Dedoose is a web application for mixed methods research developed by academics from UCLA, with support from the William T. Grant Foundation, and is the successor to EthnoNotes.
[1] Dedoose is an alternative to other qualitative data analysis software, explicitly aimed at facilitating rigorous mixed methods research.
[9] On May 6, 2014, Dedoose suffered a major system failure, resulting in the corruption and loss of significant amounts of data and service availability problems.
According to SCRC, the system crash involved a failure of its Microsoft Azure cloud services during a database backup.
"[10] Carl Straumsheim noted that "the Dedoose crash should serve as a warning to colleges and universities as they consider moving sensitive information to the cloud".