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Development Of Research Administration And Management System For Higher Education Institutions In Developing Countries: Case Study Of Durban University Of Technology, Misheck Nyirenda, Oludayo Olufolorunsho Olugbara, Sibusiso Moyo
Development Of Research Administration And Management System For Higher Education Institutions In Developing Countries: Case Study Of Durban University Of Technology, Misheck Nyirenda, Oludayo Olufolorunsho Olugbara, Sibusiso Moyo
The African Journal of Information Systems
Research information management has become an essential activity for higher education institutions (HEIs) worldwide as a mechanism to aggregate, curate, utilize and improve the transparency of information about research. It has led to the evolution of proprietary software systems for administering and managing research information in HEIs. However, the literature reveals that most proprietary software systems are usually inflexible, costly to maintain and do not adequately satisfy the dynamic requirements of HEIs in developing countries. Consequently, the demand for current information systems is to incorporate a high degree of formalism into software development processes to produce correct, flexible, usable and …