BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- QSR International today announced that due to demand from the global research community its NVivo 10 software is now available in six new languages: French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. A separate Japanese version is also available.

Researchers, students and professors worldwide now have the choice to work with NVivo 10 in their preferred language to capture, manage and analyze unstructured data, like videos, interviews, images, surveys and social media.

More than 500,000 researchers around the world from industries like academia, nursing, evaluation and government currently use NVivo for qualitative research to ensure evidence based research findings. QSR International CEO John Owen commented, "We recognize that a lot of research being undertaken is in languages other than English and we want to ensure we're supporting these researchers too".

Additionally, all NVivo 10 users will now enjoy greater flexibility when working with social media data. NVivo 10 now includes new functionality enabling the import of YouTube content and the ability to visualize Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube data geographically. These new features add to the already powerful and intuitive technology that is the NCapture browser extension which gives users the capability to access and analyze every kind of online information.

"NVivo 10 is the first qualitative data analysis tool that enables people to easily capture, work with and analyze social media and online data and with the addition of these new languages, we are providing native language access to over 2.3 billion* extra people.

"With the increasing popularity of social media tools like Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn, it was important to us that NVivo 10 supports not only English-speakers but researchers, students and academics the world over," said Mr Owen.

*Source: KryssTal

About QSR International:

QSR International develops research management software that helps people glean insight from unstructured or qualitative data. Over half a million people around the world use QSR software - from professors and PhD students, to Deans, doctors, nurses, marketers, analysts and researchers, QSR's software is used in virtually every field. Their latest software, NVivo 10 helps people access, organize and analyze all their unstructured data, including documents, social media, images, audio, video, and spreadsheets. Visit www.nvivo10.com to learn more.

For more information, please contact:
Polly McDougall,
Account Director,
Sauce Communications,
+61 2 6953 7382,
polly@saucecommunications.com.au  

SOURCE QSR International