Empowering University Leaders with Unmatched Research Intelligence
Equip your leadership team with the clarity and confidence to act on what matters most. With Academic Analytics’ trusted, high-quality curated data, you’ll move from scattered metrics to a unified, institution-wide view of research performance down to the department and faculty level.
Spot emerging strengths, uncover funding, identify faculty recognition and collaboration opportunities, and allocate resources for maximum impact. The result: actionable intelligence that elevates your reputation, accelerates discovery, and turns strategic plans into measurable outcomes.
Presidents & Provosts
Lead with confidence by harnessing the insights that drive institutional excellence.
From faculty achievements to resource allocation, our tailored solutions empower you to lead with clarity, foster innovation, and stay ahead in an increasingly competitive higher education landscape.
With R&D spending reaching a record $97.8B in FY2023, Presidents and Provosts are leading in a high-stakes, highly competitive arena. This scale demands sharper prioritization of research strengths, disciplined resource allocation, and a compelling case for ROI to boards, funders, and policymakers. Winning means capturing your fair share of funding, recruiting and retaining top talent, and accelerating partnerships that translate investment into measurable impact, reputation, discovery, and economic value for your region and beyond.
National Science Foundation, Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) Survey, 2024
Research Office
Our tailored solutions unify funding pipelines, faculty achievements, and peer benchmarks, empowering you to prioritize investments, accelerate collaboration, and demonstrate institutional impact in an increasingly competitive landscape.
For Research Offices, peer benchmarking is not a nice-to-have, it’s a growth lever. Universities that benchmark regularly see a 15–20% improvement in targeted academic hiring and resource allocation over five years, converting limited budgets into strategic advantage. With clear, comparative insights, you can direct hires to high-potential areas, shift funds to programs with the greatest marginal impact, and build evidence-based cases for deans and boards so you can accelerate progress on your institution’s research priorities.
Education Advisory Board (EAB) Research, 2022
Faculty Affairs Leaders
Our tailored solutions surface achievements, illuminate career growth opportunities, streamline reviews and develop faculty, nurture talent, strengthen retention, and build a culture of recognition and growth.
Institutions that use analytics to align nominations with faculty strengths see up to a 25% increase in external awards and recognitions, lifting visibility, credibility, and morale.
For Faculty Affairs leaders, that means building a scalable, equitable recognition pipeline that improves retention and showcases excellence across disciplines. With clear insight into who is award-ready and which honors fit their profiles, you can time nominations strategically, track outcomes by discipline and demographic, and close recognition gaps, turning accolades into sustained career growth and institutional reputation.
Academic Analytics Client Impact Study, 2023
Medical School Leaders
Unify faculty and departmental research intelligence, benchmark performance against true peers, and surface collaboration pathways that empower you to prioritize your investments, grow foundation funding, accelerate translational impact, recruit and retain top clinician–scientists, and elevate your school’s clinical and academic reputation with measurable results.
At this scale, academic data and analytics are essential to lead with precision. Benchmarking departments against true peers, spotting emerging strengths and underfunded opportunities, aligning hiring and infrastructure with grant potential, optimizing award nominations, and mapping collaborations that accelerate discovery. The payoff is faster, smarter decisions that elevate research excellence, strengthen reputation, and convert limited resources into measurable impact for patients, communities, and the institution.
AAMC: NIH Funding and Academic Medicine
Deans & Department Chairs
Turn faculty activity into actionable strategy at the school and department level. Benchmark performance against true peers, pinpoint high-potential areas, and direct resources, hires, start-up packages, core facilities, and mentoring where they drive the greatest impact.
Track publication and grant pipelines, surface collaboration opportunities, and align award nominations with faculty strengths to elevate visibility. Streamline annual reviews and promotion and tenure with verified data, support equitable workload and development, and build compelling, evidence-based cases for budgets, accreditation, and strategic plans.
Academic Analytics gives you the comparative evidence to target proposals, hires, and core investments where your department has a clear advantage. Turn limited budgets into more funded awards, stronger publication pipelines, and measurable gains in reputation.
CIOs & CTOs
Transform fragmented academic data into a secure, governed intelligence layer that scales. Academic Analytics delivers high-quality research and faculty data through cross-functional tools supported through SSO and role-based access. We make our data available to your data warehouse in a variety of ways, giving you the ability to create your own analyses.
Reduce shadow spreadsheets and manual reporting, accelerate time-to-value for leadership dashboards, and free your teams to focus on higher‑impact analytics while strengthening data quality, consistency, and security across the institution.
CFOs
In a $97.8B academic R&D environment, finance leaders need clear line-of-sight from investment to impact. Academic Analytics brings together verified, faculty-level research data to empower evidence-based budgeting, optimize the external funding portfolio, and strengthen indirect cost recovery. Identify potential new grant pipelines, quantify ROI on hires and core facilities, and pinpoint areas of strength to protect and grow while reducing manual reporting costs with standardized metrics that integrate into your BI and planning tools.
The result: smarter resource deployment, stronger margins, and measurable gains in funding and reputation.
How USF Advanced Research Excellence Through Analytics
Faced with the challenge of scaling research impact and aligning academic priorities, the Universityu turned to Academic Analytics for a structured, evidence-based solution. This case study highlights their journey toward strategic clarity, faculty engagement, and improved research visibility.
Request access to our case study - The Power of Sustained Focus: An Inside Look at University of South Florida's Growth and Strategic Vision - and the complimentary webinar for a deeper understanding of their approach.
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