Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Must have ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) that allows for integration of all functions into one complete system to streamline processes and information from across the entire organization i. Integrate with Banner to import faculty teaching and employment related profile data (school/college, address, race/ethnicity, gender, faculty rank and appointment status, where they obtained their degrees, faculty transcripts, etc.) ii. Work with industry standard integration management and ETL tools such as Informatica, Mulesoft, etc. iii. Allow for integration through standard secure methods such as SFTP, APIs, Web services, etc. 2. Capacity to deliver a public facing institutional web profile by faculty to showcase the research and scholarly achievements, offer exemplars of innovative learning, provide current information on academic unit strengths to facilitate faculty recruitment, and create visible faculty profiles to help potential students identify faculty in their fields of interest. 3. Facilitate identification of potential teaching and research collaborations across Mason faculty i. The database should be easy to navigate so that faculty can Identify potential collaborators and faculty research expertise for grant writing and interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary (I/M) collaborations (research, teaching, and curricular) ii. The data should be organized using a customizable taxonomy so that public website visitors and potential academic collaborators can sort and search by useful terms including, regions of the world or nations, language, and topics. For example, we should be able to see a listing of people, academic publications, sponsored (and non-sponsored) research, etc relating to terms like “Sierra Leone” and “Environment”.
