Experience the new world for researchers with MatchingNeeds
More time for research. Less administration.
MCSS digitizes research processes from the first idea to project completion. Less Excel, emails, and approval loops - more time for research, innovation, and impact.
What is holding you back today
Are your research processes already end-to-end digitized—or are Excel spreadsheets, shared folders, endless email threads, and paper-based approvals still taking over?
When information is scattered, responsibilities are unclear, and data is maintained in multiple places, administrative friction builds up. This costs your institution valuable time, complicates management and oversight, and takes away researchers' time and focus from their core work.
The solution?
A platform that adapts to your processes.
MCSS is a modular research management platform that can be integrated into your IT landscape. You start with the features you need today, and expand the solution as new requirements arise.
Your research processes. Central, transparent, and simple.
Research management does not have to consist of separate Excel files, emails, and manual coordination. MCSS connects funding applications, project management, controlling, publications, and open access in a seamless system.
This way, researchers, research services, finance, and libraries work with the same up-to-date information – aligned with the processes of your university.
Your research data. Your infrastructure. Your control.
MCSS operates in your own IT environment. This way, research, personnel, and project data stay where they belong: under your control – protected by your security policies, your access rights, and your governance.
Your path to less administration and more research
Together we digitize your research processes step by step – tailored to your workflows, your IT landscape, and the needs of your employees.
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Understanding Your Needs
A Workshop with all involved stakeholders to create a shared understanding of processes, challenges, and expectations.
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Experience Your Solution Early
You will see how your future processes work through a prototype.
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Define Processes Together
The experiences gained from the prototype will be translated into adetailed specification.gegossen.
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An Environment for Your Tests
Configuration of the custom solution: This test system is already integrated into the university's IT landscape.
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Practical Testing
Next, there will be jointtest roundswith all stakeholders and interest groups.
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Quality Assurance
Final adjustmentsand theacceptance test.
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Start Productively
After successful acceptance, the system will be put into operation:The digital research management is operational.
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Be Supported Long-Term
Lifetime supportfor customers and maintenance of the application by MatchingNeeds.
Our Success Stories
A small excerpt of our numerous satisfied customers:
Get to know our experts
Our experts bring extensive knowledge and experience to consistently deliver outstanding systems.
Excellence in software development
We value clean, efficient code to develop scalable and high-performance software that meets the highest standards.
Years of research experience
Our project management team mainly consists of individuals who have themselves been active in research for many years - they know the pitfalls, opportunities, and potentials of higher education inside and out.
Data security is our top priority
Unlike many competitors, we reject cloud hosting and are fully on-premise. This allows us to ensure that your data is always protected.
A comprehensive insight into innovation and quality
Transform your research institution with our innovative research management system that combines efficiency and user-friendliness. Optimize your workflows with a tool that promotes productivity and collaboration.
FAQs
Our system has over 25 years of development history and has been consistently designed for maximum flexibility. With its modular structure, it can be precisely tailored to your specific requirements. A major advantage for you: the system is designed to be so intuitive that you can easily make many configurations yourself.25-jährige Entwicklungsgeschichte zurück und wurde konsequent auf maximale Flexibilität ausgelegt. Durch den modularen Aufbau lässt es sich exakt auf Ihre spezifischen Anforderungen zuschneiden. Ein großer Vorteil für Sie: Das System ist so intuitiv gestaltet, dass Sie viele Konfigurationen ganz einfach You can make them yourself.The software also visually adapts seamlessly to your institution, as the user interface can be fully customized to your individual corporate design.Corporate Design angepasst werden.
Your data sovereignty is our top priority. MCSS runs completely on-premise, meaning on your own servers on-site. We understand that research institutions work with highly sensitive information where data protection is paramount. Therefore, we have no cloud mandate: you retain full control over your infrastructure and meet the highest security standards without having to compromise on data storage.On-Premise, also auf Ihren eigenen Servern vor Ort. Wir wissen, dass Forschungseinrichtungen mit hochsensiblen Informationen arbeiten, bei denen Datenschutz oberste Priorität hat. Daher gibt es bei uns keinen Cloud-Zwang: Sie behalten die volle Kontrolle über Ihre Infrastruktur und erfüllen höchste Sicherheitsstandards, ohne Kompromisse bei der Datenhaltung eingehen zu müssen.
Our system is designed for maximum flexibility: only the basic module is mandatory.Basismodulforms the necessary foundation and is required for operation by default. All other modules arepurely optional.
This means for you: You do not have to purchase a rigid complete package, but can tailor all additional modules exactly to your specific needs and requirements. Modules that you do not need will simply be left out.
To ensure that you receive an optimally configured product, we support you in the selection during ajoint consultation meeting. There we analyze your processes and assemble the modules so that the solution fits perfectly with your way of working, completely without unnecessary ballast.
The project execution at MatchingNeeds takes place in a structured, multi-phase process that ranges from the initial needs analysis to long-term support:
- Workshop & Needs Analysis:Together with all involved stakeholders, needs, expectations, necessary data structures ("silos"), and workflows are documented.
- Prototyping:Creation of a fully functional prototype that meets the requirements (initially without external interfaces or third-party system connections).
- Detail Specification:Refinement of the requirements based on practical experiences with the prototype.
- Configuration & Integration:Creation of the custom solution and integration of the test system into the existing IT landscape (e.g., of the university).
- Testing Phase:Conducting intensive testing rounds involvingallstakeholders.
- Optimization:Making final adjustments based on feedback from the testing rounds.
- Acceptance:Formal acceptance tests for quality assurance.
- Go-Live:The digital research management system goes into productive operation.
- Lifetime support:Continuous maintenance of the application and support for clients by MatchingNeeds after project completion.