Cint

Online Research Buyers' Guide
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www.cint.com

About the company
Cint is a Swedish software company that has revolutionised online market research. The company is committed to providing the most effective solutions for conducting online market research that ultimately save time and money. Cint provides supply chain management that takes the work out of sampling and fieldwork, and leaves market researchers with the time to do what they do best: providing analysis and insight.

Distinctive features

build customer or market research online panels
access international online sample
run ad hoc, tracker or media measurement online surveys.

Cint has developed a unique, international online panel marketplace called CPX where companies can build and manage panels in a secure, web-based environment. At the same time we have a range of intelligent tools that can make conducting online surveys easy and effective, whether it be for ad hoc surveys or multi-country tracker surveys.

By building your own panels you also have the option to earn additional revenue, if you choose to allow the online sample buyers in CPX to purchase the surplus capacity in your panels.

As a user of CPX you can log in, get instant feasibility and price checks, select the sample and then send out the survey, all in a matter of minutes.

Our project management tool automatically handles the survey invitations, panellist incentives and invoicing, and is compatible with most questionnaire tools. You can also choose to use our questionnaire tool. All solutions are fully integrated with one another and thus allow the user to work seamlessly over different countries and products.

Our products and services are:

cpx Panel Management Products (which includes: Panel Manager, Panellist Registration functionality, Panel Administration, Panel Quality Functionality, Incentivisation Management, Panel Publicising Management, Panellist Communication Management, Automated Revenue Specifications)
cpx Panel Platform (Use the cpx platform to develop your own in-house pool of networked panels)
cpx Survey Products
Automated Project Manager (set your requirements and then the APM completes the fieldwork, taking care of all mail outs and any quotas or waves of research you have set)
Project Manager (which includes: pricing and feasibility tools, sample management, invitation and send-out management, real-time project status monitoring, and automated invoicing)
Word Coder (saves you hours of time coding open-ended responses)
Automated Omnibus
Questionnaire Tool.

Our philosophy
To provide products and services that make it easy and cost effective for market researchers to harness the power and potential of online research.

For us, quality is an essential factor if the online market research sector is to grow successfully, so we have developed CPX to be a fully transparent and open web-based marketplace. Not only do market researchers know exactly what panels they are using but they also have full control of the online fieldwork process.

We also operate under ESOMAR guidelines for conducting online market research and our products are designed to ensure that high standards are maintained at all times.

Track record
Cint has been in operation since 1999 and over the last two years, the number of surveys conducted in CPX has grown by over 500%. We now cover 15 international markets and we are on target to significantly increase the markets covered in CPX over 2007. For an update on the latest markets covered visit our website.

We work with most of the major market research agencies in Europe, as well as agencies in the US and other parts of the world. We also provide solutions for small market research agencies who want to enter the online market research sector, and for large companies who want to build their own panels and run their own market research programmes.

Coverage
Online panels in 15 international markets, covering over 800,000 double opt-in, validated panellists which are available for sampling, with a response rate of over 50% on average.

Through CPX you now have access to the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Brazil and China. In 2007 we are also on target to cover Japan, Italy and the US markets.

The panels in CPX are recruited using online, CATI and CAPI methodologies to achieve the widest penetration of population as possible.

Type of contact
We provide services for many different kinds of organisations: from large companies, media companies, and advertising agencies to market research companies and online fieldwork specialists. What all our clients have in common is that they believe that technology can be used to save time and costs while maintaining high standards in online research.

Major research activities/formats supported

Quantitative Online panel building and management, online sample, survey management (including fully automated tracker surveys).
Qualitative Panel owners can use CPX to recruit for focus groups.

Training and technical support
Cint provides training and technical support for all users of CPX. At the same time all our products and services have been designed to be easy to use.

Further information
Whether you just want an informal chat or an online presentation on how our products and services can benefit you, we would be happy to hear from you.

Contact details
Chris Clarke (UK Key Account Manager)
Cint AB
Torsgatan 8
SE-111 23 Stockholm
Sweden

Tel 0046 8545 28269
Fax 0046 8545 28270
Email chris.clarke@cint.com

www.cint.com