ATLAS.ti the most powerful and sophisticated qualitative analysis tool available on the market today. ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. Sophisticated tools help you to arrange, reassemble, and manage your material in creative, yet systematic ways. ATLAS.ti keeps you focused on the material itself. Whether your field is anthropology, economics, criminology, or medicine: ATLAS.ti will meet your qualitative analysis needs! ATLAS.ti offers an unsurpassed range of media for you to work with: Whether it’s coding hundreds of audio clips or thousands of photos, ATLAS.ti will never let you down! Rich text documents may contain arbitrary formatting, live web links, and even embedded objects such as Excel™ tables, PowerPoint™ slides, audio and video clips. Enjoy the freedom of working with dozens of graphic and audio formats (WAV, MP3, WMA, etc.) as well as most common video types (AVI, MPG, WMV, etc.). Play multimedia files in sync with their transcriptions. And you can even do your transcription work right inside ATLAS.ti. Videos of any length, Google Earth geo-data, and even native PDF: ATLAS.ti lets you work with more data formats than any other QDA software.

• Interactive and automatic coding of rich text, image, audio and video materials
• “Rich” Text support with embedded active objects (Excel™, images, etc)
• Use Word™ documents via “on-the-fly” RTF conversion.
• Use PDF document without conversion--text, graphics, layout and all
• Google Earth™ Geodata Integration - Treat the world as your ultimate primary document.
• Text-to-media Synchronization
• On-Board Transcription Engine
• “Live” editable documents with dynamic multi-project update.
• Fully interactive margin area with drag & drop linking, coding, merging
• Intuitive: easy on-screen coding (drag & drop)
• All units annotatable: data segments, codes, memos, etc.
• Virtually unlimited number of documents, segments, codes and memos
• The ObjectExplorer: a hierarchical view of your data.
• Analyze proximity of coded data with the Cooccurrency Explorer.
• Visual model building and "mind mapping" with the Network Editor tool.
• Theory building & reuse: create & transfer knowledge networks between projects
• Network Editor now features auto-color node visualization
• Automatic, user-controllable network layout including a toplogical sort feature for project management tasks.
• Super codes capture hypothesis
• Hypertext: create and navigate hyperlinks to analyze threads of conversation.
• Powerful search & retrieve functions with Boolean, semantic, and proximity-based operators.
• The Object Crawler searches for textual patterns in the project
• Semi-automatic coding with multi-string text search and pattern matching ("GREP")
• Export project data to SPSS™, HTML, XML, CSV
• Quantitative data options: SPSS™, word frequency, and coding table export to Excel™
• East Asian and Middle Eastern language support
• Smart Super Families for powerful filters.
• Create impressive presentations using the XML/XSLT converter. Many useful stylesheets already included!
• Single compressed file project backup and migration.
• Table based bulk assignment of primary documents plus attributes (“families”)
• QUESSY.ti: include actual database content (Oracle™, MySQL, etc.) in your analysis (standard and multi user license only)
• Join the active ATLAS.ti Forum!
• Extensive support for teamwork (project merge, packaging and migration, entity authorship, shared documents)
• 400+ page User's Manual in Adobe™ Acrobat PDF format provided on CD. Reader included.

Common areas of application include:

anthropology	criminology	economics
educational sciences	ethnological studies	history
knowledge acquisition	legal studies	linguistics
literary studies	management studies	psychology
sociology	stylistics	software engineering
theology	political sciences	....

...and many other document-based research areas.

ATLAS.ti can be of great help in any field where this kind of "soft data" analysis is carried out. While the program was originally designed with the social scientist in mind, it has been put to use in areas that we had not initially anticipated. These areas include psychology, literature, medicine, software engineering, quality control, criminology, administration, text linguistics, stylistics, knowledge management, history, geography, theology, and law.

Especially because of ATLAS.ti's strength in working with graphical, audio, and video data, there is virtually no limit on the types of fields where it can be used productively. New applications emerge constantly. Listed below are a few "uncommon," but nonetheless typical usage scenarios for ATLAS.ti:

• Medicine: X-ray images, computer tomograms, microscoped samples.
• Anthropology: video taped gestures, mimics
• Architecture: annotated floorplans
• History: research video archives
• Engineering: "exploded" part lists with descriptions
• Psychotherapy: graphical add-ons (Rohrschach patterns?) to reports
• Graphology: micro comments to handwriting features.
• Criminology: letters, finger prints, photographs, incident based profiling
• Quality assurance: video taped feasibility studies of user interfaces
• Arts: detailed interpretative descriptions of paintings.
• Publishing: archiving images
• add your own field of research, study, or professional activity