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Enhancing Carolina’s eRA Infrastructure. April 13, 2007 School of Information & Library Science. Enhancing Carolina’s eRA. UNC: Goal to become leading US public research university Must improve/enhance infrastructure Facilities/Space Tools Marketing/Business Intelligence.
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Enhancing Carolina’s eRA Infrastructure April 13, 2007School of Information & Library Science
Enhancing Carolina’s eRA • UNC: Goal to become leading US public research university • Must improve/enhance infrastructure • Facilities/Space • Tools • Marketing/Business Intelligence
Enhancing Carolina’s eRA • Must improve Research Admin • Must do more with less • Greater efficiency • Faster response time • Greater coordination between offices • Lower the barriers for investigators/students to do Research • Maintain highest levels of compliance
Enhancing Carolina’s eRA • In the Past…. • Research offices had no way to interact electronically • Significant lack of coordination • Many processes were manual and/or paper-based • Very slow (and frustrating)….
Enhancing Carolina’s eRA • ORIS: Office of Research Information Systems • Created in 2005 • Mission • Analyze/Streamline Business Processes • Design/Implement Tools • Create a unified Business Process for RA • Overall: Improve Research Admin
Enhancing Carolina’s eRA • Now and in the future…. • More centralized approach to RA • Unified Business Processes • Electronic Workflow and Processing • Greater Accessibility • Leverage Data for Business Intelligence and Marketing