CRIS design & implementation: best practice in an academic use case

Abstract

The implementation of a Research Information Management System (aka CRIS/RIMS) at any University is challenging from the administrative, organisational, technical points of view, not to mention the economics. There are several solutions on the market that claim to address all the University needs with different points of strength and weakness that are hard to understand without a deep dive into the solution. Costs of some of these solutions can be hidden and unfortunately commercial strategies can be used to lock the adopting university in a path that only at its end will show the real costs.