Colectica 7.4 Is Now Available

Colectica today announced the availability of Colectica 7.4, the latest enhancement to the world's most popular data documentation software based on Open Standards metadata from the Data Documentation Initiative.

The new release of Colectica provides the most stable, accurate, standards compliant, and enterprise ready research data documentation software available. The support for DDI, ISO 11179, GSIM, and the GSBPM found in Colectica 7.4 are based on research community best practices from Colectica users in countries around the world.

Major new features and changes include:

• Support for Microsoft .NET 8
• Colectica Repository item registration performance improvements
• Colectica Designer search performance improvements
• Summary statistic calculation performance improvements
• SAS and SPSS reading performance improvements
• Additional new content from the DDI Codebook 2.5 and DDI Lifecycle 3.3 metadata standards
• Performant automatic sitemap generation for Colectica Portal
• Security updates for various Microsoft CVEs
• Hundreds of new features and improvements which are highlighted in the changelog

All users are recommended to upgrade to the latest release.

"With the release of Colectica 7.4, we continue to ensure the Colectica software is always up to date, secure from CVEs, and highly performant by consistently integrating the latest advancements, security patches, and exciting new features. Our commitment to commercial support means that users can focus on their core tasks, while we handle the complexities of maintenance, updates, and security." said Dan Smith, a partner at Colectica. "With Colectica 7.4, you can trust that your metadata management tools are not only powerful but also secure, reliable, and feature-rich."

Our commitment to commercial support means that users can focus on their core tasks

Dan Smith, Partner at Colectica

A new release of Colectica Reader, the free viewer for DDI data documentation, and Colectica for Excel are also available to the general public. The new Colectica 7.4 release is available now for both software evaluation and to current customers. If you would like to try Colectica free of charge please request a Colectica evaluation. Colectica consists of several software tools.

• Colectica Designer enables documenting of survey methodologies, survey instruments, questions, variables, and datasets.
• Colectica Questionnaires is a survey specification creator and code generator.
• Colectica Repository centrally tracks and manages changes to the documentation and allows multiple people and groups to work together. It contains Colectica Portal for publication of this documentation on the web.
• Colectica SDK allows programmers to quickly access the DDI information model.

All of these products use Open Standards to allow for interoperability with other tools. Colectica products, training on Open Standards, documentation, and customized software solutions are available through https://www.colectica.com .

About Colectica

Launched in 2010, Colectica® is the fastest way to design, document, and publish statistical research using Open Data standards. The Colectica Platform is an ideal solution for statistical agencies, survey research groups, public opinion research, data archivists, and other data centric collection operations that are looking to increase the expressiveness and longevity of the data collected through standards based metadata documentation. The company offers a range of highly specific products and services designed to give power to people through easy integration and access to data.

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