Integration, Service Orientation and Convergence – Advancing Research Information Management at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Abstract

The analysts in their outlooks for 2012 identify as trends Social Media, Unified Communication & Collaboration (UCC), Next Generation Business Intelligence and Mobile IT. The paper by considering the impact of these innovations on Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) evolves a picture of the ‘Next-Generation CRIS’. The future CRIS as a multifunctional platform will not only be deeply embedded in integrated and service-oriented architectures, but also comprise strong Social Media and UCC components, be graded up to a severe Business Intelligence tool and be accessible on all kinds of mobile devices anywhere and anytime. By these extensions of its range of functionalities the whole scientific and science management lifecycle will be supported. In the final chapter it is shown, to which extent the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in a strategic partnership with the AVEDAS AG is about to realize a Next-Generation CRIS within the running implementation project KIT-CRIS.