In order to conduct a survey you need more than just a questionnaire and a computer to run it on. You also need to have a system which can manage your survey and manage the case records that will be created.

Organisations that run surveys regularly will probably have existing infrastructure which can be used to manage the conduct and operation of those surveys. For them it will be sufficient to modify their interfaces to interact with Blaise questionnaires. For smaller organisations, or ones with limited survey infrastructure, however, it will be necessary to develop some facilities that can provide some survey and case management functions.

This paper describes a basic survey management system that has been developed for use by three organisations that had minimal or no survey infrastructure before choosing to use Blaise for their surveys.