We are going with ORACLE.....however, we discovered late into the process
that the pre-award module is lacking in most aspects. We also discovered no
other university tat has actually rolled out the pre-award module. However,
as of Jan 2005, we will be using the module to route proposals for
signature, etc.

Planning for this roll out - along with all of the other groups on campus
included HR and Financials, has forced the opportunity to look at all of our
business processes. We have been able to define new processes that better
align the tasks associated with research and sponsored projects. Please let
me know how the Banner process goes and if anyone else is considering ORACLE
or has made the commitment, please let me know -

Wendy A. Lawrence-Fowler, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Research
University of Texas-Pan American
Edinburg, TX 78541

e-mail:  xxxxxx@panam.edu
Phone: 956-381-2889    Fax: 956-381-2863

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On Behalf Of
Herbert B. Chermside
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:27 AM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Banner

We will be going to Banner soon, for accounting.

We are thoroughly committed to InfoEd for all our pre-award, and we also
have Human Subjects, Animal Subjects, and will soon be coming up with
Proposal Preparation and Protocol Preparation.  This will provide us with a
comprehensive, integrated and fully electronic pre-award and received award
system.   Therefore we will not be thinking about the Banner pre-award.  We
will have to develop certain interfaces so that Accounting can take the
InfoEd data as input to Banner.  InfoEd should be able to provide a
starting point for that which we will have to tweak for our specific
installation.

I'd be delighted to hear of others' success or discouragement with the
Banner pre-award, and any ideas about moving information from a different,
but much more complete, preaward database to Banner.

Chuck

At 10:11 AM 7/8/2004, you wrote:
>Is anybody using Banner's Pre Award component of the Research
>Accounting/Grant Module? If so, I would appreciate any information you
>have about the proposal side of things. We are in the process of
>converting to Banner (Finance goes live in January) from SIS+. Right now
>we do not have any software for tracking proposals, etc (we just keep a
>big list). The proposal portion of Banner's Research Accounting will
>allow us to enter a "grant" at the proposal stage (including attaching
>the document and creating the budget). Then it will allow post award to
>link the proposal to the grant (award) they create when it is funded.
>You can report and search on both proposals and grants(awards). It's
>great and we're excited. However, we have to set up the proposal codes
>for our use. If anyone has experience with the pre award module, I would
>love to hear it. Thanks in advance.
>
>Sincerely,
>Heather
>M. Heather Dragoo
>Sponsored Research Specialist
>Sponsored Research Office, WA 104K
>University of Southern Indiana
>8600 University Blvd.
>Evansville, IN 47712
>(812) 465-1126
>xxxxxx@usi.edu
>www.usi.edu/gr&res/ogsr.asp
>
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