Market Research Software Firm E-Tabs Appoints New Client Consultant
Market Research Software Firm E-Tabs Appoints New Client Consultant
Nitu Pannu named E-Tabs’ new Client Consultant.
April 25, 2013 – London, UK - E-Tabs, the award winning provider of Market Research data visualization and automated reporting solutions, announces the appointment of Nitu Pannu as Client Consultant.
In her role Pannu will be responsible for advising new and existing clients primarily in North America on their reporting processes. Since completing her Computer Science degree from Westminster University, Nitu has gained a wide range of knowledge and experience within the market research industry. These include technical roles at Eclipse Marketing followed by Client Services and Data Analysis at Cegedim Strategic Data which, combined with her technical abilities, ensures Pannu is perfectly positioned to provide E-Tabs’ clients with valuable reporting strategies and advice.
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with such a well established and highly regarded company in E-Tabs,” says Pannu. “I look forward to speaking with and assisting their clients in producing more efficient and engaging reports.”
Commenting on Pannu’s appointment, Mathew Francis, E-Tabs Global Director of Consultancy said:
“E-Tabs are pleased to welcome Nitu to the team with the knowledge that her technical background coupled with excellent client consulting skills will be an invaluable asset as we continue to deliver innovative and business enhancing solutions to the MR industry.”
Nitu Pannu, E-Tabs Client Consultant
About E-Tabs
Since 1993, E-Tabs’ portfolio of innovative market research tools has helped clients slash costs and streamline essential MR reporting processes. Their award-winning ‘Enterprise’ report automation solution enables population of reports directly from data tables, their dynamic ‘Dashboard’ product is designed to deal with the complexities of MR data, and the revolutionary automated table-checking solution, ‘Verify’, checks frequencies, percentages, hole counts and more in minutes while also highlighting suspicious results and pinpointing errors.
Market Research Software Firm E-Tabs Appoints New Dashboard Consultant to APAC Team
Market Research Software Firm E-Tabs Expands Asia Pacific Team with hire of William Liu joins E-Tabs’ Auckland office as Dashboard Consultant.
December 5, 2012 – London, UK - E-Tabs, the award winning provider of Market Research data visualization and automated reporting solutions, announces the appointment of William Liu as Dashboard Consultant for E-Tabs Asia Pacific.
Liu will be responsible for assisting E-Tabs’ growing list of Market Research Dashboard clients, particularly throughout the Asia Pacific region. He will take a lead role in the design, development and deployment of client data visualization dashboards. Furthermore Liu will provide local support for E-Tabs’ full range of reporting software and services.
Liu is a Computer Science graduate from Beijing, China with experience and skills in a large range of programming platforms. Liu is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin which will be of great benefit to E-Tabs’ clients throughout Asia, especially with the upcoming UNICODE launch of report automation software E-Tabs Enterprise.
“I am excited to be taking on this broad and rewarding challenge,” says Liu. “I look forward to assisting E-Tabs continue to build on their expanding presence in the Asia Pacific region.”
Commenting on Liu’s appointment, Darren Horne, Director of E-Tabs Asia Pacific Operations, says:
“We welcome William to the team, and look forward to utilising his skills to further grow our presence in the region. William’s technical skills will be a huge asset to the team and his language skills will further facilitate our dedicated support of our growing number of clients throughout Asia Pacific.”
About E-Tabs
Since 1993, E-Tabs’ portfolio of innovative market research tools has helped clients slash costs and streamline essential MR reporting processes. Their award-winning ‘Enterprise’ report automation solution enables population of reports directly from data tables, their dynamic ‘Dashboard’ product is designed to deal with the complexities of MR data, and the revolutionary automated table-checking solution, ‘Verify’, checks frequencies, percentages, hole counts and more in minutes while also highlighting suspicious results and pinpointing errors.
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E-Tabs Appoints New Global Director of Consultancy
Market Research Software Firm E-Tabs Appoints New Global Director of Consultancy
Mathew Francis named E-Tabs’ new Global Director of Consultancy.
October 24, 2012 – London, UK - E-Tabs, the award winning provider of Market Research data visualization and automated reporting solutions, announces the appointment of Mathew Francis as Global Director of Consultancy.
Francis will be responsible for managing and growing E-Tabs’ teams of client consultants and facilitating an expansion into new markets. He brings to E-Tabs a wealth of experience from a career in market research which spans over 20 years having held positions on both the agency and client side including Zaicom, Nielsen, Harris Interactive and GfK.
“I am delighted to take the opportunity to work alongside senior management, the consulting and marketing teams of E-Tabs in helping to drive further growth in key regions across the world,” says Francis. “With a great team, innovative solutions and most of all an outstanding record of client satisfaction, the future for E-Tabs is an exciting one.”
Based in the London headquarters, Mathew will operate globally, working closely with E-Tabs’ offices in North America and Asia Pacific.
Commenting on Francis’ appointment, Benjamin Rietti, CEO of E-Tabs, said:
“Having known Mathew for some years, I am delighted to welcome him to E-Tabs. Mathew’s vast experience will further add to our ability to provide cutting edge software solutions and services to the constantly evolving market research industry which we have proudly served for close to 20 years.”
About E-Tabs
Since 1993, E-Tabs’ portfolio of innovative market research tools has helped clients slash costs and streamline essential MR reporting processes. Their award-winning ‘Enterprise’ report automation solution enables population of reports directly from data tables, their dynamic ‘Dashboard’ product is designed to deal with the complexities of MR data, and the revolutionary automated table-checking solution, ‘Verify’, checks frequencies, percentages, hole counts and more in minutes while also highlighting suspicious results and pinpointing errors.
E-Tabs Publishes Report Automation Software Client Case Study
Automated reporting and data visualization software provider E-Tabs, recently announced the release of a new client case study of their market research client, Gongos Research. The client case study, titled “E-Tabs and Gongos Research: Increasing Research Capabilities and Opening New Opportunities" highlights the benefits E-Tabs' report automation software and the tangible benefits experienced by Gongos Research. Click here to read the Case Study.
E-Tabs Publishes New Article Highlighting The Key Features And Benefits of Data Validation Software
Key Features and Benefits of Data Validation Software
Ordinarily, the old axiom “slowly but surely” is a sound one to live by. It implies that the longer you take with a particular task, the more accurate and thorough your results will be. However, table checking may just be the one exception to the rule. No matter how much time you invest in manually checking tables and charts, how many levels of review or how many different departments you involve in the process, the task can be, more often than not, time consuming, inefficient and prone to errors. Even with the highest of precautions it is almost inevitable that inaccuracies will slip through.
Enter data validation software, such as table checking tools, which allows you to automatically check data tables and find inconsistencies across all standard tabulation packages. Automating your data validation and table checking ensures accuracy and saves time, enabling you to focus on other aspects of research.
In order to simplify the checking process and practically eliminate the possibility of erroneous results, a good data validation software package must include the following features:
1. It should require minimal set up and have a library of preinstalled checks.
This means you should be able to begin checking your data tables almost immediately, eliminating the need to invest great deals of time and resources in creating, reviewing and installing customized checks.
2. It must be designed for ease of use.
Your software must be sufficiently user-friendly as to not require any specialist-level programming skills. To make this software work to your advantage, your data processing, research and support staff must be able to master it quickly.
3. It must be capable of generating a thoroughly detailed report.
The final report should ideally indicate which tables passed or failed checks, and it should highlight tables with inaccuracies by using options such as screenshots to provide an easy-to-read visual analysis.
4. It should be able to check multiple tab sets across all your data files.
This option speeds up checking time considerably and improves efficiency because it prevents the duplication of tasks.
5. It should contain a full-featured built-in scripting language.
Ideally, you should have flexibility to put aside the check designer and write script checks for complex tables yourself.
Passing on inaccurate information to a client is absolutely unacceptable. With your company’s reputation riding on your deliverables, even the smallest of mistakes can have immeasurable negative consequences. Therefore, utilizing a good data validation software package is a must.
E-Tabs Publishes New Article On Market Research Tools
Actions based on uninformed decisions are at best a gamble; at worst, a potential disaster. This is especially true in the business world. When you are poised to spend hard-earned money to launch a new product or service, or revamp an existing one, the only way to optimize your success is to pinpoint the protocol that will best serve your intended client base.
Market research is the objective collection and analysis of data in a precise, systematic format. Ideally, market research will provide you with a keener understanding of your competition, target market, business environment, and public opinion. Through on-going market research you gather useful information that will help you form more intelligent business decisions.
Why hire a market research firm?
Some business owners balk at hiring a professional market research firm due to the related costs. However, when you consider that the information garnered by the research firm will likely yield bigger profits in the future, the original costs becomes insignificant.
For example, if sales of one of your leading products have been systematically sinking over time, you need to find out exactly why and address the issue immediately. When a crucial outcome is riding on your decisions, you can’t afford to guess the reason for the drop in sales, you need to know why. While an informal poll of your staff or clients may generate vague opinions and subjective answers, it will definitely not give you the targeted information you need. A professional market research firm can.
What are the benefits of market research?
The benefits of market research are broad. MR informs and guides your communication with both current and potential customers. Your marketing campaigns will be more effective when you target them directly to your market.
Market research helps you recognize potentially advantageous opportunities in the marketplace and helps you minimize the risks of expanding your business. Regardless of whether you offer a product or a service, the more informed you are the better your chances of success.
If you were planning to open a store in a certain location, for example, you would want to know if there is competition nearby, if the surrounding population has a need for your product or service, and how to best attract the clientele based on their tastes and sensibilities. Market research can help you find all the information you need in an intelligent and systematic way.
Furthermore, market research uncovers and identifies potential problems, helps you create attainable (and sustainable!) targets and allows you to track you progress between research intervals, such as annual surveys. Even more importantly, market research allows you to systematically track any evolving trends in your customer demographics
The use of specialized market research tools such as data validation software, chart automation and report automation software, and dynamic business dashboards, a market research firm can provide all the customized information you need to achieve optimal success in the marketplace. This information allows you to make changes to your product, service, location, or marketing strategies before any problem becomes too great to correct. You could call it an early warning system that grants you plenty of advance notice in order to avoid potential catastrophes, and change course for the greatest chance of success.
E-Tabs Publishes New Article Highlighting The 5 Most Important Features of a Dynamic Business Dashboard
The 5 Most Important Features of a Dynamic Business Dashboard
In today’s fast paced markets, the ability to share information easily, quickly and effectively is imperative. Clients demand a fast turn-around on projects, yet will absolutely not compromise on quality and accuracy. Furthermore, they want to receive their information in a clear, concise manner that does not require hours of scrutiny to decipher.
Quickly becoming one of the most popular tools in the Business Intelligence sector, dynamic business dashboards deliver all of the above. Just as a car dashboard offers all the pertinent information the driver needs to accurately navigate his vehicle, a well-designed dynamic dashboard should present a large amount of information in a streamlined, easy to interpret manner.
Before selecting a dynamic business dashboard for your business, there are five key features that must be present in order to maximize the ultimate usability of the dashboard.
1. Functionality
Basic functionality is extremely important. Key features should include hovers, drill-down, sorting and conditional formatting. The ability to display a vast array of different chart types is also important.
2. Customized Views
The client should be able to create customized dashboard views. For example, to focus on key metrics without clutter, dynamic dashboards should allow simple drag and drop functionality, enabling clients to select the chart objects they are most interested in and move them around the screen. .
3. Integration
A good business dashboard should be compatible with any existing web technology and fit seamlessly into various platforms. For example, a dashboard must be adaptable and integrate seamlessly whether your client is running an intranet, extranet or website.
4. Import & Export
A highly effective dynamic business dashboard should accept data in a wide range of formats including SQL, Oracle, MS Access and flat files (e.g. Excel and CSV). Furthermore, the data behind the dashboard must be able to be exported directly to a CSV file for further manipulation. Alternatively, the client should be able to export an image of individual charts or the entire dashboard itself to PowerPoint, PDF or PNG.
5. Sharing and Notifications
For ultimate flexibility, users should be able to share information with each other by annotating the dashboard. Data-based notifications can be added to the dashboard to alert users when certain threshold values have been reached.
A dynamic business dashboard that includes all of the above features is the ultimate tool in the quest for streamlined usability. Businesses will be able to retrieve data more efficiently and to interpret it faster, enabling them to make sound business decisions.
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E-Tabs Publishes New Article on the 5 Essential Features of Chart Automation Software
5 Essential Features of Chart Automation Software
With technology developing faster than ever before, businesses are compelled to keep up with the latest innovations just to remain competitive. The Market Research industry is no exception. In today’s high-pressure marketplace, clients are demanding faster turnaround on projects and will not tolerate errors or late deliverables. The volume of data and information requiring analysis and interpretation is becoming overwhelming. There is now the constant pressure to accomplish more, in less time and Market Research firms can no longer afford to analyze and visually present their client’s data manually. In today’s market, the utilization of chart automation software to generate automatic reports is no longer merely an alternative – it has become an invaluable necessity.
The manual generation of reports is time consuming and prone to errors and omissions due in large part to simple human error and deadline pressures. Checking and re-checking reports to avoid sending these mistakes to your clients also eats up valuable time and staff-hours. In contrast, producing automated charts, graphs and reports directly from your research data ensures precision, accuracy and drastically cuts your turnaround time.
But not all chart automation software is created equal. Before you decide on which software to purchase for your business, you have to make sure it fully meets your needs. To work at an optimum level, your automated charting software should provide the following 5 features:
- Flexibility: Your software should be able to combine data from multiple sources including tables, reports and databases.
- Powerful calculation capacities: The reporting software should be able to calculate nets, trends, indices, percentages and significance on any table or chart, even if they aren’t present in the original tables.
- Varied data manipulation options: If your software cannot handle data manipulation such as ranking, concatenation and conditional selection, you will not be getting the most out of your reporting.
- Ability to set formatting rules: In order to dynamically highlight significant or unexpected values, your software must allow you to set your own formatting rules.
- Filtering options: Your chart and report automation software must be able to leverage powerful filtering options on your original tables to extract percentages and frequency counts, round decimals and manage significance letters.
It is no longer a question of whether or not your market research firm should make the move – the question is simply which software you will select, and how much time and money it will save your business.
E-Tabs Publishes New Article Highlighting Benefits of Automated Reporting - Featured on EzineArticles, May 2012
As featured on EzineArticles, by Benjamin Rietti
In our fast paced world, there never seems to be enough time to get everything done before the workday ends. Market Research firms suffer from this time crunch more acutely than most other industries. Your clients, whose business strategies and marketing decisions rely on the data generated by your firm, seem to demand increasingly faster turnaround times on reports and projects. That is why chart automation and automated reporting software are becoming increasingly more essential to your business success.
Here are five benefits that report automation can bring to your MR firm:
1. Reduce time-consuming, manual tasks
No matter how skilled your employees, it takes a great deal of time and patience to enter data and run reports. This time can most certainly be used more effectively within your organization while the chart automation software enables you to complete such tasks as updating your reports by wave, region or brand in a matter of seconds.
2. Improve Accuracy
Report automation eliminates repetitive and error-prone tasks such as manual data entry ensuring pinpoint data accuracy, saving time both in running and checking reports.
3. Add creativity and analysis
MR Firms often have no spare time or staff available for flexibility, creativity or to add insight to projects. Users of report automation software have utilized the time they saved with chart automation to add extra details, analysis and insights to their projects.
4. Manage heavy workloads and bring more business
Unpredictable workloads make it difficult to manage busy reporting periods efficiently. Additionally, report turnaround is not always as fast as your clients would like it to be. With automated charting, the money and time you save can allow you to not just keep your existing clients satisfied, but to also take on more business without adding additional resources.
5. Increase profit margins.
The right market research tools simplify your workload and allow you to expand your services. Companies that utilize report automation software have proven time and again that technology can be leveraged to increase profit margins and improve efficiencies. By automating your reporting, you are choosing to provide your clients with fast, accurate, visually arresting reports in a fraction of the time. And we all know that there is no downside to satisfied customers.
About E-Tabs
Since 1993, E-Tabs’ portfolio of innovative market research tools has helped clients slash production costs and streamline essential MR reporting processes.
- Their award-winning ‘Enterprise’ report automation solution enables the user to populate PowerPoint, Word and Excel reports directly from data tables.
- E-Tabs’ ‘Dashboard’ product was especially designed to deal with the complexities of MR data and displays results in one of the company’s dynamic business dashboards.
- The outsourced ‘Bureau Service’ is endorsed by leading MR companies who want fast and accurate results for their automated reporting needs.
- The company’s revolutionary automated table-checking solution, ‘Verify’, checks frequencies, percentages, hole counts, bases, means, standard deviations and more in mere minutes while also highlighting suspicious results and pinpointing errors.
E-Tabs Publishes New Article Highlighting Benefits of Automated Reporting - Featured on EzineArticles, May 2012 (2)
As featured on EzineArticles, by Benjamin Rietti
In our fast paced world, there never seems to be enough time to get everything done before the workday ends. Market Research firms suffer from this time crunch more acutely than most other industries. Your clients, whose business strategies and marketing decisions rely on the data generated by your firm, seem to demand increasingly faster turnaround times on reports and projects. That is why chart automation and automated reporting software are becoming increasingly more essential to your business success.
Here are five benefits that report automation can bring to your MR firm:
1. Reduce time-consuming, manual tasks
No matter how skilled your employees, it takes a great deal of time and patience to enter data and run reports. This time can most certainly be used more effectively within your organization while the chart automation software enables you to complete such tasks as updating your reports by wave, region or brand in a matter of seconds.
2. Improve Accuracy
Report automation eliminates repetitive and error-prone tasks such as manual data entry ensuring pinpoint data accuracy, saving time both in running and checking reports.
3. Add creativity and analysis
MR Firms often have no spare time or staff available for flexibility, creativity or to add insight to projects. Users of report automation software have utilized the time they saved with chart automation to add extra details, analysis and insights to their projects.
4. Manage heavy workloads and bring more business
Unpredictable workloads make it difficult to manage busy reporting periods efficiently. Additionally, report turnaround is not always as fast as your clients would like it to be. With automated charting, the money and time you save can allow you to not just keep your existing clients satisfied, but to also take on more business without adding additional resources.
5. Increase profit margins.
The right market research tools simplify your workload and allow you to expand your services. Companies that utilize report automation software have proven time and again that technology can be leveraged to increase profit margins and improve efficiencies. By automating your reporting, you are choosing to provide your clients with fast, accurate, visually arresting reports in a fraction of the time. And we all know that there is no downside to satisfied customers.
About E-Tabs
Since 1993, E-Tabs’ portfolio of innovative market research tools has helped clients slash production costs and streamline essential MR reporting processes.
- Their award-winning ‘Enterprise’ report automation solution enables the user to populate PowerPoint, Word and Excel reports directly from data tables.
- E-Tabs’ ‘Dashboard’ product was especially designed to deal with the complexities of MR data and displays results in one of the company’s dynamic business dashboards.
- The outsourced ‘Bureau Service’ is endorsed by leading MR companies who want fast and accurate results for their automated reporting needs.
- The company’s revolutionary automated table-checking solution, ‘Verify’, checks frequencies, percentages, hole counts, bases, means, standard deviations and more in mere minutes while also highlighting suspicious results and pinpointing errors.
Press Release: Verify - April 2011
E-Tabs revolutionary table checker - a click away from data perfection!
They said it was impossible…but now E-Tabs, the market leader in report automation software announce the Global release of ‘Verify’, the world’s first automated tabulations checker.
E-Tabs Verify is truly ground-breaking… A genuine advance… An industry first… A revolutionary concept… E-Tabs are ahead of the curve again."
Press Release: Queen's Award
E-Tabs wins Queen's Award for Enterprise
E-Tabs, the leaders in report and chart automation for the Market Research Industry, are delighted to announce that they have won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The award was granted for Innovation and recognises their performance and commercial successes as outstanding.
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious Awards for business performance. They recognise and reward outstanding achievement by UK companies. The Innovation category highlights companies that have demonstrated commercial success through innovative products or services. The Awards are given solely on merit and competition is fierce. The number of Awards presented each year is not pre-set and depends on the quality of the applications received. Short-listed applications are then forwarded to the Prime Minister's Advisory Committee for further scrutiny.
Press Release: MRS/ASC Award winners for Verify December 2011
E-Tabs win the MRS/ASC Joint Technology Effectiveness Award for 2011/12
E-Tabs have claimed another MRS ASC Technology Effectiveness Award in December 2011 with their "ingenious" automated table-checking solution E-Tabs Verify. This win coupled with The Queen’s Award for Enterprise, received last year, and the earlier MRS/ASC Technology Effectiveness Award, won for their innovative report automation software, substantiate E-Tabs' position at the cutting edge of market research software development.
Read more: Press Release: MRS/ASC Award winners for Verify December 2011
Press Release: E-Tabs Expands Asia Pacific Team - January 2011
E-Tabs Expands Asia Pacific Team
E-Tabs, the award winning provider of report automation solutions are excited to welcome James Rock to their Asia Pacific team.
As Business Development Manager for Asia Pacific, James will be responsible for developing new business opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region. Having gained 13 years of experience working for leading market research and media companies such as Fairfax Media Network, Nielsen, Sky Television Network and Tebbutt Research in Fiji, James has an extensive knowledge of the challenges that lay ahead for the market research industry and as such is excited to be at the forefront of delivering the innovative portfolio of E-Tabs software solutions and services to the Asia-Pacific region.
Read more: Press Release: E-Tabs Expands Asia Pacific Team - January 2011
Press Release: Automation, Innovation and ROI at The Market Research Event - November 2010
Catch the E-Tabs Session Automation, Innovation and ROI at The Market Research Event.
E-Tabs presented and exhibited at The Market Research Event from November 8 – 10. Our session took place during the Data Analysis & Measurement track on Tuesday, November 9 and drew on Nielsen’s account of how they have leveraged E-Tabs report automation within their business to take on larger, more complicated projects without additional resource. If you were unable to join us for the session one of our team will be happy to fill you in.
Press Release: E-Tabs Expands Asia Pacific Team - August 2011
E-Tabs Expands Asia Pacific Team
Press Release: E-Tabs Enterprise Undergoes Ingenious Transformation - January 2011
E-Tabs Enterprise Undergoes Ingenious Transformation
With its fresh new look, intelligent features and usability enhancements garnered from extensive user feedback, Enterprise version 5 will enable researchers to deliver their charts, graphs and PowerPoint presentations against even tighter timescales. A few of the next generation Enterprise’s noteworthy features are outlined below.
Read more: Press Release: E-Tabs Enterprise Undergoes Ingenious Transformation - January 2011
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