Pentor was the first research company in Poland to develop and bring in CADAS (Computer Aided Data Acquisition System), a system constructed on an Internet platform used for:

• the direct conducting of interviews and remote polling
• electronic data transfer and archiving
• supporting the checking of research work
• remote interviewer training
• on-line project participant communication

All organisational, methodological, inspection and IT elements needed for conducting computer assisted research projects (i.e. CAPI, CATI, CASI and CAWI) are available in the CADAS system. It is based on the latest technology and guarantees integration of the research process, creating completely new opportunities in regard to cooperation and management.

The CADAS system is a platform integrating the people involved in the research process. Thanks to the Internet, it is also a system of communications that enables all processes to be linked into a broader system of managing the research process.

CADAS offers concrete benefits:

• Total control over the fieldwork process
• The possibility of anticipating and reacting quickly to fieldwork problems
• The guarantee of adhering to the research schedule
• Access to a survey questionnaire actually in use, and the possibility of providing ones critical observations regarding the questionnaire and then observing the effect of changes made
• Correctness of the fieldwork process ensured by the virtual interviewer
• Security and new quality in interviewer work control
• Full communication between interviewer and fieldwork department thanks to the system being connected to mobile telephones
• Interviewer locating option
• Extended field of consumer knowledge thanks to the possibility of recording answers to open questions
• Interviewers can collect visual documentation via digital camera mobile phones
• Professionally trained interviewers

 CADAS means professional service and IT backup

• 5 coordinators for a one-step interviewer network
• 6 script-writers
• 4 controllers
• 3 service teams: system, fieldwork, and hardware providing system service 7 days a week, 24 hours a day
• 200 trained interviewers
• 250 latest generation laptops
• 250 mobile phones enabling data transmission from anywhere in Poland