Annik was established in the year 2000 and currently is one of the leading global providers of market research support services in the country. Recognized as pioneers in the outsourcing space, we have established operations successfully in India and China. We have a scalable model and the current combined seating capacity is over 500. We provide 24 hours coverage to support clients across the globe.
Annik has over 250 person-years of team leaders, service delivery managers and other relevant experience. We have one of the largest and experienced MR support teams in the country. Research managers are seasoned client facing projects directors specializing in CPG, Healthcare, IT segments
Annik is a one stop solution for all the Market Research Operations support
Annik's survey programming team has extensive experience of scripting over 12000 surveys a year. The team supports survey programming in multiple programming packages which are leveraged to support specific client requirements.
We also provide survey fielding, monitoring and data handling services along with survey scripting service.
Annik has expertise in various tools such as ConfirmIT, SPSS-Dimensions, mrInterview (mrStudio Interview Module), Vovici, Datstat to deliver simple to complex programming including latest techniques. The team also has expertise in variety of programming languages including Java, ASP (VB script, Java script). We also support survey translations in multiple foreign languages.
We are the pioneers in embedding flash tools and integrate them into various survey programming platforms.
Good data leads to good research and knowing your customers inside out. Annik helps support with intelligent sample and effective fieldwork. Annik supports most of its clients with
Annik supports clients with managing their sample through various platforms and proprietary tools. The team has an average experience of over two years in managing sample. The sample management team works on various platforms like ConfirmIt and MR Dimensions.
The various activities supported by the panel management team include
Annik also supports in developing customized panel management portals and tool.
We specialize in the designing of questions/surveys. These surveys can be programmed in variety of programming languages.
Our research team works on the conceptualizing of studies with the client. Clients need to provide the aim and objective of the research and the rest will be recommended by the Annik research manager. Depending upon the budget the study is designed and the specs are finalized.
Our team of experts, while designing questionnaire closely administer the following:
We specialize in the programming of online surveys. These surveys can be programmed across various platforms. With structured in-house processes and multi step quality checks we ensure high quality with fastest turn around time to quickly field the surveys. With skilled resources and sound infrastructure we can handle:
As a process Annik send out the test link for clients feedback before making the survey live. The team would then support on sending the emails to the respondents and monitor the field during the soft launch.
Annik can also send out the xml code via email or the program files on FTP for the client to download if the hosting is done at client's server.
Online Reporting As soon as the field starts (for surveys programmed in Confirmit) we provide our clients access to online portal to monitor the interview progress through Confirmit online reporting. The reports can have tables as well as charts. Frequency, cross-tabs and timeseries reports can be included in online reporting.
Confirmit Reportal For clients who need online access to advanced analysis, Confirmit Reportal is offered with dash boards, specified tabs/banners and with statistics (Count, Mean, Mode, Median, Weighted mean, significance testing with confidence levels 80/85/90/95 and chi-square testing).
Browser checking for survey links For surveys having embedded third part tools/scripts, custom javascript codes/flash etc. we test the link on different platforms and browsers to make sure they work correctly on all platform. We test link son below platform and browsers.
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Annik provides world class Data Cleaning Services. We bring data quality and data integration capabilities to our clients. We also specialize in developing customized easy to use data cleaning tools, data tabulation tools with advanced analysis.
If the survey is programmed and hosted on Annik's Server, the data cleaning team can pull out the data directly for performing the cleaning rules. Or else the client can share the data for cleaning in a variety of different formats which include:
Annik provides an interactive framework for data cleaning that tightly integrates transformation and discrepancy detection. The tools that we use for cleaning data provide data management functionality for the following:
Annik has a strong team who specializes in Tabbing Services. Various tools used by our include our own proprietary tabbing solutions as well as off the shelf packages like Quantum, SPSS, MR Dimensions.
Basis the analysis plan provided/created by Annik, we process the data and create cross tabs. The team will provide the following deliverables
Annik has dedicated teams for Charting and developing report shells. All charting resources form a part of data processing team and hence can understand market research data to bring value to the charts to be developed. The charting team is specialized in creating meaningful charts from scratch or with the help of templates provided. We also specialize in developing applications for automated dashboards and automated charts for trackers.
We at Annik understand your business needs and provide a blend of services:
The charting team has a library of simple, complex and meaningful charts to pick from.
Apart from the regular operations support, Annik also provides services which are largely in supporting Client project directors and carrying out advanced research services like Multivariate analysis.
Experience Our Research team comprises of a strong team of project managers with an average experience of 8 years.
Domain The project managers are responsible and participates through the complete life cycle of a study. The research background helps leveraging the experience across multiple service lines. Research experience helps in augmenting data and analyzing key findings.
Quality The Project manager sketches out a high level project plan and monitors the progress and the quality stages of support across each service. Annik follows CMMI and Six Sigma approaches to maintain quality. Process improvement initiatives are identified and Quality initiative projects executed for continuous improvement of the all the processes.
Value add The project manager performs a variety of tasks which are a value add to the project as a whole.
The researcher cum project manager studies the objective and the questionnaire provided. Basis the questionnaire the project manager.
In the market, most outsourcing companies are focused on Market Research Ops which require technical/ programming/ charting skills whereas Annik has moved up the value chain and has started offering Report writing services.
We at Annik believe that Analysis & Report Writing requires Researcher skills which are quite different from programming or charting skills.
Annik provides value to its clients through its highly experienced team of researchers who undertakes report writing, which includes interpretation and narrative writing basis the data.
We build methodology that help clients in making statistical models on a regular or ad-hoc basis. We perform analysis on the data provided. Our group of statistical analyst helps with different research methodologies and designing of studies. They help select an appropriate statistical procedure, identify the various parts of your output, or interpret results.
Statistical analysis that we can perform include:
The statistical data processing team, use statistical software packages such as SPSS to tabulate results. We uses advanced iterative weighting algorithms to compute weights to conform to desired proportions and deviate least from the original data. The statistical analysis reports including bar charts, graphs etc.