1. Fall in love with Pure Krzysztof Szymański 07 March 2016
Kaunas, Lithuania

2. Pure Love: What is Pure?

3. Pure is… “…the friend you didn’t meet yet.”
A gateway to all your information
Tool to create analysis and manage your content
Support to your researchers, librarians and management

4. We succeed when our customers win…
Amsterdam 5, Netherlands
In competitive bid, in the heat of a ScienceDirect renewal/OA battle
City University of Hong Kong
To be first, to beat competition
Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas, Columbia
Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
South Australia Health and Medical Research Institute
New York University, USA
To heal the other systems burn…

5. “In God we trust; all others bring data.”
Pure
Research management suffers from unstructured processes and bad data
“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.”
- William Edwards Deming
“In God we trust; all others bring data.”
- William Edwards Deming

6. Data before and after Current data landscape at a typical university
Research information management system
Data:
Disparate
Has multiple IDs
Is not related
Is not homogeneous
Available at high FTE-cost
= CAN’T be used for management
or showcasing
Data:
Structured
Uniquely identified
Inter-related
Homogeneous
Available at low FTE-cost
= CAN be used for management
or showcasing

7. Processes before and after
Current data landscape at a typical
university
Research information management system
Processes:
Unstructured
Defined ad-hoc
Low degree of re-use
Incurs overloads
Project-driven
High FTE-cost
= LOW yield from FTE
Processes:
Structured
Defined in advance
High degree of re-use
FTE-consumption in annual planning
Driven by prioritized business needs
Low FTE-cost
= CAN be used for management
or showcasing

8. Pure Love: How it works?

9. Getting data into Pure Ingestion methods Local IT exports data into
XML files
Local sys adm
sets up job
to import data
Local sys adm
sets up
source
Clerical staff, librarians,
or researchers
Imports
Local sys adm
sets up
roles and rights
Clerical staff, librarians,
or researchers
types in data

10. BTW: Data is inter-related
Highly advanced reporting and showcasing is possible because of
these inter-relations
The
take-away is
Highly advanced reporting and showcasing is possible because of
these inter-relations

11. Types of data in Pure “Easy” “Medium” “Advanced”
Types of solution scopes
Persons
Organizational units
Funding opportunities
Grant applications
Grants
Projects
Publications
Datasets
Activities
Impact
Press clippings
Equipment
CVs
Ethical reviews
Theses
External persons
External organizations
Journals
Publisher
(Courses)
(Services)
Traditional “Experts” scope
Scope for Advanced Management Support
Scope for Advanced Publication Management
Develop your scope with care.
Everyobody can benefit!
“Easy”
Short delivery
Low customer involvement
Simple value proposition
Less “sticky” product
Short sales cycle
“Medium”
Medium delivery
Customer involvement
Medium value proposition
More “sticky” product
Medium sales cycle
“Advanced”
Longer delivery
Much customer involvement
Heavy value proposition
Very “sticky” product
Longer sales cycle

12. Pure creates value by support one or more business needs
Research Management
Strategy making Strategy execution Ad hoc management support
Live overview
Research Administration
Monthly department reports
Business process support
Compliance
Showcasing
Promote researchers Increase funding,
collaboration, re-use discoverability, and media availability RM web policies
Adv. Publication Man.
Open Access
Comply with funders, publishes
Manage Gold OA costs
Handle article versions
Overview full-text percentages
Communicate to authors
Faculty Activity Reporting
Assess performance: Publishing, metrics, impact, activities, teaching, datasets, press)
Support tenure + other HR decisions
Post Graduate Research student activities

13. Value Research Administration
Business need, use-case, feature, outcome, value-proposition
Pure’s reporting
module
People will trust reports
Readers will use report for more
Reports will be produced with less FTE
Reporters can do more
Office can offer more
Office image improves
A more correct and complete monthly report with more data
produced by less FTE
Research Administration
Monthly department reports
Business process support
Compliance
HR decision support

14. The stakeholder group depends on the scope
Stakeholders
The stakeholder group depends on the scope
Research Management
Strategy making and -execution, etc.
Central research managers (tier 1, 2)
Research office
IT department, HR, central clerical staff
Showcasing
Increasing collaboration, etc.
Research office, central research managers, PR, Funding office
IT department, the Web-ownership
Adv. Publication Man.
Open Access, etc.
The library
The funding office, IT department
Research Administration
Monthly department reports, etc.
Research office, local F/S/D/I management
Local clerical teams, IT department
Faculty Activity Reporting
Performance assessment, etc.
Faculty management
The funding office, IT department

15. Pure features in a nutshell
Quick overview of feature areas
Business intelligence
Using data for research management at many levels
Datamodel
Types of content in system 
Management tools
Pro-active RM by objectives
Messaging
In-system communication
Portals for public exhibition
Publish RM info online
Automated data provision
Systems integration and import
Advanced Publication Management
Use Pure for Open Access and more
Configuration
Make it fit your tasks
Support of the researcher
Online profile, CVs, fingerprint, funding discovery
Data creation and editing
Features for CRUD, workflows, processing rules
Award Management
Make Pure a grants management system
Security
Roles and rights

16. Backend (Pure itself), front-end (the Experts Portal), modules
Key concepts
Backend (Pure itself), front-end (the Experts Portal), modules
MODULES:
The Administration module
The Import module
The Reports module
The Funding Discovery module
The Award Management module
The CVs module
MODULES: the Experts PurePortal module

17. Pure features in a nutshell
Screenshot safari

18. Pure Love: Pure and the Community

19. Pure is Unique
We sit in a unique place in the Elsevier portfolio, bridging between the library, senior university management and the research office
We have highly engaged, supportive customers who are happy to share their success stories
We have 7 active user groups and almost 150 delegates attended the Pure Conference

20. Any questions? Any comments?
Q&A
Any questions? Any comments?

21. From Pure with Love.
Thank you