In the late 1990s, we found ourselves challenged by the lack of tools and technologies available to meet our need to manage, share, and analyze an increasing amount of mixed method research being collected by members of geographically distributed teams. At that time, traditional qualitative-data-analysis software options were expensive, complicated to learn and use, and overloaded with unnecessary features.

There were no integrated platforms that even came close to meeting our needs, so we decided to build it ourselves. The only problem was that we were still a (really) small company with finite resources and financing.

But we didn’t let that stop us! We upped our game, we solved some financing challenges, found more of the right people and...just like that, Dedoose was born. A platform built by researchers for researchers.

Bruce is our beloved mascot with a long history of supporting researchers and graduate students. When he isn't roaming around conferences, you can find him at Dedoose headquarters with his hooves up.