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The Challenge
Institutions struggle with scattered researcher profiles, duplicated publication records, and increasing pressure to demonstrate impact and meet national reporting requirements. Manual processes consume time, increase errors, and create stress during reporting cycles.
The Solution
Vidatum Research brings researcher profiles, outputs, projects, and impact data into one connected system. Automated data enrichment and integrations reduce duplication, improve accuracy, and provide a reliable foundation for reporting, benchmarking, and strategic planning.
The Challenge
Critical information is locked within separate systemsu2014finance, ethics, project management. When data is scattered, assembling a complete picture for leadership reviews, funder submissions, or audits requires manual, time-consuming collation from multiple sources.
This reliance on spreadsheets and ad-hoc queries produces inconsistent figures, delays strategic decisions, and turns every audit into a high-stress, retrospective data reconciliation exercise. Leaders lack the trusted, real-time visibility needed for confident governance.
The Solution
Vidatum Reporting draws connected data from every moduleu2014Research, Projects, Ethics, Compliance, and Timesheetsu2014into one unified reporting console. This eliminates data reconciliation and ensures consistency.
It provides configurable dashboards and trusted reports, giving research directors, finance officers, and ethics committees role-specific, real-time insights. Reporting shifts from a reactive task to a proactive tool for evidence-based planning and audit readiness.
Key benefits
A Unified Reporting Console
Access and cross-reference data from all Vidatum modules in one place, creating a single, authoritative source for all research intelligence.
Inherently Audit-Ready
Every report and dashboard is built on fully traceable, immutable source data, providing ready-made answers for internal or external audits.
Configurable Dashboards
Deliver tailored overviewsu2014from portfolio performance for leaders to compliance status for managersu2014based on the useru2019s role and responsibilities.
Evidence-Based Strategic Planning
Identify trends, allocate resources, and manage risk using accurate, timely data, moving from intuition-based to evidence-based decision-making.
Reduced Manual Reporting
Eliminate the need to manually merge spreadsheets, saving administrative teams days of effort each reporting cycle.
Detail & Depth
Utilise a library of standard reports (financial, performance, compliance) and build custom queries without technical expertise to answer specific institutional questions.
Export data, charts, and dashboards to Excel, PDF, or interactive HTML formats for inclusion in board packs, funder submissions, or public disclosures.
Monitor key performance indicators, project milestones, financial burn rates, and compliance statuses from a unified set of tools.
Configure reports to meet the specific formats and data requirements of major funders and national research assessment exercises directly.
A quick look at Vidatum Reporting
Reporting home dashboard
The reporting home dashboard provides a consolidated overview of institutional research activity. Key metrics across outputs, grants, contracts, ethics, and timesheets are surfaced to support oversight and decision making.
- High level view across research, grants, ethics, and contracts
- Visual summaries by department, funder, and status
- Time based trends for activity and approvals
- Quick visibility of items awaiting action
- Central entry point for detailed reports
Grant details reporting
Grant detail reports provide structured, tabular access to individual grant records. Institutions can review submissions, awards, allocations, and statuses in a format suitable for operational and audit use.
- Detailed grant records across proposals and awards
- Visibility of investigators, departments, and funders
- Funding amounts requested and awarded
- Status tracking from draft to approval
- Export ready data for internal and external reporting
Grants performance dashboard
The grants dashboard supports analysis of funding performance across time, departments, and funders. Interactive views help institutions assess success rates, trends, and pipeline activity.
- Grant activity by year and funding stage
- Success rates by department and funder
- Pipeline visibility across intents, proposals, and awards
- Trend analysis for planning and forecasting
- Evidence based insight for leadership reporting
Talk to the
Vidatum team
Discuss your institutionu2019s research management needs and see how Vidatum supports confident, compliant processes across the full research lifecycle.
