WinCati lets you use affordable, widely available PC technology
WinCati runs on a standard Windows network to ensure low costs and high compatibility. Questionnaire-authoring, interviewing and supervisor workstations must run Windows.
For auto dialing and Rapid Dial, you can use any modem supported by the version of Windows running on your interviewing stations. Voice-capture and sound playback, requires additional hardware. Super View requires that your network uses TCP/IP.
The system requirements for your questionnaire-authoring, supervisor and interviewer workstations do not depend on the number of interviewer stations that you have. The server requirements do. The interviewer station requirements below are for WinCati with Sensus as the questionnaire authoring system. The WinCati Mixed Mode option requires a Web server running Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) in addition to a file server.
The following are the specifications for the WinCati workstations, servers and network.
| Component | Minimum Requirements |
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| Questionnaire-Authoring, Supervisor, or Interviewer Station | PC running Windows XP * SP3
Windows Vista
Windows 7 | | Pentium 1 GHz (32-bit or 64-bit), 512+ MB of RAM, At least 2 GB of availabe hard drive space | | *Sensus questionnaire-authoring stations cannot run XP Home Edition, which does not permit the installation of IIS | | File Server (facilities with fewer than 100 stations) | Pentium IV PC | | 1 GHz processor (32-bit or 64-bit) | | 1 GByte of RAM | | Windows 2003/2008 Server | | Hard drive with 1 GByte of free space depending on size and number of studies | | File Server (facilities with over than 100 stations) | Pentium IV PC | | 2 GHz processor (32-bit or 64-bit) | | 1 GByte of RAM | | Windows 2003/2008 Server | | Hard drive with 1 GByte of free space depending on size and number of studies | | Network | WIndows 2003/2008 | | Protocols: TCP/IP |
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