Avante is a full-service, survey research organization with domain expertise in all types of online survey research, mail surveys, and statistical analysis of survey data. Avante's leadership staff has over 18 years of experience in quantitative survey research, and is supported by its experienced team of project managers, statisticians, survey design experts, MBA / Ph.D. professionals, and Java programmers. Avante specializes in the administration of online market research surveys, customer satisfaction and tracking studies, job satisfaction surveys with or without benchmarking indexes, alumni surveys, multi-language surveys, and custom development solutions.

All online data collection is hosted on Avante's dedicated servers using its proprietary survey engine and reporting software - nick named COSDAT. Avante's software supports a myriad of question types and features including advanced skip logic, piping, randomized response choices, pre-assignments, variable inserts, interactive maps, 2,000 character text boxes, and real-time quota monitoring. Avante's hardware includes servers running on Linux with application servers and MySQL database. 100 MB of burstable bandwidth is provided by a data center with a redundant network of multiple fiber trunks and backup generators.

Proprietary Panel of Respondents of Avante was launched in mid 2003 - today it spans across the globe and it delivers high quality, balanced sampling (HHI, gender, age, geography, and ethnicity) among general consumers, IT professionals, business executives, small business owners, and numerous other targeted selects. The Panel Book of Avante be downloaded from the site or requested through email. We have distinctly identified panels in various countries called the Teen Panel, IT Panel, C-Panel, Architects Panel, Homemakers Panel, Sports Panel, Medical Panel, Professionals Panel, Engineer's Panel, Industry Panel etc. to name a few.

Avante has extensive expertise in administering full-service mail surveys ranging from print and mail services to collection, data entry, and reporting of the results. Avante has participated in large scale mailings and in the previous one year printed, inserted and delivered a huge no. of questionnaires. All data entry is provided at Avante's corporate offices, and includes language translation services. Avante has also administered numerous mail and online combined programs and can provide experienced advice on how best to reach a targeted population.

Avante uses its proprietary software - COSDAT , and is committed to high quality reporting with clear, cogent and concise presentation of the findings. Avante offers four different layers of reporting services tailored to meet each client's specific needs: raw data reporting (ASCII, Excel or SPSS with labels); basic reporting (top-line reports, collated verbatim, and cross tabulations); advanced reporting (banner tabulations, segmentation, filtering, and significance testing); and professional services (statistician, weighted analysis, cluster analysis, conjoint, multivariate, and PowerPoint reports).