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Welcome. 2013 User Group Meeting Matt Bartel, CEO & Founder. Overview. Our Story Introducing Digital Measures Inside Digital Measures A Few (Good!) Surprises The Road Ahead…. Our Story. 1999: Founded Digital Measures 2001: Created Activity Insight 2005: Hired first DMer
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Welcome 2013 User Group Meeting Matt Bartel, CEO & Founder
Overview • Our Story • Introducing Digital Measures • Inside Digital Measures • A Few (Good!) Surprises • The Road Ahead…
Our Story • 1999: Founded Digital Measures • 2001: Created Activity Insight • 2005: Hired first DMer • 2006: 100th Activity Insight client, including 1st international • 2007: Moved into first office • 2008: Users and Security utility released • 2011: Introduced Search and file storage • 2012: Significant enhancements to internal tools • 2013: BibTeX Imports and First Annual User Group Meeting
Introducing Digital Measures • Founded in 1999; based in Milwaukee, WI; completely employee-owned • Our sole focus: Activity Insight for higher education • Clear market leader…more than 60% of largest 500 campuses in US • 400,000+ faculty are in Activity Insight • Users in more than 25 countries • 2013 user group meeting: 150+ attendees from 100+ universities University of Dubai
Inside Digital Measures • Completely employee-owned • About 30 full-time employees…all but two are based in our Milwaukee office • Core values • Driven to Excel • Humbly Confident • Helps Clients and DMers Succeed • Persistent • Embodies Integrity • Our organizational structure • Executive Team with representation from across DM • Strategic plan-focused • Truly partner with our clients via our Solution Specialists • High software quality: Agile; automated testing; scripted release processes…
A Few (Good) Surprises! • BibTeX Imports • Imports from citation repositories • First imports from PubMed, then… • Search on Summary Screens • Append notes to Work Requests
The Road Ahead... Capture faculty activity information once; use it many times. • BibTeX and citation repository imports help alleviate capture • We can do more: Suggest citations and UI enhancements • On the “use it many times” front… • Workflow, Open Access Repository integration • More benefit for faculty • Custom CV builder • Searching for faculty on campus…or on other campuses Your input will be key…