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Episurveyor creates surveys and seamlessly publishes them to mobile devices.
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Article Overview: Episurveyor is an open source tool that aims at creating a handheld data entry form to collect data on to a mobile device and simultaneously transfer the data back to a web server effectively with reduced costs.
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Episurveyor creates surveys and seamlessly publishes them to mobile devices.
Traditionally, transferring the collected surveyed data was
always a time consuming and a costly task. With Episurveyor being an open
source tool, the task of transferring data back to a desktop or web server is
easy and cost effective. The user requires no expensive consultants, software
subscriptions or any of those complicated long-term contracts. Before Epicentre
survey data management required skilled person to carry out the survey and
store the data. However, this solution allows creation of surveys using the
desktop application and seamlessly publishing them to the handheld devices.
Data can be collected by field agents on their PDA's in the offline mode and
can be synced to desktop application at convenience. The solution helps in
eliminating the paper chain and making the entire process fast, efficient and
free of error. These features of Episurveyor had made it popular even in these
competitive times.
Episurveyor was developed to give its users that open source
software which will allow them to easily create a generic data entry form,
collect data on Palm, Windows mobile & J2ME device and then transfer the
data back to a desktop or upload to web server for analysis. Solution should be
generic so that surveys can be designed for wide range of organization like
U.N. organizations, Hospitals etc.
The developers of Episurveyor also added several
enhancements in the features of the tool. The bugs were resolved out to give a
clean application for its users. The developers went on to release upgraded
versions of Episurveyor which was a enhanced tool in the later releases. The
technologies used in perfecting the application were Java 1.4 or higher, JSP,
Superwaba & MySQL for providing the world class solution. A web edition of
Episurveyor was made available that is similar to a desktop edition and the
Windows mobile edition that parallel to the Palm version. Some of the enhanced
features that was upgraded to the application to reach to a world class
standard is the installation of Episurveyor to PDA from desktop. The Personal
Digital Assistants as we know allows the users to import and export data, store
information. The survey data can thus be handled seamlessly with this feature
of the Episurveyor.
The survey activities mainly consist of many questions and
this is one of the many critical points for a successful survey and this
solution features a solution that introduces new types of questions for an
accurate survey. The enhanced version of the application is has an improved publish
mechanism and popup keyboards on device, allowing user to save survey specifications
etc.
The Episurveyor is appropriate a solution for creating
generic surveys for wide range of industries from desktop or web application. Surveys
thus created can be published to Palm & Windows mobile devices and can be
downloaded on J2ME devices. Survey data can be collected on different devices
and transferred to desktop or can be uploaded on the web server. Data collected
can be analyzed and exported to various formats like html, mdb. It can be
archived also from desktop/laptop.
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About the Author: Anand Kumar RSS for Anand's articles - Visit Anand's website Endeavour is a specialist Mobility company since 2002. Endeavour specializes in mobile software development like Mobile Application Development, iphone Application Development, ipod application development, wireless application development etc. It has been providing strategic consulting and product development for Mobile enabling businesses in the Manufacturing, Media, Print, Healthcare, Consumer solutions, Telecom and Business Intelligence verticals. For more information visit mHealth. Click here to visit Anand's website Manage regional enteritis with Crohns Manger app Free iphone app that gives all the pediatric infectious disease information and research results More on mobile version of Titanium SDK and the development Environment The Onion news network has an official iphone app on stores Episurveyor creates surveys and seamlessly publishes them to mobile devices |
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