Quask launches new release of FormArtist

Quask launches major new release of FormArtist - Web-based Survey and Form Software for Human Resources Professionals

Quask, provider of web-based survey and form software, announced today the release of a major new version, v3.0, of its FormArtist range of products. FormArtist is a desktop software package that enables human resources professionals to rapidly create and publish web and e-mail based forms, surveys and opinion polls, without any technical knowledge or programming abilities. FormArtist can be used to design any type of employee survey, and can also be used to create a whole array of HR related forms including expense forms, time sheets, job sheets, sickness forms, holiday applications etc.

FormArtist provides businesses with a highly cost-effective method of quickly and easily gathering information from its employees to support and improve business decisions. It enables HR professionals to keep a finger on the pulse of their employees by providing them with an effective tool for creating and deploying on-line employee satisfaction surveys, polls and feedback forms. This enables organisations to regularly keep abreast of employee issues and concerns, ensuring higher staff retention and smoother running business processes.

Creating forms with FormArtist is extremely straightforward due to its powerpoint like WYSIWYG and drag-and-drop interface, and its pre-defined style sheets. This enables forms and surveys to be created in a matter of minutes, allowing users to benefit from hugely reduced production times. FormArtist incorporates a comprehensive library of data collection objects, picture grids and form design features (including its patent pending emoticons) allowing users to create highly attractive, visually rich forms that encourage high response rates.

ìIt was important for us to conduct our survey anonymously.î says Lisa Potenzano, Human Resources Manager, QP Group. ìFormArtist ensured total anonymity, providing our employees with confidence to answer questions honestly. This has resulted in very useful data, which we will use to build our human resource offerings going forward.î

A series of easy to follow wizards, guide users through the process of designing forms, deploying them to a web server, sending out e-mail notifications to respondents, and analysing the resulting data. Surveys can be published to any web server with no server database required, and forms can be deployed by e-mail, link to a ëpop-upí window or embedded into a companyís web page. Intelligence can be built into surveys and forms allowing dynamic form behaviour such as page-skipping, custom validations and other logic to be incorporated. Data, stored in FormArtistís local database, is easily exported to Excel to produce reports containing statistics, tables, bar charts, graphs etc. FormArtist also supports HTML, CSV, SPSS, Snap, ODBC and other formats for data analysis.

The FormArtist range of products comprises FormArtist Presto (29), FormArtist Standard (129), FormArtist Professional (549) and FormArtist Enterprise (prices available on request). A free trial version can also be downloaded from the Quask website at www.quask.com. (All prices are exclusive of VAT). The Enterprise edition features advanced server-side components based on .NET and SQL-Server, and is used by organisations requiring a developer interface and good integration of the data collected from FormArtist forms with their own internal databases.