Success Measures Data System
The Success Measures Data System (SMDS) is our proprietary user-friendly, multi-language platform that supports your efforts to evaluate the outcomes of your work. Organizations of all sizes and levels of experience can manage an evaluation process efficiently and affordably in one secure online environment. Designed for single and multi-site evaluations, subscribers can easily collect, manage, analyze and share outcome data over time and across properties and communities.
We continue to expand the system’s language capacity to accommodate the needs of the diverse communities we work in. With English and Spanish provided as baseline languages, SMDS supports more than 30 languages, including Chinese, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese, with instructions and survey tools in respondents’ language of choice. Ensuring consistency, the system aggregates the findings across all languages so that data can be analyzed together.
With flexibility in mind, the survey or observation measurement tools appropriate for your community and evaluation can easily be inserted into SMDS from many sources. We can help you select or modify from our existing library of hundreds of question sets, create customized versions to fit your specific needs or incorporate or adapt survey tools you are already using. Our existing tools are particularly well-suited to capture and document community and resident experience.
Data collection is accomplished using the methods that best suit the needs and technology access of your community and the capacity of your organization, including in person, email or online links, on mobile devices or paper or through spreadsheet imports. Regardless of the collection method, SMDS will blend the data seamlessly for analysis, reporting and sharing results with stakeholders.
SMDS includes an integrated 24/7 Help Desk for technical support as well as topic-specific guides for commonly used functions.
To learn more about how SMDS can support your evaluation efforts and how to become a subscriber, contact us: [email protected]