Atira A/S : : Breaking down silos with quality data relations - how Pure enables uniform management reporting on top of CERIF

Management reporting at universities has traditionally been a labour intensive exercise, trying to capture and link unstructured and often duplicate data across a wide range of systems including Finance, Costing, Research repositories, Students and HR. Here we present how Pure enables uniform reporting by linking and refining input from individual researchers or administrative staff with information already present within existing administrative systems in the CERIF data model. We will include best practices based on real-life examples. ___ Thomas Vestdam, PhD., M.Sc.SE Development Manager, Atira A/S Thomas Vestdam is the Manager of the Pure Platform and Pure GUI development teams in Atira, and as such manages the development of the Pure product. Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Aalborg University (2004) and has extensive experience in developing and implementing CRIS systems. Additionally, Thomas has been involved in several projects on interoperability between research systems including FRIS (BE), CRISPool funded by JISC in the UK, and CERIF in Action, also funded by JISC in the UK. Thomas is also a member of the CERIF task group under euroCRIS. Bo Alroe, B.A. Product Director, Atira A/S Bo Alroe had a B.A. in Informatics from Aalborg University in 1991 before taking up a career in the IT industry, focusing through several positions on work within customer-specific enterprise server-side IT-solutions. Today, his area of expertise is IT-support of large research organisations' business processes related to research administration, strategic research management, individual research portfolio management, research financing, and research library science. Bo is Product Director at Atira A/S since 2004, working with Pure and the planning of Pure implementations at universities and other research organisations. ___ Further information: http://www.atira.dk/en/pure/ Contact: [email protected], [email protected]