A research analytics system and method, includes an Internet-based data storage service maintaining, using an integrated database scheme, standardized research process flows, organizational tasks, and research outcomes for a plurality of research programs. The system maintains definitions of research performance indicators, identifies targets for the research performance indicators that are aligned with goals associated with a research organization, maps performance-related data from various data sources to the integrated database scheme and stores the standardized research process flows, the organizational tasks, and the research outcomes, grouped by the research programs. The system determines values of the research performance indicators using metrics, displays the research performance indicator values and associated targets, performs analysis using the stored performance-related data in order to determine an affect of the performance-related data for the research programs on the research performance indicator values, and adjusts the research performance indicators and the targets.