AIMS user survey

Your name

Your Company name, if applicable

The current version of AIMS that you are using

If you are not using version 4.8 please download it now as this will be the only version that will be supported for upgrading to Visual AIMS.

Visual AIMS will be multi lingual.
We are intending to use the following languages, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian.

Are there any other languages that you would like to see AIMS run in?

The current version of AIMS uses auto generated egg numbers with year prefixes, e.g. 970001, 970002. for 1997
Which of the following would you prefer for egg numbering?

Maintain the current system of auto generated numbers, with year prefixes.

Allow the user to enter his/her own egg identification numbers.

Have an option for either auto generated numbers or user entered numbers.

The current version of AIMS does not allow ring numbers to be used twice in the system.

Would you like to see this restricted to species level
e.g. you could have a peregrine falcons and a Kestrel with the same ring number, but not two subspecies of Peregrine falcon.

Maintain current system.

Allow restriction only at subspecies level.

In order to keep cost down, which we pass onto our users in free upgrades, we are moving over to electronic distribution of upgrades and manuals

Our manual is now in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
This allows us to keep it right up to date via our web site in a format that everyone can download and read / print out.

Does the computer on which you use AIMS have a modem?  

Yes  No

If No would you be prepared to install a modem in that machine in order to receive the updates to AIMS?

Yes  No

We have made a large investment in the production of Visual AIMS, to date approximately eight thousand pounds sterling in software alone.
We are intending to allow current users to upgrade free of charge.

In order to keep costs down we are moving over to completely electronic distribution of AIMS.
This is suitable for upgrades between versions of Visual AIMS as the upgrade files would be small.

The initial files for the installation of AIMS will be LARGE and would take a long time to download, hours.

Would you be prepared to pay for the CD or would you prefer to download a LARGE file.

We are looking at a cost of about fifty pounds sterling to cover the cost of CD production an delivery via UPS, we are now based in Dubai and so prefer using UPS to post since it is easier to track order delivery etc..

Yes I would be prepared to pay approximatly 50 pounds sterling for a CD and UPS delivery.

I would prefer to download a LARGE file.

Visual AIMS will be able to register and submit error reports via email.

Do you have email facilities on the computer you have AIMS installed on?
Yes  No

If Yes, is it Microsoft Outlook ? Yes  No

Visual AIMS will be a much more powerful, and more user friendly program than AIMS.
As with all modern programs it does required a fast computer to run on in order to get maximum benefit from it.

About the computer you have AIMS installed on.

What type of processor do you have in the machine, e.g. Pentium III. 

How much memory does the machine have, e.g. 64 Mb 

What new features would you like to see in Visual AIMS?

Is there anything that is in the current version that you would like to see work differently in Visual AIMS, 
other than getting out of screens without having to enter data into some fields, as this has already been taken care of.

Any other comments you would like to make about the program or our support for it.

Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey.