UNC Cause 2003 Vendor Evaluation

Thank you to our vendors who supported and participated in our annual UNC CAUSE conference held in Wilmington. To help us continue to improve our conference, both for the attendees and the vendors, please take a few minutes to answer the following questions concerning this year’s conference. These responses will be shared with the Western Region as they plan next year’s conference.

1. Overall, how would you rate the UNC CAUSE conference this year?

--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor

2. How would you rate the hotel conference facilities?

--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor

Comments?


3. How would you rate the evening activities provided at the conference?

Wed. evening activity: Game Night (sponsored by Cisco & Dimension Data)	Wed. evening food
--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor Did not attend	--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor Did not attend




Thur. evening entertainment: Henrietta III Dinner Cruise (Sponsored by Sun Microsystems)	Thur. evening food
--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor Did not attend	--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor Did not attend



4. How would you rate the vendor registration process?

--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor

Comments?

In this next section, we ask for more detailed information concerning the vendor exhibit area and vendor briefings.

5. Overall, what was your impression of the Vendor Exhibit area?

--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor

6. Do you have any comments you would like to share with us regarding the Vendor Exhibit area?
   
   
   
   
7. What particular aspects of the vendor exhibit area did you like? (Check all that apply)

Room layout (including "traffic" flow)
Networking capabilities of exhibit area
Break service held in vendor area

Other  

8. Do you think pipe and drape are necessary in the vendor areas?

   --Select One-- Yes No
   

9. Were there any particular aspects of the exhibit area that you did not like (please list below)?
   
   
   
   
10. How did you find the "traffic" at your exhibit this year?

    --Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor

11. Do you have any suggestions on improving traffic flow in the vendor exhibit area?
    
    
    
    
12. Do you believe that enough time was scheduled for participants to visit the vendor exhibit area? The times of the vendor area were: Wednesday 12 Nov. noon – 5:00 and Thursday all day with specific breaks scheduled from 9:30 – 10:15 and from 3:00– 3:45.

Yes, enough time was scheduled for participants to visit with the vendors
Somewhat: time was scheduled but breaks should have been longer to allow more time for participants to visit with vendors
No, more time should have been scheduled for participants

Other

13. Did you give a vendor briefing on Wednesday afternoon?

--Select One-- No Yes- Alphanumeric Yes - Bellsouth Yes - Cisco Yes - Dimension Data Yes - IBM Yes- Information Builder Yes - Oracle Yes - SAS Yes - Sun Yes - Veritas (select your briefing if you are answering yes)

If you answered Yes ->

12. a) How would you rate the attendance at your briefing?


--Select One-- Excellent Good Average Fair Poor (select your briefing if you are answering yes)

14. Please share your ideas for future conferences and vendor briefings. Select all that apply and please add more to the comment box.

Suggestion: Have a vendor briefing track during the main conference day (ie, would have been Thursday for this year's conference)
Suggestion: Close the vendor exhibit area during vendor briefings
Suggestion : Offer door prizes for only those participants that attend a briefing

Suggestion: Other:

Comments?

15. Would you be interested in participating in some joint vendor/university personnel presentations? The idea here would be that the thrust of the talk would still be geared towards how the university is using the product/service, much like a case study. However, vendors would be given 10-15 minutes to provide more of a general overview of the products and/or services that are the focus of the case study.

--Select One-- Yes No

Comments?

16. Will you consider returning to UNC CAUSE next year?

--Select One-- Yes Maybe No

If you answered "maybe" or "no", would you tell us why?



17. Are there any comments, suggestions or thoughts that you would like to share with the planning committee (present and future) that you believe will make UNC CAUSE a better conference?
    
    
    

The next few questions deal specifically with vendors that sponsored an event or activity at UNC CAUSE this year. If you did not sponsor an event or activity, please submit the evaluation now, you need not go any further. THANK YOU for taking the time to answer these questions and we hope to see you next year.

18. If you sponsored an event at UNC CAUSE this year, were you pleased with the event and the quality of it?

--Select One-- Yes, very pleased Somewhat pleased No, not pleased at all

If you answered "somewhat" or "no", please tell us what could have been better about the event and/or activity.




19. Do you believe that your company got adequate recognition for the event/activity that they sponsored?

--Select One-- Yes Somewhat No

Comments/suggestions:

20. Do you believe the prices we set for vendor sponsorships were fair?

--Select One-- Yes Somewhat No

Comments?

21. Are there any additional questions or suggestions that you would like to share with the committee?
    
    

THANK YOU for taking the time to answer this survey!

Please send comments and corrections to causehelp@lists.ncsu.edu