Verified User in Biotechnology
UB
Verified User in Biotechnology
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Incredibly positive experience with an attentive team at FocusVision/InterVu!"
5/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

The team at FocusVision InterVu is so responsive to all of my (many) inquiries, questions, and concerns. We had a number of factors to consider for our program, and the team was able to offer helpful solutions to all of our hurdles. They were consistently available by email but also met with us a number of times beforehand for walkthroughs and demos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

This won't be relevant in a few months, but I think the platform perhaps could be aesthetically upgraded a bit. Again, I know this is in the pipeline for them, so not relevant in a few months! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
UP
Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Serious Customer Service Associated with Dropping the Ball and Not Solving the Problem"
0.5/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

The platform is good, and the tech support people are helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

They did not create transcripts on time and didn't even try to resolve the problem. I was furious and could not get anyone's attention. They just don't give a s@#%. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pavan G.
PG
Pavan G.
Associate Programmer, Survey Operations
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Just loved the functionalities and rich user interface of Confirmit"
4/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

The best about confimit is its simple and rich graphical user interface for creating any kind of survey along with custom setup.

One can download the data in various formats as per their business requirements.

Here we have various types of inbuilt questions types, Plugins integration, APIs in order to fulfill our needs.

Data scheduling and data edit is a good and quite simple task anyone can learn and do faster.

Also, I would love to mention that the Manual of confirmit is well prepared and anyone can learn without having a prior knowledge of scripting or coding, I was one of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Implementing least fill or priority should be inbuilt intstead of writing a lengthy code for it manually

Backend codes are invisible unlike similar tool Decipher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yashwant S.
YS
Yashwant S.
Analyst
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Overall good palform to design complex survyes"
4/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

survey compatibility is good to compare to another survey platforms. It supports lots of python functions, Jquery methods etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Some mobile survey elements are still incompatible due to we have lost several clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
CM
Verified User in Market Research
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"TOP NOTCH LIVE SUPPORT"
4/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

I use InterVu primarily for focus group work (some 1:1s) and the live tech support is a godsend. It eliminates so much stress to have the tech load the stimuli and the participants into the 'room' and assist with any troubleshooting for attendees while I focus on my actual role (researcher, not tech support!). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Varying levels of professionalism across live techs (which you will see anywhere...across any role you have some folks who are more green or less confident than others...) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
UM
Verified User in Market Research
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very helpful survey platform."
3/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

Very helpful survey platform, as more and more new question types bring in, for the question setting point, It can meet various requirements. Looking forward the more function we can have in the future.

As a mean while, the data output formats are multiple ways, which can bring us a very effective working way to analyze the data(Excel and JMP). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Recently we China team is facing a suffering challenge for the slow speed response in Decipher. No matter we editing or downloading data, either panelists answer our links, The most frustrated us is that it can impact our data quality and passion to participant in our study especially during screening period. As they often need to try many times before submit successfully. For me and my colleagues, it shut down our working efficiency strongly. For this point, I think this is an urgent need to improve for this moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
AM
Verified User in Market Research
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Above average platform and service team, sales and pricing needs work"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

The Decipher platform is above average in terms of what it offers both for programming and data processing. When escalated, issues are addressed effectively. Our current CSM is excellent.

The Kinesis platform also has good aspects for community management and is more user friendly than our past platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Helpdesk team has rarely provided a positive point of interaction to date, though I am told that is an area they are committed to improving.

Max/diff programming is not intuitive and you are charges too much money for the FV team to program these exercises unless you are willing to spend a lot of time haggling on costs.

Pricing and the sales team in general have not been positive points of interaction for our team.

Kinesis platform needs work to bring it up to speed/on par with other types of community platforms, particularly for the platform front end, and there is no way to integrate Kinesis and Revelation, which doesn't make much sense since they are owned by the same company and could be powerful complementary tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
AM
Verified User in Market Research
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very good, intuitive platform"
4/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

Very easy to use, as a fieldwork manager I like how FocusVision PMs get in touch with all relevant parties directly i.e. recruiters, moderators, sim-trans etc. to ensure everyone is set up and they get the necessary info from each. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

The platform can only be shown in one language. For example, if I am conducting research in Germany there is no way I can have the platform in German for those that want it, and English for the rest of the attendees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RR
Rajesh R.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Decipher is an Excellent Tool : TehriHills Consulting (Rajesh Rana)"
5/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

We use Decipher as our primary survey programming tool. We use this for all programming and analysis purposes.

I am using Decipher for multiple clients on their logins as well as on helping some client on our own licence. We are programming more than 120 surveys per year which is mainly for banking domain, technology and bigger consulting firms. Where complexity level is super high and data is complex. This required very complicated scripting. I have used almost all top tools available in market but I prefer only decipher due to it's smoothness on programming.

Decipher is also flexible to use jquery and it has smooth programming to program conjoint surveys. I love decipher because of data quality. I didn't get such accuracy for data in other tools. We have used campaign management too, which is another awesome thing here. Though mostly we use full service DIY for campaign.

Last but not least, it's support is amazing. They respond so quickly with solution on 95% time. I appreciate decipher support specifically. I never ever have such type of support on other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

I am using other client's licence and own our own licence too. For my personal use, i feel licence cost is expensive, per complete cost is little bit high. This is basically the sole reason sometime I have to use other tool where hosting is free.

The dashboard programming is little bit complex. I have asked help to show same IR, Mediam, Mean time which is showing under response summery page. But seems it is not easily possible to do here. I feel this is the main area, where it needs improvement to add basic summery easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Market Research
UM
Verified User in Market Research
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Quality survey programming tool that needs better integrations/flexibility"
4/5
What do you like best about Forsta?

Decipher is a clean, relatively easy to use software for survey programming. It is built by survey programmers who understand the market research field. There are a lot of capabilities that make it quite good as a programmer or as an ancillary member of the research team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Forsta?

Compared to other similar platforms, there appear to be fewer integrations or ways of scaling Decipher up to meet other business needs. What you see is what you get. Unfortunately, the Decipher support team is lacking the ability to meet some of our needs and that is disappointing. There are also some finicky things like having to run random data for every survey change (including a one character text edit that doesn't impact logic). Overall it is good software, but it doesn't wow us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.