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Cassandre is a Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software program. It's purpose is to assist qualitative analysis research in humanities and social sciences. Cassandre helps to combine one (or several) texts corpus(es) and one (of several) analytical framework(s). The software is designed to support collaborative work and it can be run on a server. It was created at the University of Technology of Troyes.

Cassandre helps the researchers to build analytical frameworks consistent with their hypotheses. The researchers chooses keywords or idioms from her or his research material as accurate candidate surrogates for investigated phenomena. The software finds all excerpts that belong these keywords/idioms, so that all exerpts related to a phenomenon can be compared. Comparisons help to refine the hypotheses or raise new questions.