“It was crucial for us to quickly turnaround the consultation data so our Councilors could develop their draft 2013-17 Council Plan. By using NVivo our project team could quickly generate visualizations, frequency tables and customized detailed reports. When these reports were considered alongside the participant profiles for each data set …

“It’s an excellent decision-making tool; it provides scientific, defendable numbers for contingency, risk ranking, etc.There are too many useful features to count—but its flexibility of use, particularly because it is Excel based—may be the most valuable.”