Politecnico di Torino Research Information System overview on project path and goals

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1 Politecnico di Torino Information System overview on project path and goals eurocris Meeting May 2011 Simone Martinetto Head of Application Management Division Information Technology Area Politecnico di Torino

2 Agenda Politecnico di Torino requirements and goals Information System Main features Data architecture guidelines As IS - Application map Program path and goals To Be - Application map Ongoing projects and roadmap Conclusions 2

3 Politecnico di Torino requirements and goals Main requirement and goals: Ability to understand and represent the activities of the University Strengthen the capabilities of raising research funding Push on the dissemination of scientific production, for the benefit of technology transfer and to ensure that the research we fund and support in various ways has the greatest possible research impact Strengthen the process of research assessment through the support of updated and reliable information Meets the Open Access movement principles, the European Community guidelines for the free dissemination of knowledge and FP7 open access guidelines 3

4 Information System Main features RIS should have features such as: Ability to map all research entities: project, publications, skills of research team, research laboratories and instruments uniqueness and ease of classification for all the entities (common classification tree and keywords set, areas and research themes) CRM capabilities to manage relationships with companies and public agencies for funding and opportunity pipeline Web capabilities integrated with content system (CMS) and with the university web portal Improved integration between systems and BPM system for research process. Compliance with Open Access standard OAI-PMH and other international interoperability standards 4

5 Data architecture guidelines Data point of view Each information must be kept and managed on his master system must be entered on the system once (no double data entry) must be connected to others and referenced even across different systems Human Resource System er career er data Information System Class tree, Keywords set Publication data Publication Full-text Team data ERP System Projects Cost prospect Contract data Project Management System Projects data Timesheet data 5

6 As IS application map Politecnico Intranet Management Application Portal (SWA) and Cineca UGOV- are the main application platforms. Many processes and information are supported by these systems, while others are still on individual spreadsheets or local database Promotion, dissemination, technology transfer University Portal Open Access Portal assessment assessment system Attract partners, opportunities Opportunities and prospect Contacts and schedule Contracts and projects Project Management Contracts Database Project Timesheet contracts, agreements resources and publications team and activities Publications Catalog er web pages 6

7 Program path and goals Promotion, dissemination, technology transfer University Portal Integration with Ugov- Information Catalog data Extended research portal features with improved navigation and search capabilities based on keywords and classification tree Web 2.0 extensions Attract partners, opportunities Contracts and projects CRM and datamart datamart will import information from the ERP system, HR system, Project Management System, Information System to build complex data views The research datamart will provide reports for support CRM analisys (companies contacts organized by research areas, by revenue ) Workflow system Add a workflow system to support processes on contracts and project Improve and extend capabilities for contracts database resources and publications Information Catalog Deploy UGOV-Anagrafe della ricerca to manage research entities and classification tree (research team, activities, assets, skills ) 7

8 To Be - Application map Program development will complete the application map with better integration between systems and no more local spreadsheets or databases. Promotion, dissemination, technology transfer University Portal Open Access Portal Assessment assessment system Attract partners, opportunities Datamart CRM Contracts and projects Project Workflow system Contracts database Timesheet resources and publications Information catalog Publications Catalog er web pages 8

9 Ongoing projects and roadmap UGOV - Information catalog Configuring beta version on preproduction system Populating with sample data Contracts databases and workflow system Functional analysis and requirements gathering for contracts database Evaluating workflow system and systems integration activities portal Last week we released the first version of Institutional Repository (Open Access Portal) Datamart and CRM system beginning

10 Ongoing projects and roadmap We are at half of our way and there is still a lot of work to do Timeshee t tuning Project Catalog Project - tuning Progetti - tuning Upgrade release & layout Open Access Portal Follow-up information catalog Contracts database Portal extension Datamart TBD Workflow system TBD CRM 10

11 Conclusions Connecting systems (ERP, HR, workflow ) to the research system has many advantages: enables deepest data analysis and CRM capabilities to increase funding opportunities helps keeping information up to date and reliable No double data entry researchers should have just one place to input data for all different purposes (assessment, dissemination, knowledge repository). Publishing information is also the key for keeping data alive and updated. With this approach we have improved dramatically the quality and update frequency of data on our publications repository. 11

12 Thank you! Contacts 12

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