Blaise® System Information
Blaise® is a full 32-bit program that runs on Windows 95® or later versions. The current release of
Blaise has multiuser network capability under LAN operating systems.
Specific Modules in Blaise
- The Data Entry Program is used for interviewing, data editing, and forms-based data entry.
Many styles of presentation and four modes of behavior are available.
- The CATI Call Management System and call scheduler support time zones, groups of interviewers,
time slices, and user-defined strategies.
- BtEmula is a CATI emulation facility for load testing on LANs.
- Manipula is a batch system used to import, export, and recode data. It can be used to generate
reports, manipulate data, manage data, and much more.
- Maniplus (extra module licensed separately) is an interactive extension to Manipula. It is a
shell tool that can be used for CAPI laptop management and management of in-office data editing and
data flow, among other things.
- Cameleon is a meta data system and language that can recast Blaise data descriptions into one
for SAS, SPSS, or other statistical packages or database languages. You can also use Cameleon to
create customized translation setups for your organization's needs.
- The Structure Browser allows you to view the structure and hierarchy of your instrument.
- The Database Browser viewer allows you to see the values of selected fields in a Blaise
database.
- Hospital is a data integrity module that can check the integrity of the data set and rebuild
it if necessary.
- BASCULA (extra module licensed separately) is a weighting package with linear weighting
(post-stratification, regression, with qualitative and quantitative variables) and multiplicative
weighting.
