This specialized team supports the University of Miami community by providing systems, facilities and resources to facilitate the conduct and administration of research, including:
- Providing process improvement assistance for research administration and related areas
- Configuring research application infrastructure to support administrative operations
- Capturing process and information requirements from end-users and stakeholders
- Developing training materials and end-user training on deployed functionality
- Offering end-user support as needed
- Tracking outcomes to improvement efforts
- Maintaining quality assurance and data integrity
The Research IT unit is responsible for:
- Strategic planning, involving technology to achieve research enterprise goals
- Process/Systems Analysis, Requirements Gathering, and Technology Evaluation
- Information management including optimization of the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information
- Research and Clinical Informatics
- Software Development, Maintenance, Configuration, Documentation, QA, and Testing
- Research system-to-system interfacing, integration, and workflows
- End-user support
