to those dozens or hundreds or thousands of filled-in forms? They're gathered together . . . and then? Someone has to keypunch their contents into a computer. This means that all of the information that was originally hand entered onto a piece of paper has to be re-entered a second time into a computer. Then all the errors and crucial missing pieces of data on the forms need to be sorted out. This all takes time & costs money - often a lot of both. Many times these costs are hidden but they're there nonetheless. Pocket Pollster eliminates them all ... completely!
Pocket Pollster was born out of the need to streamline data acquisition away from the desk. Information is entered into handheld mobile computers using intelligent, intuitive, easy-to-use screens. The software ensures that each form is filled out perfectly every time. When the mobile computers are later connected to a desktop (or laptop) computer, the information is automatically and effortlessly transferred over, where it can be reviewed, analyzed, and even exported to other software applications.
If you're interested in eliminating those paper forms and revolutionizing the way your organization collects information then Pocket Pollster is definitely what you need!