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SUMI Products and Services
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SUMI Products and Services

We are changing the way we deliver SUMI services. At present, the following services are available:

Professional consultancy service

This is a service housed at University College Cork, the url of which is sumi.ucc.ie/en/ (for the English language version - other language versions are coming onstream with demand.) You can see the questionnaire on this link but you'll need a password to be able to send data.

This service provides a detailed report giving the SUMI output including content analysis of the ancilliary questions.

Apply to HFRG for a password, specify the start and end dates, and agree on a contractual date for the delivery of the final report. The cost of this service is €2,500 per report.

Basic online service

As above, this service is housed at University College Cork, the url of which is sumi.ucc.ie/en/ (for the English language version - other language versions are coming onstream with demand.) You can see this questionnaire on this link but you'll need a password to be able to send data.

This service is intended for studies of between 12 to 100 users.

Apply to the HFRG for a password, and specify a start and end date. After the end date, you will get the scored SUMI data and associated replies to the ancilliary questions but you'll have to do your own statistical and content analyses. The cost of this service is €1,200 per report.

Offline SUMI service

This service is primarily intended for labs who want to host SUMI internally (eg on a intranet), or academic users who cannot purchase either of the the online services (for student work towards a major thesis, for example.)

Please use the version at sumi.ucc.ie/en as the base version for your implementation. You'll have to change the way the web page communicates with your server, of course, at least. You may add in your corporate identity but you may not hide the HFRG copyright statement. You must also be careful that you do not change the wording of any questions, and that you don't alter their order, add to, or reduce the questions. SUMI is a psychometric instrument which works well if treated with respect.
If you do not want to or can't host an electronic version of SUMI, you can purchase a pdf file to print out and copy. You make as many copies of the questionnaire as you need, but again, you should not change the wordings or add or subtract questions.
You may, if you wish, add extra questions in either before the start of the block of 50 SUMI questions, or after them. A few open-ended questions are always very useful.

When you have gathered your data, you send a file of data to HFRG who will then produce a standard SUMI output and send it back to you by e-mail.

The required formats for sending data to HFRG are given on the formats page. If data is not provided in this format, it can't be analysed.

Dates for submitting and sending data back must be agreed upon beforehand. The usual turn-around time can be very short (half a working day) if you have arranged this with HFRG. The cost of this service is €500.

If you are a student and want to apply for a free use of SUMI you will have to get your academic supervisor to write a letter on headed stationery stating that the work you are carrying out is academic and not for profit or part of a consultancy arrangement.

Customised service

For a large scale survey, or a survey with additional questions, or for becoming a SUMI service provider in your own right, you will have to contact Dr Jurek Kirakowski at jzk@ucc.ie to discuss your needs.

We are academics with more than 15 years experience of providing state of the art services to industry, research projects, and to fellow academic colleagues. Please remember we're not a commercial web-trends survey company.

SUMI is a robust psychometric instrument used by a large variety of IT companies and it works extremely well so long as it is treated with respect, that is, whole and 'as is.'

PLEASE NOTE:

All prices are in Euros.

We regret we can't accept payment though credit cards such as Visa.

Languages available

Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portugese
Swedish
Spanish

Each has been carefully translated and validated in the target language by native speakers of the language.

Ordering procedure

Download and fill out the Order Form or cut and paste the Order Form given below.

Please remember to give your VAT number if applicable.
Additional pages required:
- If you are buying a service, please also include a purchase order from your institute or company, on official headed paper, stating the reference number from your institute or company for your order.
- If this is a student application, include the letter from your supervisor.
Your order must include one or other of the two above additional pages.
Fax the documentation to 00 353 21 427 0439 marked "SUMI Services - HFRG" or scan as pdf and send to jzk@ucc.ie with the subject line "SUMI Services."
We won't supply a SUMI service until the above details are correctly submitted and verified by us.
You will be invoiced when the service is supplied. Our terms are net 30 days.
We regret we can't accept credit cards or PayPal. Euro cheques must be drawn on an Irish bank. Cheques and Bank Drafts are acceptable in US$. Please see Finance.yahoo.com/m3 for an up-to-the minute currency converter.

Order forms

Please download, fill out and print one of the following versions of the order form:

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