Data Format Options
Zarca’s Export Manager offers users a comprehensive list of format options
for exporting data from the platform to external applications.
MS Excel - Excel export provides a popular spreadsheet format option that is
widely-used and is a convention in the professional world.
CSV - “Comma-Separated Variable”, also sometimes referred as a “flat file”,
uses ASCII text and separates column values with a comma.
XML - “Extensible Markup Language” is a subset of “Standard Generalized
Markup Language” (SGML) and allows users to share survey data using their
own markup tags.
SPSS - This software package facilitates management, analysis, sorting,
merging and manipulating of survey data.
MS Access - Another widely-used MS Office application, Access can store
survey data accessible by query and can be used for benchmarking and
longitudinal analysis.
MS Word - MS Office’s popular word processing application can import survey
data for use in reports and other documents.
HTML - This format option allows users to create a Web-ready version of
survey results to facilitate sharing among various stakeholder groups.
Zarca1 - This “in-house” spreadsheet application “looks and acts” like MS
Excel and is another effective format for data export.
