

NVivo is intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or unstructured data.


In October 2022, QSR merged with Palisade and Addinsoft, and together they formed the new software platform Lumivero. In 1999, the Richards developed the first version of NVivo and eventually N6 was replaced by NVivo 7. Originally called NUD*IST, it contained tools for fine and detailed analysis of unstructured textual data. The first QSR International software product was developed by Tom and Lyn Richards. NVivo is used predominantly by academic, government, health and commercial researchers across a diverse range of fields, including social sciences such as anthropology, psychology, communication, sociology, as well as fields such as forensics, tourism, criminology and marketing. NVivo helps qualitative researchers to organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured or qualitative data like interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media and web content, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required. NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package produced by Lumivero (formerly by QSR International).
