Survey authoring
- Multiple question and response types
- Customized response validation and error messages
- Conditional branching - ask relevant questions only
- Piping - dynamic questions and texts, based on answers and other data
- Use of predefined skins or stylesheets for survey appearance
- Include images in questions
- Question library - reuse questions for fast and effortless survey building
- Import/export surveys, questions and respondents in XML
Publication and invitations
- Instant survey publication
- Optional authentication of respondents
- Prevent multiple responses from the same person
- Define start and stop dates for surveys
- Invite respondents using emails
- Automatic email reminders
- Import invitees, with optional custom data
- Prepopulate survey responses
- Export invitees
- Create reusable invitee lists
Reporting
- Summary and comment listing reports instantly available
- Inspect single responses to a survey
- Create complete comment reports for open-ended questions
- Customize reports with charts
- Filtered reports - create powerful reports
- Export response data to CSV - for external analysis
- Export response data to SPSS - for advanced statistical analysis
- Open database architecture - create your own reports
- Publish your reports using the report portal
- Configurable portal security level
Multilingual surveys
- Create a survey with multiple languages
- Supports all character sets including UNICODE
- The Opinio user interface supports the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Czech
Create polls
Survey-panel management
- Create panels to get better control of respondent recruitment
- Define panelist signup page, to collect demographic and other data
- Panelist portals with survey information (invited, completed)
- Create sample definitions, and use them when inviting people to participate in surveys
User management
- Supports multiple survey creators/publishers
- Highly customizable permission control for users and authors
- Create user groups with limited permissions
- See who is currently online
System administration
Enterprise features
- Create survey templates to match the look & feel of your company
- Clustering enables you to run Opinio on multiple servers simultaneously
- Scalable - designed for high loads
- Surveys cached for performance
- Plugin architecture - add your own functionality
- Survey collaboration enables survey commenting
Integration and customization
Technology
- Web based administration - no client installations
- Platform independent - based on Java/Servlet technology
- Runs on all major web servers - Apache, Internet Information server (IIS), etc
- Supports all major databases - Oracle, MySql, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, ...