Magpie - Traverse

Magpie is a digital consultation platform that allows you to pull insights from data.

Magpie is designed for ease of use, so you can set up consultations and surveys, or input any data that you want to analyse. It enables transparent, sentence-level analysis of responses to open questions, so you can be confident you’ve understood all the issues raised. You can also generate visual representations of closed question responses. To help you understand feedback as quickly as possible, Magpie has a powerful, customisable reporting dashboard that puts results at your fingertips.

As a Magpie user, you will have secure access to the reporting module, giving you a window into the consultation as it happens. We will discuss your needs and provide the most helpful reports, including response rate, key stakeholder participation or emerging themes.

Magpie is the latest version of the system we have successfully developed and used since 1999, running consultations of every size for a diverse range of clients. We have taken all the lessons learned from dealing with hundreds of thousands of responses to give you a system that makes even the biggest and most controversial consultations easy to handle.

Magpie’s fully featured system covers every step of a consultation, demonstrating at all times our trademark rigour to ensure that every word is read and analysed. This robust approach will give you the information you need to make decisions that respond effectively to what your stakeholders have said.

Our team of engagement experts are on hand to help you get the most out of the system, and we offer scalable packages of analysis support when you need extra resource to deal with your data.

Magpie’s features:

Completely web-based - can be accessed from anywhere
Based on the latest and most secure technologies
User-focused interface that is intuitive and easy to use
Incorporates powerful tools for analysis and report writing
Quick consultation set-up process
Responses are tracked throughout, giving a complete audit trail

Security

All interactions with Magpie are transferred via HTTPS, so communications are encrypted at both ends, and cannot be read by other parties.

Magpie is hosted on Microsoft Azure, cloud hosting means that all data is easily recoverable. These virtual servers use the Azure SQL Server to ensure that storage is secure and easily scalable.

Magpie also uses the Microsoft Azure Business to Consumer service (B2C) to manage user authentications. This standardises the storage and authentication processes on a scalable, secure platform. It also uses security 'tokens' for authentication, so you know that your information is protected.

Magpie has modules for each step of the consultation journey, from importing responses, to reporting on them. We can advise on all steps of this journey.