Summary
QDA software offers time saving features to both experienced and novice qualitative researchers and mixed method researchers.
Contemporary QDA software is relatively easy to learn and use.
QDA software can help enhance the completeness, credibility and trustworthiness of a qualitative analysis thus potentially enhancing rigor;
QDA software can aid in reviewing the decisions made in a qualitative data (audit trail) thus potentially improving the rigor of qualitative research;
Some QDA software can aid in graphically portraying networks of relationships among qualitative data;
QDA software can be used to strengthen teaching of qualitative research.