- The Department of Chemistry needed a data management solution to support its broad research areas and ongoing national and international academic research programs
- The inability to electronically capture and search results in research papers and lab notebooks was leading to the risk of experiments being re-run, knowledge not being utilized and vital information being difficult to find
- Getting a clear view of research and intellectual property (IP) across departments and geographic locations was very difficult, making research governance particularly challenging
- The complexity of searching experimental data and results and requirement to meet the diverse needs of the physical, inorganic, synthetic, biological, nano, polymer and theoretical chemistry departments was causing significant support issues