About
Company
VIP-R Pty Ltd is a private company based in Melbourne, Australia servicing a global audience. Staff are located locally as well as in other Australian states and overseas.
Staffed by research sector experts, software professionals and supported by a very experienced management board, VIP-R Pty Ltd is a professional and experienced organisation, working globally to provide the very best possible insights to research performance.
Service
VIP-R provides insights about research performance via a comprehensive collection of configurable graphical analyses.
The data supporting VIP-R is relevant to all organisations in the research sector, is collected in an ongoing fashion, and has been analysed, categorised and optimised.
Data sources include national and local government sources, government, industry and private granting bodies, universities, hospitals, research centres, research associations and other sources.
All analyses are created by research sector specialists and are designed for maximum relevance and clarity across all major research performance metrics including:
- research income
- research outputs
- research financials
- postgraduate candidature
- discipline information
- student/staffing demographics
and many more.
VIP-R Infrastructure
VIP-Research is built with Microsoft technologies and hosted on Microsoft's Windows Azure platform. The service is secure, utilising https protocols and is subject to Microsoft's Cloud Services Service Level Agreement, ensuring uptime of 99.95%. More information about Microsofts SLA can be found here.
People
VIP-R staff have extensive experience in creating information rich software products for the Research Sector. Key staff have multiple decades of experience analysing and understanding the metrics associated with research performance. Many have also been consulting to the sector for much of this time.
VIP-R also has created an advisory board of leading global experts that meet regularly to keep abreast of developments, changing and new directions in research performance metrics.
VIP-R Research Analysis Consortium (Australia)
The Research Analysis Consortium is an initiative by VIP-R Pty Ltd to foster a collegiate approach to analytical performance benchmarking as well as fostering research funding via small business.
Membership to the Consortium allows universities to upload selected internal data and perform detailed analysis against other like minded research entities. Depending on the level of detailed data provided, the depth of analysis can provide significant insight into how an organisation is performing against other similar entities within specific discipline areas or with respect to particular elements within an organisation.
Membership is offered only to Australian Universities at this time, to clients who have subscribed to VIP-R for a minimum 1 year with an Internal Data Upload Subscription.