The show must go on By Richard Collins Business, Social 12th June 2020 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter This time of year is traditionally the start of the festival season in Europe and in any normal year, many of the Askia team would be heading off in camper vans to immerse themselves in a collective celebration of art, music, food, drink & humanity. But this is no normal year. The festival and conference industry has been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and our friends in the MR industry that run their conferences are proving that adversity really is the mother of invention. They have…
Askia extends its 2020 Spring Webinar Series By Richard Collins Business 9th April 2020 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter These are unprecedented & challenging times. However one positive trend that does seem to be coming through is that there is currently a thirst for online learning. Our last two webinars were the most well attended that we have ever run and so we decided to organise two more. The first one was quite a technical session, all about the use of Askia Design Controls & Askia Design Pages (ADCs & ADPs) encompassing our ADX Studio – a unique place to create your own custom question controls and…
With Ipsos, Askia remains Askia! By Richard Collins Business 27th March 2020 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter This blog article is an interview with Jérôme Sopoçko and Patrick George Lassale, co-founders of Askia. Originally published online on 23rd March 2020 in the Market Research News France website – original article in French. The announcement was made a few days ago: Ipsos is taking a majority stake in Askia, a specialist in software solutions for Market Research. Yet another acquisition one might say, as these are happening quite commonly these days in our industry. However, the news came as a surprise to at least some market…
Askia support for clients working from home By Richard Collins Business 18th March 2020 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter During these unusual times we are all concerned with doing what we can to help halt the Coronavirus pandemic. So working from home is fast becoming the default for many people all over the world. For Askia users, we want to make sure that you can continue to use Askia when working remotely. Here is what you need to know… Scripters and Data Analysts Firstly, we are not going to charge anything extra for additional licenses needed on home devices. If you need an extra license for a…
Askia Spring Webinars 2020 By Richard Collins Business 17th March 2020 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Askia is once again running some Spring webinars in 2020. We have a couple of really interesting topics, both of which could significantly increase productivity and impact in your research projects. Tuesday 24th March – Hear this! Enabling voice in your web surveys – using Phebi Insight. As advertised in a recent blog article here, adding voice-enabled surveys has never been more relevant and simple to achieve, by including Phebi Insight’s award-winning technology to your Askia web surveys. Here is a recording of the session that we ran:…
Askia & Ipsos By Patrick George Lassale Business 18th February 2020 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Version française dessous / French version below How is it that after 25 years of independence, Askia has now chosen to continue along the road with Ipsos? The publication of the press release this week announcing Ipsos’ acquisition of a majority stake in Askia was accompanied by this very legitimate question. The answer can be summed up in a few words – their proposal is quite simply in line with our values. It is based on three fundamental ingredients: Recognition of the Askia product range Career opportunities for…
Ipsos acquires a majority stake in Askia By Richard Collins Business 11th February 2020 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter From Ipsos, Paris, 10 February 2020: Ipsos is pleased to announce the acquisition of a majority stake in Askia, a leading survey technology provider to the market research industry for more than 20 years.Askia was founded in 1996 by Jérôme Sopoçko and Patrick George Lassale. Its high performing tools for collecting, analysing, reporting and visualising both online and offline data enjoy high recognition among more than 150 clients, including research companies and businesses. Askia has subsidiaries in France, the UK, Germany and the United States. Its annual revenues…
Automating insight : our revamped vision, mission & values By Gaëlle Normand Business 10th December 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter In 2016, as we celebrated Askia’s 20th anniversary, we published our company’s vision, mission and values for the first time. If you’ve followed us over the past 3 years you will know that we have undertaken a series of major developments. In the process, we have moved away from “Askia software for surveys” to become “Askia automating insight”. Our offering now integrates a strategic dimension and we favour a long-term partnership approach providing expert advice to support our customers through the most complex and strategic projects. This new positioning…
Askia at Research & Results 2019 By Paul Nevin Business 22nd October 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Tomorrow, over 3,000 market research experts from all over the world will join Askia at Research & Results 2019 in Munich! The German trade show has become the largest MRX conference in the EU with over 112 workshops, a fully-booked Innovation Area and exhibitors from all over the world. We’ve been regulars of this event for the past couple of years and once again we’ll be there in numbers; team members from Germany, France, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Come and visit us at booth 138 (in Hall…
Askia & E-Tabs partner with the Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research By Richard Collins Business 1st August 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Askia and E-Tabs partner with the Worldwide Independent Network of Market Research (WIN) to ‘dashboard’ their annual worldwide survey results. Askia and E-Tabs are both pleased to announce that its revolutionary online MR dashboard platform Iris has been chosen by WIN to report its annual worldwide survey (WWS). The WWS explores the outlook, expectations, views and beliefs of over 30,000 people from 40 countries across the world and delivering it with the Iris platform will allow people to look at the differences and similarities between countries, across a wide range of…
