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NVivo unlocks the insights in your data

NVivo helps you discover more from your qualitative and mixed methods data. Uncover richer insights and produce clearly articulated, defensible findings backed by rigorous evidence.

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NVivo is a place to organize, store and analyze your data.

Work more efficiently, conduct deeper analysis from more sources, and defend your findings with NVivo.

  • Import data from virtually any source.
  • Analyze data with advanced management, query, and visualization tools.
  • Ask complex questions about your data to identify themes and draw a clear conclusion.
  • Achieve more robust research results in less time.

About

DISCOVER THE WAYS NVIVO WORKS FOR YOU

NVivo features best-in-class capability options for all researchers so that you can ask for more of your data.

Powerful research. Simplified.

NVivo is the most widely used qualitative data analysis tool, and now it’s even better. Not only a tool for organizing and managing data, but NVivo also offers an intuitive experience that helps you uncover deeper research insights while facilitating quick and seamless collaboration among teams.

Unlock insights with easy-to-use, collaborative qualitative data analysis software 

NVivo helps you discover more from your qualitative and mixed methods data. Uncover richer insights, collaborate seamlessly with teams, and produce clearly articulated, defensible findings backed by rigorous evidence.

BOOST PRODUCTIVITY

Find common themes and evidence-based insights faster, so you can do more in less time.

UNCOVER DEEPER INSIGHTS

Ask critical questions about your data and find patterns and connections that aren’t possible manually.

MAKE ROBUST CONCLUSIONS

Have the full picture when articulating outcomes or evaluating impact.

DELIVER COMPREHENSIVE FINDINGS

Reach and present valid, defensible conclusions to create effective outcomes.

Enhance the power of NVivo

The possibilities for your research are limitless. Discover them sooner with our modules to work smarter with your data.

News

What’s new in NVivo 14

Easily Connect from Mac or Windows

Syncing projects across Mac and Windows does more than eliminating the file conversion process — with NVivo 14, users can easily open projects across both Mac and Windows with ease.

Citavi Insight – Powered by NVivo

If you use Citavi for your writing, reference management, and literature reviews you are now able to bring Citavi and NVivo data together seamlessly. Citavi helps you go beyond simple reference management and creates a springboard to analyze your literature, connect it to your empirical data, analyze with NVivo’s research tools, and aid you in publishing faster.  

Simplified Access & Management Single Sign-on (SSO)

Whether you use NVivo, Citavi or both, Single Sign-On offers a secure, centralized, and easy-to-use access management capability. Your account provides you with access to your resources, tools, data, and applications.

Enhanced Teams & Enterprise Collaboration

Whether you are on a Mac or Windows, NVivo 14 drastically improves how you can easily sync work completed while offline to sharing projects with teams. By enhancing the team experience with NVivo Collaboration Cloud, multiple users can connect to the same project to update, code, and analyze your research in real-time. This feature requires NVivo’s Collaboration Cloud


NVivo R1 info below (release 2020)

The Most Intuitive QDA Experience

Discover the most intuitive NVivo yet:

  • The navigation panel groups key tasks under ‘import’, ‘analyze’ and ‘explore’ to help guide you through your research process.
  • The ribbon is designed to easily and quickly find the features you need.
  • Create the thinking space you need by undocking the workspace to enlarge the screen you’re working on.
  • Explore your data using high-quality charts and mapping tools, ideal for exporting and using in presentations.
  • Phrasing and terminology in the software align with contemporary research terms and trends.

Code Faster Than Ever

You told us coding is one of the most powerful features of NVivo, and now we’ve made it even more effective and efficient for you.

  • The most efficient coding
    When working with text documents, you can easily see all your codes and conveniently drag and drop text to them in one view.
  • Superior readability with flexible coding stripes
    View them horizontally, so they’re easier to read.
  • Track coding easily
    Simply click on a coding stripe to view what you have coded. The colour of the text highlighted matches the colour of the coding stripe for easy reading when viewing coding stripes.

Import Common Data In A Few Clicks

Use Word or Excel to collect data, then in a few clicks, seamlessly send data to NVivo and immediately start your analysis. 

The NVivo-Integration allows you to add tags to note key points or themes within each document, along with a description, to organize and prepare your files for easy searching within NVivo. This time-saving functionality allows you to easily collect data on your preferred device and import it in a few clicks so you can immediately start your analysis.

Using the new NVivo on Microsoft Windows, you can also take advantage of instant imports from Microsoft Outlook to easily analyze data within emails.

Collaboration Made Easy

NVivo Collaboration Cloud enables team members to share projects, no matter where in the world they may be working.

  • Simple user management
    Easily manage user permissions based on the roles of each team member.
  • Collaborate through a familiar download/upload process
    Download a project to begin work and make changes. Upon saving, upload into the Collaboration Workspace for the Workspace Manager to merge your contributions to the master project.
  • Work offline as required
    Download your project to your computer or laptop, allowing you to work offline or back up your data. Your master project is saved in the cloud, so you can access it from anywhere.

Work Smarter With NVivo

Enhance your research by adding features, modules and learning journeys as and when you need them.

To further your analysis, NVivo supports mobility and collaboration through cloud-based subscriptions and modules, offering flexibility and options to fit your needs. 

Take a learning journey to enhance your NVivo knowledge – whether it’s for individuals, teams, or organizations. From free online resources, onsite workshops and virtual coaching, you can learn more by contacting the team at: info@alfasoft.com

Details

A place to organize, store, analyze and collaborate on your data

Work more efficiently, conduct deeper analysis from more sources, and defend your findings with NVivo.

  • Import data from virtually any source
  • Analyze data with advanced management, query, and visualization tools
  • Ask complex questions about your data to identify themes and draw clear conclusions
  • Achieve more robust research results in less time
  • Collaborate in real-time with fellow researchers.*
  • Leverage instant access to data from Citavi (an all-in-one writing and referencing solution).*

    *Requires additional purchase.

Import

Import text, audio, video, emails, images, spreadsheets, online surveys, web content and social media from various sources into a simple, intuitive interface. Centralize data from multiple sources to conduct the most in-depth analysis possible. And with NVivo Collaboration Cloud, see contributions from team members in real-time.

Organise

Code your data to identify themes and trends. Organize the people, places, and core metrics of your analysis as cases. Link cases to attribute values such as age and gender to compare different groups in your data.

Take your data organization to the next level by adding on Citavi (our all-in-one writing and referencing solution) and NVivo Collaboration Cloud, where team members can code simultaneously, with all contributions appearing in real-time regardless of operating on a Mac or Windows operating system.

Explore

Ask complex questions to discover meaning in your data. Quickly visualize your data with word frequency charts, word clouds, comparison diagrams and many more. Look for emerging topics and sentiment using specific queries to identify themes and draw conclusions. NVivo 14 adds powerful new insight-generating tools to help researchers accelerate insight and achieve the strongest analysis of the data.

Connect

It’s easy to import notes and data directly from Microsoft Office, such as Excel and Word, with the NVivo – Integration add-in. Licenses for the latest release of NVivo all come with access to the NVivo – Integration add-in for 12 months at no additional cost.

NVivo integrates easily with the programs you use every day. Leverage free integrations for apps like SurveyMonkey, EndNote, and more to centralize your research. Meeting the REFI-QDA Standard, NVivo enables interoperability, allowing you to import research from other QDA or CAQDAS programs.

The latest version also offers instant access and integration to Citavi users and their data. And with NVivo 14, researchers can now easily work across both Mac and Windows operating systems.

Get to work faster and boost your results

When you open NVivo, get up to speed with a short, guided tour. Get started quickly and follow cues that support you to ‘import’, ‘organize’ and ‘explore’ your data easily.

Modules

Enhance the power of NVivo

Unlock further possibilities and work smarter with our additional solutions.

NVivo Collaboration Cloud

Collaboration

Share data, expertise, and insights across teams with NVivo’s collaboration solution.

NVivo Transcription automation

Transcription

Powerful automated transcriptions give you the freedom to focus on your analysis.

Citavi

The only all-in-one reference management and note-taking tool for researchers.

Licenses

There’s an NVivo to suit you

Whether you’re a student, an individual or an organization, there’s an NVivo to suit your needs. Our student license provides access to NVivo for 12 months, while our individual licenses provide access for a lifetime.

It’s easy to buy student, individual and small group licenses (student licenses limited to one per account, individual and small group licenses up to nine) in our webshop.

NVivo for Enterprise

Volume pricing for teams and organizations needing ten (10) or more licenses.

Enterprise licenses allow you to install NVivo on multiple computers up to the maximum number of licenses that your site has purchased. Active enterprise licenses entitle you (and all license holders) to free upgrades when new software is released – so you and your teams are always up to date with the latest features and functionality.
If you’re looking to purchase ten or more NVivo licenses for your team or organization, contact our sales team via info@alfasoft.com

If you’re an NVivo 12 customer or bought NVivo after March 2020, you can upgrade an existing individual license to NVivo 14 at a reduced price (only one upgrade per license).

Learn more about the benefits of upgrading and discover the most powerful NVivo yet for team collaboration, accelerated insight, simplification, ease of use and faster results.

System Requirements

Windows system requirements

Minimum system requirements

  • 2.0 GHz dual-core processor (64-bit)
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 1680 x 1050 screen resolution
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1
  • Approximately 5 GB of available hard-disk space – or more depending on data storage needs

Recommended system requirements

  • 3.0 GHz quad-core processor or faster
  • 8 GB RAM or more
  • 1920 x 1080 screen resolution or higher
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1 or later
  • Approximately 8 GB of available hard-disk space – or more depending on data storage needs
  • Internet connection
  • Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome 44 or later

If you want to install and use NVivo’s supplementary add-on, NCapture, you will also require either Internet Explorer 11, or Google Chrome 44 or later.  NOTE Windows Media Player is required to play audio and video files in NVivo.

Mac system requirements

Minimum system requirements

  • Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
  • Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra)
  • 4GB of RAM
  • 1280 x 800 screen resolution
  • 8GB SSD of available disk space—or more, depending on data storage needs

Recommended system requirements

  • Mac computer with an Intel Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
  • Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra) or later
  • 8GB of RAM or more
  • 1440 x 900 screen resolution
  • 8GB SSD of available disk space—or more, depending on data storage needs
  • Internet connection
  • Google Chrome (required for NCapture—a browser extension that allows you to gather material from the web)

Support

Support

We offer technical support for all our NVivo customers.

As a first step, you should visit our Help Centre.

Here you can find solutions for common issues and many other useful resources.

If you cannot find the answer, please submit a ticket.

Please state your support case as detailed as possible when you contact our support. Always remember to inform what product version you are using and what operating system (both platform and version).