ATLAS.ti is a versatile workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio, and video data. It offers a variety of tools for accomplishing the tasks associated with any systematic approach to unstructured data, e.g., data that cannot be meaningfully analyzed by formal, statistical approaches.

In the course of qualitative analysis, ATLAS.ti helps you to explore the complex phenomena hidden in your textual and multimedia data. For coping with the inherent complexity of the tasks and data, ATLAS.ti offers a powerful, intuitive environment that keeps you focused on the materials to be analyzed.

It offers sophisticated tools to manage, extract, compare, explore, and reassemble meaningful segments of large amounts of data in flexible and creative, yet systematic ways.

Learn more about some of central concepts and features of ATLAS.ti:

PDs represent the text, graphical, audio, and/or video materials that you wish to analyze. The content of PDs is usually stored in data files on your computer.

PDs are usually created by assigning files to an HU. You can, however, also assign a memo as a PD. You can assign as many documents as needed for a given HU.

Media Types

ATLAS.ti can display and process four different media types: text, graphic, audio, and video data.

Text: Textual PDs can consist of plain or rich text (RTF = Rich Text Format). Objects like a PowerPoint™ presentation or an Excel™ table can be embedded and edited. With certain restrictions, Word™, WordPerfect™, MS Works™ or HTML documents can be directly used as PDs.

Images: More than twenty graphic file formats are directly supported by ATLAS.ti including Windows Bitmap (BMP), TIFF, JPG, and Kodak Photo CD.

Multimedia: ATLAS.ti supports a number of audio and video formats utilizing Windows’ Multimedia Control Interface (MCI). MCI needs to be correctly installed and configured in order to work with multimedia files.