A remarkably flexible and transparent tool, Dedoose is appropriate for use in a wide variety of circumstances ranging from academic, market, and healthcare research to the teaching of qualitative or mixed methods research to serving as a searchable reference database for individuals or groups of writers or researchers.

In fact, Dedoose has been used for all of these purposes: academic researchers collecting, drilling into, and analyzing data collected in long-running projects; market researchers who need to quickly visualize and present research findings; instructors who work with groups of students and need to monitor the work of each individual; and groups working together as they collaboratively collect resources to be accessed over time.