Digital Measures

This company makes software called «Digital Measures», not surprisingly. This software allows faculty at universities to enter their accomplishments (e.g., papers, talks) by hand.
This software allowed me to turn a 1 hour annual task into a 6 hour task (and this was after probably 2 hours of work by the college), and it also allowed me to turn an ‘excellent’ annual evaluation into a ‘good’ evaluation (this was revised when I turned in my CV).
This software provides you the ability, they say, to provide feedback on how to improve their software, but they do not pay you to do this. Most people now have to pay me to do this, I have gotten tired of doing it for free. In this case, it violates the good practices taught at local universities, and could be an example for design that lacks understanding about users and about how to input information quickly. It is, however, a good case study about how universities and others want to and are shifting work /​effort /​costs onto others, and how these costs, while small in each instance, are large when aggregated. Do not ask what the faculty will not be doing because they are grappling with this software, because there are real answers such as less course prep, less teaching, less research.
This software may be useful to the people who read the reports, but based on my experience, it comes at a terrible cost, and the results are not as clear as administrators hope, and, indeed can even be misleading.