SURplus is the CINECA’s best-of-breed solution for a CRIS, Current Research Information System. It is an IT platform that makes it easy to collect and manage data on research activities and outputs within an organization. Researchers, administrators and evaluators are given all the tools needed to monitor research results, enhance visibility and efficiently allocate available resources.
SURplus supports universities and research institutes with:
- a data management of information relating to research activities of the University;
- an institutional repository of the products of scientific research (publications and documentary material including multimedia);
- tools for objective evaluation of research and scientific production based on statistics and indicators synthesis;
- an infrastructure for data integration in distributed subsystems of the university and the gateway to and from external systems, unifying data entry tasks and minimizing the possibility of error;
- the information reuse in different contexts: annual reports, curricula, institutional we pages and web sites of research units or individual researchers.
The modular nature of the system and the flexibility of its data model facilitate processing, organising and transmitting information in accordance with the international CERIF standard. At the same time SURplus allows to easily shape requirements of local and national significance.
Modules of SURplus solution are natively integrate with the IT infrastructure of the organization, both with legacy systems (such as HR, accounting databases) and external systems (regional, national and international databases).
