An expert portal for Heidelberg University: the right researcher in seconds.
heiEXPERT is the expert portal we designed and built for Heidelberg University, founded in 1386. Researchers show what they know, and anyone looking for a partner finds the right person by topic instead of asking around. We also look after the university's servers and built a shop where staff buy software licenses online.
See it in action
From a topic to the right person.
A home for every expert
Researchers sign up and present their skills and interests on their own profile.
Search by topic
Type a topic or pick a tag, and the portal lists every matching expert.
Keep a shortlist
Save the experts you want to contact and come back to them anytime.
The transformation
From asking around to one search.
Before
Finding an expert on a topic meant asking colleagues or digging through faculty pages.
Researchers had no shared place to show what they work on.
Getting a software license for staff took a separate request.
Now
One search shows every expert on a topic, across the whole university.
Each researcher has a profile with skills, interests and topics.
Staff buy software licenses in the university's own online shop.
What else we built for them
Behind the portal, three things the university relies on.
They needed systems that are always available
Servers that stay up
We set up and look after the servers, so the university's websites and tools keep running.
They needed licenses without the wait
Software license shop
Staff order the software they need online and get their license in a few clicks.
They needed a partner for every web project
IT advice on call
Our team advises on new web projects and connects them with systems the university already uses.
THE RESULT
A university where expertise is easy to find.
Anyone looking for a partner at Heidelberg University now finds the right expert with one search. Behind it, the servers, the software shop and new web projects are looked after by one team that has known the university for years.