Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS), one of Indonesia's leading research universities, deployed Discover RIMS as its institutional research information system in 2025 — and now runs it in production across 2,500+ researchers, 15,300+ publications, and 18 faculties and research units. This short post is a teaser; the full case study, with the deployment timeline, the data-reconciliation journey, the measurable outcomes, and the lessons for similar institutions, lives at our dedicated UNHAS case study.
Why UNHAS chose a modern RIMS
Like many fast-growing research universities outside the traditional centres of higher-education infrastructure spending, UNHAS faced a familiar problem: a research portfolio outgrowing the spreadsheets, departmental tools, and ad-hoc reporting processes that had previously sustained it. Ranking submissions, accreditation reports, and strategic planning all needed the same underlying data — and assembling it consistently each time was a quarter-year project. The institution needed a system that could deliver continuously reconciled research data, integrated across global sources, without the licensing costs of legacy enterprise platforms designed for a different market.
What "in production" actually means here
The numbers are the easy part: 2,500+ researcher profiles, 15,300+ publications, 18 faculties, collaboration mapped across dozens of partner countries, top researcher h-index of 47 (Professor Firzan Nainu), data continuously reconciled across ORCID, Scopus, OpenAlex, Crossref, and Scimago. The harder part is what those numbers represent: every institutional dashboard, every ranking submission, every accreditation report now draws from the same authoritative dataset. The annual scramble has been replaced with a maintained capability.
Lessons for similar institutions
UNHAS's experience generalises in three ways. First, data reconciliation is harder than vendor selection — the platform matters, but the initial coverage and identifier reconciliation work determines whether the platform produces value. Second, multi-source ingestion is non-negotiable for institutions whose output includes regional, open-access, and non-English work — coverage shaped only by Scopus systematically understates them. Third, continuous beats periodic — once the system is synchronising automatically, every internal request and external submission becomes a query, not a project.
Read the full case study
The dedicated case-study page covers the timeline, the team, the technical decisions, what changed for researchers and administrators, and the institutional outcomes — including how the same foundation now supports a CoARA-aligned assessment posture and ranking submissions across QS, THE, and ARWU. Read the UNHAS case study →
Frequently asked questions
Is UNHAS the only institution running Discover RIMS in production? UNHAS is our reference deployment and the institution we cite publicly with their permission.
Can our institution see UNHAS's actual platform? Yes — UNHAS's public research portal at discover.unhas.ac.id is open, live, and is exactly the experience our platform delivers.
How does this compare to the legacy enterprise RIMS we already evaluated? The detailed comparison lives in the case study, but in short: modern stack, faster deployment, no licensing structure designed for the wealthiest institutions only.
Where to start
Read the full UNHAS case study, then talk to our team if a similar deployment at your institution looks possible.