Polluxi is Latin and means, "to serve up, to offer", which is exactly what Polluxi does. It is a complete web-based surveying system that encapsulates all types of polls and referenda from simple surveys to handling elections. It is specifically designed to eliminate the hassles of paperwork in conducting surveys and tabulating the results. It is also designed to increase the volume of feedback.

Polluxi is a complete surveying system designed to revolutionize the way you conduct surveys.  Its design has three main goals that are accomplished through the use of Polluxi.  Firstly, Polluxi is designed to eliminate the hassles of paperwork involved in conducting surveys.  There is no more need to distribute, collect, and tabulate countless hard-copy surveying materials.  Secondly, it is designed to increase the volume of feedback received from conducted surveys.  This is because it is easier than ever to provide feedback on a survey using the power of the web.  Thirdly, Polluxi is designed to use software that does not require licensing fees nor upgrade costs ultimately reducing your costs but not quality.  These three goals are discussed in more detail in this brochure.

Polluxi is surveying software that allows you to conduct any survey you would need to conduct, receive the results almost instantly, and produce powerful hard-copy reports of the survey.  Best of all, it can be custom-tailored to your needs at a marginal cost since the essential “groundwork” or “foundation” of the Polluxi system is already completed and it is specifically designed to accept new features or expansions with feasibility.

Reducing time and hassle

Polluxi is designed to eliminate the hassles of paperwork and calculating / tabulating the results of a survey.  All this is automatically handled by Polluxi and provides you with either a simple bottom-line figure, or a complex set of graphs and charts depending on what statistics you’re looking for.  Instead of distributing hard-copy surveys in recipients’ mailboxes, you would send them an email with a web address to the survey system where they can cast their votes.  To post a survey live on the web for the audience to see, it is very easy involving only a few clicks of the mouse button from your office computer.

Ease of Use

It is true that many people do not take the time to fill out surveys.  What are some of the reasons for this?

• Unwilling to submit the survey back to the surveyor
• An often dry and unpleasant experience
• Not enough information as to why the feedback is needed

Polluxi changes all those things with its revolutionary ease-of-use design.  Polluxi operates on the web, which allows users to fill out surveys online from their home computers.  They do not need to pick-up or drop-off the survey.  Furthermore, Polluxi allows you to post as much information, external documents and attachments as necessary with the survey so as to keep the user informed as to why the survey is being conducted.  Also since the survey is conducted on the web, the survey environment is ergonomically friendly providing the user with a much more pleasant experience completing the survey.  By “ergonomically friendly”, this means the addition of graphics, video resources, sound resources, and anything else necessary to improve the user experience.

Reducing Costs

Polluxi uses open-source software that carries no licensing fees and no upgrade fees.  The open-source platform that Polluxi utilizes is known as LAMP.  In addition to this, open-source software tends to be more stable and more secure than most conventional commercial software.  So with higher quality and no monetary costs, what are the drawbacks?  The major drawback of open-source software use is that there is no technical support provided by the manufacturer / vendor, but this is not a problem for you as the consumer because extollIT backs-up Polluxi with full on-site technical support, which includes the open-source software it uses.

Up to this point you have been thinking about the types of surveys you would like to conduct and whether Polluxi can handle them.  Polluxi is so flexible that TWUSA will be using it not only to post surveys, but to completely handle council elections as well!

Creating Surveys

The interface for creating surveys is an easy step-by-step process that allows you to create a dynamically driven survey / voting web site with only a few clicks of the mouse buttons!  Here are the steps involved in creating a survey:

1. Make a brief summary of the survey adding appropriate font styling.
2. Optionally add a picture to accompany the summary.
3. Write a question on the survey adding appropriate font styling.
4. Optionally add a picture to associate the question.
5. Specify the answers to the question and how many may be selected.
6. Add other questions, and as many as necessary.
7. Attach additional documents, resources, and other files to the survey for the user to download and review.
8. Activate the survey, which makes it live and ready to receive feedback.

Most of those steps are optional, which means you can make your surveys complex or simple depending on your needs.

Once a survey is finished, you would “close” the survey so that it would receive no more results, and then conveniently select from a list of types of reports containing bar graphs and pie charts that display the results of your survey from various criteria perspectives.  For example, university student criteria would include faculty of study, year of study, region of residence, residence / commuter status, date of posting, and others.

Upgrades & Expansions

Since extollIT has a specialized customer base, it is easy to meet individual customer needs.  If you find that Polluxi is not meeting all of your needs and you would like more features, then consult extollIT by sending a personalized e-mail to Jonathan Neufeld with your request, and he will respond with an estimate of additional cost and time to develop the expansion / upgrade.

Developing upgrades and expansions for Polluxi is cost-effective.  Since Polluxi was designed to specifically facilitate feature expansions and upgrades.  The time to develop and therefore cost to develop these upgrades is significantly lower than you would expect.  Therefore, if you want to add features to your copy of Polluxi, then be prepared to request a large quantity of features and make it worth your while.  Furthermore, Polluxi will eventually evolve to include features that allow you to add your own features with simplicity and without technical knowledge.

Technical Support Guarantee

extollIT will provide you with on-site technical support at no charge for the first two months after purchase of Polluxi.  After that time technical support is available at an affordable rate.  This statement ensures that we will spend the time making sure that Polluxi is working properly.