QDA programmes already on the market, such as MaxQDA, Atlas ti or NVivo, are more or less explicitly oriented towards the method of qualitative content analysis, even if they emphasise their "methodological openness": The empirical material is provided with keywords ("coded") according to a "coding scheme" in order to then compare, e.g. in an interview study, text passages from different interviews that have been coded in the same way (for example, all passages that have been coded with the code "violence in the family"). This is not valid from the point of view of the methodology of the documentary method, as it involves a decontextualisation of the material, because in an interview, most text passages are preceded by other sequences that only contribute to an adequate understanding of this one passage.

In DokuMet QDA, on the other hand, the software is programmed in such a way that the material can be reconstructed in its sequential structure and the following questions can be answered: How, i.e. in what context, does someone come to talk about "violence in the family"? How does a corresponding context of meaning build up during the narrative process, which has little in common with the fragments of meaning generated with conventional QDA programmes? DokuMet QDA enables the reconstruction of such contexts of meaning against the background of a systematic comparative horizon formation with contexts of meaning of other cases. In this way, DokuMet QDA leads the user via methodically controlled condensation steps to typifiable results that are on the one hand anchored in cases and on the other hand point far beyond them in the sense of an analytical abstraction.