Qualtrics

Qualtrics
Private
Industry Research Software
Founded 2002
Headquarters Provo, Utah
Other offices: Dublin, Ireland; Sydney, Australia; Washington, D.C.; Seattle, Washington; Dallas, Texas
Key people
Ryan Smith, CEO[1] Co-founder, Scott M. Smith, Co-founder, Jared Smith, Co-founder, and Stuart Orgill, Co-founder
Products Qualtrics Insights Platform, Qualtrics Employee Engagement, Qualtrics 360, Vocalize, Site Intercept, Target Audience, Panels, Vocalize
Number of employees
1000+
Website Qualtrics.com

Qualtrics is a private research software company, based in Provo, Utah. The company was founded in 2002 by Scott M. Smith, Ryan Smith, Jared Smith and Stuart Orgill.[2]

Qualtrics software enables users to do many kinds of online data collection[1] and analysis including market research, customer satisfaction and loyalty, product and concept testing, employee evaluations and website feedback.[3]

In 2012, the company received a $70 million investment from Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, the largest joint investment to date by these two firms.[4]

In September 2014, Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners returned in Series B funding, led by Insight Venture Partners worth $150 million, a record for a Utah-based company.[5]

Quantitative statistical analysis performed with Qualtrics is cited in a number of professional and academic journals[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Qualtrics and Wikipedia

Qualtrics' services are used by the Wikipedia project to process feedback from Wikipedia search pages through a "Give us your feedback" link at the bottom of a search results page.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 Scott, Martin (27 August 2012). "Customer research easier in digital era". USA Today. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. Lizette Chapman. "Qualtrics Taps Accel, Sequoia For First-Ever VC Round". WSJ.
  3. "Qualtrics: Online Survey Software & Insight Platform". Qualtrics.
  4. Anthony Ha. "Qualtrics Raises $70M From Accel And Sequoia: "The Biggest Software Company You Haven’t Heard Of"?". TechCrunch. AOL.
  5. Joshua Brustein. "How Qualtrics Turned Online Surveys Into a $1 Billion Business - Businessweek". Businessweek.com.
  6. Albaum, G. S., & Smith, S. M. (2006). Handbook of Marketing Research . London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications. byu.edu (PDF)
  7. Strutz, M.L. (2008). A Retrospective Study of Skills, Traits, Influences, and School Experiences of Talented Engineers. ASEE North Central Section Conference ilin.asee.org (PDF)
  8. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carolina Population Center (CPC), Measure Evaluation, September 2007, (57) p. (SR-07-39| USAID Cooperative Agreement No. GPO-A-00-03-00003-00), db.jhuccp.org
  9. Brunson, K. W. (2008). Electronic Textbooks: An Empirical Study of Adoption Potential. The Liberty Business Review VI.1, 44–55, works.bepress.com
  10. (Winter 2007–2008). Journal of New Communications Research, 100, books.google.com
  11. Zikmund, William G.; Babin, Barry J. Essentials of Marketing Research (with Qualtrics Card) 4th Edition.
  12. Zikmund, William G.; Babin, Barry J.; Jon C. Carr, Jon C.; Griffin Business Research Methods, Mitch (March 12, 2012). Business Research Methods (with Qualtrics Printed Access Card) 9th Edition. South-Western College Pub;. ISBN 978-1111826925.
  13. Feinberg, Fred M.; Kinnear, Thomas; Taylor, James R. (February 28, 2012). Modern Marketing Research: Concepts, Methods, and Cases (with Qualtrics Printed Access Card) 2nd Edition. South-Western College Pub;. ISBN 978-1133188964.
  14. Churchill, Gilbert A.; Brown, Tom J.; Suter, Tracy A. (April 22, 2009). Basic Marketing Research 7th Edition. South-Western College Pub;. ISBN 978-1439041390.
  15. Iacobucci, Dawn; Churchill, Gilbert A. (October 20, 2009). Marketing Research: Methodological Foundations (with Qualtrics Card) 10th Edition. South-Western College Pub; 10 edition. ISBN 978-1439081013.
  16. Malhotra, Naresh K. (September 18, 2008). Basic Marketing Research & Qualtrics Pkg / Edition 3. Prentice Hall. ISBN 9780137155934.
  17. Sue, V. M., & Ritter, L.A. (2007). Conducting Online Surveys. United States of America: Sage Publications.
  18. https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eLmmEQA9600f8zP

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