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NIPO celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Nfield!

For 10 years, Nfield has been the leading cloud-based SaaS platform for the professional market research industry

Key metrics

Since the launch on 29 March 2013, Nfield has grown to a large-scale platform used for data collection around the globe.

Number of completed interviews

Number of customers

Number of domains hosted

Nfield updates communicated

Nfield worldwide regional Azure deployments

Nfield development sprints (releases)

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Number of Nfield app downloads

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Milestones

In 10 years, we have released many groundbreaking features while continuously growing the usage on our platform.

2023 feature

Automatic survey clean-up

Keeping your Nfield domain clean is essential for maintaining compliancy with data regulations. Here’s why.

2022 feature

Migration CAPI to Nfield Manager

NIPO migrated all the functionality of the classic "CAPI Manager" to the (online) "Nfield Manager" by migrating the different CAPI scenarios from the CAPI Manager to the Nfield Manager one by one.

2022 certificate

NIPO attains fourth Microsoft Partner Network Gold competency

The Microsoft Partner Network has upgraded NIPO’s Security competency status from Silver to Gold. We now have Microsoft’s highest possible recognition for 4 competencies.

2022 organization

Opening our development hub in Porto

Founding the development hub in Porto is part of a strategy of our mother company to focus more on advanced technology capabilities, first by recruiting data and software engineers to work on our research platform.

2021 feature

Isolated Interviewing

With the roll-out of our Isolated Interview feature, we eliminated the risk of suffering from “noisy neighbors”, preventing that excessive resource use by some causing performance problems for all.

2021 feature

Data repositories

Nfield now delivers real-time insights while a survey is still in progress, via our new Data Repository feature, which provides a continuous data delivery pipeline straight into your dashboard.

2021 organization

New office opening: Asia Pacific support from Mumbai

In recent years we have seen a strong growth of our business in the Asia Pacific region, ow followed by the opening of our new office in Mumbai.

2021 usage

Nfield sets new activity record, 100K+ interviews done in 24 hours

Nfield surpassed a significant milestone on 20 May 2021, doing 104,758 completed interviews per 24 hours barrier, without showing the slightest level of stress.

2021 usage

20M+ Nfield completes done in a year!

In 2021 we passed the 20M annual completes barrier for the first time, hosting 20,250,052 completed interviews done by our customers.

2020 feature

Fieldwork Overview report

Nfield comes with a build-in reporting tool, that we keep enriching with new features like the Fieldwork Overview report.

2020 feature

Audit trail

The Audit Trail lets you follow the journey of the respondent through a survey. Which questions were seen, in what order, which navigation was used, how many times a question was shown and how long it took to answer.

2019 feature

Nfield China deployment

Uniquely faster experience for China surveys thanks to new local Nfield deployment, making Nfield the only international market research platform approved as an Internet Content Provider by the Chinese authorities.

2019 feature

Local data storage

We have developed the ability to separate survey deployment from storage of respondent data. E.g. you can deploy a survey from the APAC server in Hong Kong and store the respondent data on a server in Singapore.

2019 feature

Power BI reporting

As of April 2019, users of Nfield Online have been able to benefit from integration of Power BI for generating shareable Fieldwork Overview reports.

2019 feature

Single Sign On

Nfield supports a new way of authentication in Nfield CAPI Manager and Nfield Manager, using Office 365 authentication.

2018 security

GDPR compliance

Nfield includes features to assist you in your efforts to address GDPR controls. Such features include the ability to search cross surveys for respondents, to delete or pseudomize interviews and to anonymize data in surveys.

2017 feature

Focus on stability improvements

In 2017, many updates of Nfield were released that were focused on the stability of Nfield.

2017 organization

DataExpert partnership

As many of our customers don’t have (enough of) the necessary expertise to do all activities related to Nfield in-house, NIPO has teamed up with DataExpert to offer advanced personalization of Nfield survey questionnaires.

2017 organization

Opening our development hub in Madrid

To further speed up development, we added additional development resources in an offshore/nearshore location. With the NIPO Software Development Hub in Spain we managed to add the right quality of software developers.

2016 organization

10M+ Nfield completes done in a year!

In 2016 we passed the 10M annual completes barrier for the first time, hosting 10,653,495 completed interviews done by our customers.

2016 feature

Nfield theme builder

This tool was released to let customers change the standard look and feel of the Nfield Chicago template for most of the elements. Allows you to select theme presets, upload an existing themes and change the setting of each element.

2015 feature

CAPI location validation

Location tracking is particularly useful when you are doing more complex face2face research that requires a representative or even distribution across regions and/or locations

2015 feature

NfieldChicago template

NfieldChicago is a template with a new, fresh, contemporary, and dynamic look & feel. Your respondents and interviewers will enjoy a richer and clearer survey experience.

2015 organization

First NIPO Academy session

On 25 February 2015 we organized the first NIPO Academy session with a basic introduction to Nfield, an explanation on our cloud-based solution and how to use the Nfield Manager.

2015 certificate

1st ISO 27001-2013 ISO certification

The first year that NIPO has passed the ISO 27001-2013 audit without problems. Very reassuring to all Nfield users, who know they can continually rely on the platform to uphold the standards that they, themselves are committed to.

2015 usage

>5M Nfield completes done in a year!

In 2015 we passed the 5M annual completes barrier for the first time, hosting 5,605,327 completed interviews done by our customers.

2014 certificate

Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency

Yes, we did it! We achieved the Gold Cloud Platform Competency in Microsoft's Partner Program. The Cloud Platform competency is aimed at recognizing premium suppliers of cloud-based software and services.

2014 feature

Nfield Online release

In December 2014 NIPO launched Nfield Online, its newest child in the Nfield family. Nfield Online is our new CAWI platform aimed at research companies that want to run large amounts of device agnostic online surveys.

2014 usage

1st million Nfield completes done!

In August 2014 we reached the landmark of having done 1,000,000 Nfield completes.

2013 feature

First channel Nfield CAPI with Android app

In Mid-2013, we officially launched Nfield CAPI for Android. Within a relatively short period of time, many research projects and global partnerships have been secured and formed, using the Nfield CAPI technology.

2013 feature

The launch of Nfield

On 29 March 2013 Nfield was released! Our cloud-based survey platform that is scalable, can do simple to complex survey, has bulletproof security and an open architecture.

Credentials

Next to customer appreciation, NIPO and Nfield also have received external recognition from a/o these parties.

Achieving Gold Competency confirms that partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology.

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In 2021 Nfield has passed the ISO 27001-2013 audit without problems for the 6th successive year. Download our security factsheet, that contains a copy of the current ISO certificate.

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