SurveyGold from Golden Hills Software is an easy to use Internet-based survey software system that has been around for some time and has to some degree mastered the art of making online research a simple, don’t-have-to-think-to-hard-about-it process. Although the software is limited to a basic set of question types, it does allow for some basic skipping based on responses and if you’re looking for a program that will get you the results quickly with very little training, this package may be worth exploring.

I’m not going to go into an entire review of the software package here at this moment (although I did just download it — Golden Hills offers a free 30-day trial), what I did want to say is that version 8 of the software was just released a few weeks ago and it offers a variety of features such as:

• Opportunity to organize surveys into folders.
• Basic weighting.
• Multi-page web survey form (takes SurveyGold to the next level!)
• Basic validation
• Ability to import/export surveys for other SurveyGold users.
• Memorized filters (you can set up data filters for viewing your results and it will remember them)
• Wave reporting (view mdata collected over time against prior periods)
• Updated user interface (very XP-like in my opinion)
• Faster database
• Improved graphing in the reports module

Several bugs from the previous version of the software have also been fixed.

Learn more about SurveyGold 8