Thank you to all the ESdat Users that completed our recent “Customer Opinion Survey”, we received overwhelming positive feedback and some great suggestions on improvements.

We have published a summary of the full results here and have included a number of the findings and quotes below for your reference:

98.8% of users said they would recommend the software to a colleague.

It was voted easy to use, this is what some people said:

• “Its simple, efficient and easy to learn” Hamish Campbell, ERM
• “Ease of use, generic/flexible, standard platforms (Access/SQL Server), support” Luke Cameron, Golder Associate's
• “Quick and easy tables and dataset overview, great QA help” Yvonne Binai, GHD
• “Ability to pick up guideline exceedances automatically” Belle Casement, Senversa
• “Good for large volumes of laboratory results”, Tom Madill, Tonkin & Taylor

ESdat saves time:

All users saved time. Time saved was at least 20% of their time analyzing data with ESdat. Over 50% of respondents save more than 40%.

(From the question: When compared to other methods, how much office time analyzing data do you save (on average) when using ESdat?)

Users sighted a broad section of features as important, including:

• “Time savings, especially for long-running sites (historical data). Reduction of errors (no transcription)” Amy Smith, Parsons Brinckerhoff
• “I like that I don't have to go through the data to find Guidelines exceedances” Ryan Baxter, EBA Engineering
• “Laboratory reporting formats/QA/QC/TIME SAVING” Cameron Kay, Golder Associates Pty Ltd
• “Generate chem data and borelogs within minutes. Provides a data base of all lab reports for each job” James Coley, FMG Engineering
• “Accuracy of data” Tho Tran, OTEK

We received a number of suggestions and these have been implemented in the subsequently released version 4.2.