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 local area network (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 computer-assisted telephone interviewing (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 metadata system and language that can recast Blaise data descriptions into one for
SAS, SPSS, or other statistical packages or database languages. Users can also use Cameleon to create customized translation setups
for an organization's needs.
- Delta is an advanced questionnaire documentation tool that reads the Blaise data model meta
information file and displays the questionnaire in the format of a Tree View. Item detail is available in either a textual format
or a flow diagram.
- Internet Server Manager communicates with the server or servers to server groups, load and unload
internet applications on the server, and monitor server activity.
- Internet Workshop is used to set the appropriate XSL style sheet, the Blaise menu file, various
layout elements for groupings of questions, and server parameters.
- The Structure Browser allows users to view the structure and hierarchy of their instrument.
- The Database Browser viewer allows users 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.
