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: 100 th Activity Insight client, including 1 st 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 o 400,000+ faculty are in Activity Insight o 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 o Driven to Excel o Humbly Confident o Helps Clients and DMers Succeed o Persistent o Embodies Integrity  Our organizational structureorganizational structure o 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 o 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 o We can do more: Suggest citations and UI enhancements  On the “use it many times” front… o Workflow, Open Access Repository integration o More benefit for faculty o Custom CV builder o Searching for faculty on campus…or on other campuses Your input will be key…