The All-in-One Workbench Concept
ATLAS.ti - The Knowledge Workbench is a tightly integrated collection of individual tools that support your analysis of written texts, audio, video, and graphic data. Easy transition between the tools is important to fit the typical work flow of the qualitative researcher.
Some of the tools, such as the Object Managers, the Network Editor, the Object Explorer, the Code Forest and the Code Tree, help you to browse and navigate through your data structures and concepts.
Other tools, like the Hermeneutic Unit (HU) Editor, the Text Editors, and the Memo tool help with reading, annotating, and writing during your analytical process.
For searching, the Text Search Tool, the Auto Coding Tool (Auto Coder), the Object Crawler, and the Query Tool are at your disposal.
For bridging the qualitative-quantitative gap, the SPSS Export function and the WordCruncher might meet your needs
Support for teamwork and collaborative projects comes with the User Administration tool, the HU Merger, the Redundant Coding Analyzer, the HTML and XML generators.
Most of the tools typically belong to more than just one of these broad categories: for example, Object Managers are used for browsing as well as for editing codes and memos.