Jane, InfoEd' InfoOffice could be a good "front end" for handling
proposals.  They posted an announcement some time ago about creating
interfaces with various accounting systems, and Peoplesoft was one.  I'm
cutting and pasting below because I am not sure that attachments work on
this listserve.

Chuck

NEWS RELEASE                                            Contact: Maria Michael
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                           Director of Marketing
 InfoEd
International, Inc.
 (518)
464-0691

InfoEd Works With SAP and SCT
to Develop System Interfaces

GUILDERLAND, NY, October 5, 2000 - InfoEd International, Inc. is pleased to
announce they are working in collaboration with Systems Application
Products in Data Processing (SAP) and SCT to develop system interfaces for
the seamless integration of their accounting systems and Info.Office,
InfoEd's software solution for electronic research administration.  This
approach provides institutions with the option to select the accounting
system that best suits their needs knowing that InfoEd is committed to, and
actively developing these interfaces.

InfoEd is the premier research administration systems vendor, currently
with 14 integrated modules in operation.  InfoEd is now adding another
facet to their product mix by taking functionality and integration even
farther, directly into an institution's financial system.  This
functionality will increase the reporting capabilities of the Info.Office
system and remove the need for accounting systems to be customized.

Attached, is a news release from InfoEd Europe, detailing our relationship
with SAP to provide complete pre-award to post-award business solutions for
research administration.  In addition, under an agreement with the
University System of New Hampshire, InfoEd is working with SCT to develop
an interface between InfoEd's Proposal Tracking module and SCT's Banner
Financials system.

These are just the first steps of InfoEd's commitment to providing the
research administration community with a solution that meets all their
business needs while giving them the flexibility to choose the products
that are right for them.  InfoEd expects that within the next year,
interfaces with all primary accounting system vendors will be complete.

InfoEd International, Inc. is the world's leading provider of systems and
services supporting research and intellectual property
administration.  There are currently more than 800 installations of systems
and services supporting hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.  InfoEd
International is headquartered in Guilderland, New York USA with offices in
Manchester, England UK.  The InfoEd International, Inc. web site is located
at http://www.infoed.org.

-30-

At 10:15 AM 1/11/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Gerri,
>   University of New Orleans (and actually the whole LSU System) is in the
>process of installing the various modules of Peoplesoft.  I'm not an
>accountant so can't say exactly how the functions & modules are classified
>by the software, but I know we have Payroll and General Ledger up and
>running.  There might be more in the background that I'm unaware.  The
>General Ledger provides us in research administration (and PI's) some
>things in general accounting that are useful, however, my understanding of
>the real "bread & butter" that we need, i.e. Proposal Tracking is
>w-a-a-a-y far from implementation.  Anyone out there know about this?
>Our dilemma is going to be that we have now 5 years of accumulated data in
>the system we are using that will somehow need to be converted.  I believe
>the grants tracking functions of Peoplesoft are still "vaporware" (I could
>be wrong on this, have not investigated in a while), but aside from the
>basic functionality of that module, the conversion process is going to be
>our real issue.  Thus I'm interested in the responses to your inquiry.
>
>- Jane Prudhomme
>
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>    Research and Sponsored Programs
>        University of New Orleans
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>Gerri Hobbs wrote:
>
> > Dear Research Administrators:
> >   The University of Delaware is currently working towards implementing
> > Peoplesoft Projects.  We are interested to see how many other schools
> > are currently using Peoplesoft Projects or are considering using
> > Peoplesoft Projects or Grants.  I would appreciate any information you
> > can provide me.
> >
> > Thank you for your time.
> > Gerri Hobbs
>
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