Vovici (formerly Perseus SurveySolutions and WebSurveyor) announced today that they were acquiring EZSurvey and EZReport from another survey software provider, Raosoft Inc. Vovici will take over all EZSurvey maintenance contracts and will provide customer service and support.

According to the press release, the acquisition will will:

…strengthens Vovici’s ability to move new clients onto its Web-based survey and Enterprise Feedback Management platforms, as the majority of Raosoft’s clients are now using desktop software to develop and conduct online surveys. Additionally, this acquisition reinforces Vovici’s position within the government market leveraging Raosoft’s Federal government client base, which includes the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and Department of the Treasury.

Government clients of Raosoft included the Department of Agriculture, Commerice, Defense, Energy, Interior, Justice, Labor, Treasury, EPA, FAA, FBI, IRS, FDA, and various other agencies and offices. Corporate clients include AARP, ACNielsen, American College Testing, the America Red Cross, AT&T, Deloitte & Touche, Costco, McDonald’s, Time Warner Cable, and educational facilities including Emory University, U-Mass Boston, and Penn State.

In the July, 2006 issue of the Market Research Society’s Research Magazine, Tim Macer reviewed Perseus SurveySolutions 2.0, a multi-user online survey solution with integrated sampling, invitation management, report preparation and publishing, which is aimed at large enterprises wishing to consolidate and co-ordinate all their research and feedback activities.

Tim liked the Word-like interface for designing surveys, the centrally controlled ‘profiles’ that allow direct links to enterprise databases to provide "real-time and moment-of-truth sampling" and the simple results portal; he didn’t like the fact that there was no intelligent support for coding or consolidating open-ended data, the limited range of statistics, and the fact that it was labourious working with open-ends.

Read Tim Macer’s full review of Perseus Survey Solutions EFM 2.0