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…
Analyse 5.5.2 – Jewels in the Crown (pt 2) By Seyf Altindal Askiaanalysis 2nd December 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter This is part 2 of a series of articles on automating tasks in Analyse. According to the new Askia tagline, you can now automate insights. The claim is bold and possibly premature. But for years now, we have been thinking of ways we could decrease the lapse between questionnaire design and the analysis. Of course producing insights is hard on a new topic but it shouldn’t be that difficult on a more targeted environment. If your survey is generic enough (say an ad test or package testing), you…
Talkin’ bots an’ revolution By Jérôme Sopoçko Askiadesign, Askiafield 27th November 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter A visit to the ESOMAR congress is a sure way to know what’s the next fad or major shift in Market Research. And in September, I counted 4 papers about chat bots. As a proud supporter of the ASC, I am going to point out that the first good paper I saw at a MR conference was at the May 2017 day conference by Simon Neve of Wizu fame. I am not usually afraid of jumping on the bandwagon but in that same conference, Chris Davison and I…
Askiaface: moving forward By Paul Nevin Askiafield 15th November 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter In order for us to continue maintaining and improving our face-to-face iOS and Android apps, we continually need to update the components upon which these are built; namely the base SDKs provided by Apple and Google. Of course, this implies that we sometimes also need to drop support for older versions of these development tools. Either because maintaining them is time-consuming or because of breaking changes introduced in subsequent platform updates. We have therefore decided to drop support for such obsolete mobile OS versions. Here’s the breakdown: iOS…
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…
We’re hiring a support techie in Paris By Paul Nevin Jobs 30th September 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Description Askia is a software vendor for market research. You will join our tech support and professional services team. We are based in France, United Kingdom, Germany, USA and South Korea. Our software suite is used to design surveys, manage survey fieldwork and for data analysis. Your main objective will be to use your expertise on issues our users may experience while using our applications. Your main tasks will be: Technical support & consulting by email, telephone and occasionally on-site User training & software installations (in France or…
ESOMAR Congress ’19 & Askia party with Lucid! By Paul Nevin Social 7th August 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Once again the Askia team will be attending ESOMAR Congress ’19 on September 8-11 at Edinburgh’s International Conference Centre. For those of you who plan to attend, we’ll be at booth #20 in the conference centre (right next to the Black Box) so don’t hesitate to drop by for a chat! But the major news is that we’ll be hosting our annual Askia party immediately following ESOMAR’s Welcome reception. And for the second year in a row, we’re delighted to have the great people of Lucid co-host with…
What’s new in Askiafield 5.5.2 By Paul Nevin Askiafield 8th July 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter After talking about the latest version of AskiaDesign 5.5.2, the newest major release of our data collection platform, askiafield, is also finally available. It includes many new features, some fixes and performance improvements. So, what’s new in askiafield 5.5.2? You can check out the fully detailed release notes , take a look at previous askiafield articles or just glance at the most notable new features below: Default quota settings You can now apply default quota settings on a per survey basis. This option is available in the Supervisor…
Hearing voices By Richard Collins Social 2nd July 2019 ShareFacebookLinkedInTwitter Voice tech is everywhere today. In the car, in the kitchen, possibly even in the bedroom. And this is just the start of it. Love it or loathe it, there is a wave of new voice technology coming that will revolutionise our world. And survey research is no exception. You are bound to start hearing voices… So Askia devoted two webinars to partner technology that is changing the way that we can utilise voice in survey research. Tapping the power of voice to build better web surveys Our…
