Perseus Announces ExpressPoll.com - Free Web Site for Creating Web Polls; A Powerful and Intuitive New Web Site for Creating Interactive Web Polls.BRAINTREE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 1999-- Perseus Development Corporation announces the release of ExpressPoll.com, a free web site that allows users to create single-question web polls. When respondents complete the poll they are instantly shown up-to-the-minute results in graphical or tabular formats. "Having a web poll on your site gives visitors one more reason to return. Being able to increase your percentage of return visitors with a minimal amount of effort and at no additional cost is certainly a benefit to any web site", said Scott Washburn, Product Marketing Manager for Perseus ExpressPoll.com. Visitors to http://www.expresspoll.com simply type in their question text and response choices and then pick from a variety of display options. ExpressPoll.com then automatically creates the needed HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. code that can be copied and pasted into an existing web page. Since polls created using ExpressPoll.com utilize a PERL script running from a complimentary Perseus server, there is no need for users to configure the complex CGI program CGI program - Common Gateway Interface that provides the live-results reporting. Jeffrey Henning, Vice President of Product Development, said: "Perseus is committed to providing fast, fun and friendly ways to set up instant polls. ExpressPoll.com is the latest in our line of free-poll utilities. While our goal is to generate interest in conducting web surveys, in hopes that they will upgrade to Perseus SurveySolutions for the Web, we are happy to be providing a free and useful service to the Internet community". Perseus Development Corp. is the developer of SurveySolutions for the Web, SurveySolutions Enterprise and SurveySolutions Express. SurveySolutions for the Web, introduced in October of 1997 and priced at $179, enables users to create professional surveys, post them to the Web or distribute them via e-mail, automatically collect responses, analyze results, and instantly produce effective presentations. Typical applications include customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, web site feedback, product concept testing Concept testing is the process of using quantitative methods and qualitative methods to evaluate consumer response to a product idea prior to the introduction of a product to the market. , course evaluations A course evaluation is a paper or electronic questionnaire, which requires a written or selected response answer to a series of questions in order to evaluate the instruction of a given course. and the creation of interactive forms. SurveySolutions for the Web is also the first Web survey software product to be Microsoft Office-compatible. SurveySolutions Enterprise extends the power of SurveySolutions for the Web by supporting server-side SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. databases. SurveySoloutions Express is a free web polling software tool, that is available for download from the Perseus web site at http://www.perseus.com . SurveySolutions for the Web and SurveySolutions Enterprise run on personal computers operating with Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . Surveys created with Perseus products run on all server platforms and are compatible with all browsers. Both products require a minimum of 4MB of RAM and 7MB of hard disk space. Perseus Development Corporation was founded in 1994 by professionals in the software development and survey research fields. Perseus Research Services, a division of Perseus Development Corporation, provides customers with professional web-based research services. Perseus Research Services' customer list currently includes Microsoft, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Mitre Corporation (body) MITRE Corporation - A US federally funded R&D center, spun off in 1958 from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory (also an FFRDC). MITRE is a non-profit corporation chartered to do R&D in the public interest. , Hewlett-Packard, and Oracle Corporation. Perseus' survey software is used by thousands of organizations worldwide in the human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , education, commercial and government markets. |
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