What is Dovetail?

Dovetail is a cloud-based research management platform designed to help research organizations and institutions manage complex research initiatives and boost collaboration. Its key features include:

• A centralized dashboard to view research projects, status updates, connections between projects, and an overview of institutional research activities.
• Tools for capturing ideas, references, notes to create an institutional knowledge base that persists beyond individual projects or people.
• Profiles for researchers and experts to facilitate connections and identify potential collaborators across the organization.
• Advanced semantic search to surface hidden connections between people, projects, and concepts across past and present initiatives.
• Embedded collaboration features like shared workspaces with wikis, to-do lists, and messaging to streamline teamwork.
• Customizable workflow templates that provide guidance and structure aligned to organizational best practices for initiatives.
• Robust integrations with reference managers, electronic lab notebook platforms, and other research software to prevent data silos.
• Custom reporting and analytics to provide insights into research activities, productivity, emerging areas of inquiry, and potential operational improvements.

By centralizing research knowledge and activities into a platform designed specifically for research organizations, Dovetail aims to boost productivity, innovation, and collaboration across complex, multifaceted research initiatives.

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