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Re: software William F Clark 29 Mar 2006 11:47 EST

I would second those thoughts about FMP. We do about a thousand
proposals and a thousand awards each year. We also created what we
call "Budget Builder" as part of FMP where we do all our proposal
budgets. Having everything in one database with XML export capability
makes us ready for that  glorious S2S day that's just around the
corner.

Bill
OSP, UC Santa Cruz

>"just Filemaker Pro" ??
>
>That is a great program.  The entire Proposal and Awards Data Base
>at the University of Michigan runs on just Filemaker Pro.  We manage
>4000 proposals and 2500 some awards per year with this system.
>True, the Accountants have PeopleSoft General Ledger and the two
>systems do not communicate but for the purposes of the Grants
>Office, we are excellently served by just Filemaker Pro on our 30
>some Macs (why we are not happy with Grants.gov right now).  The
>Accountants need to re-enter a few data items but they like to do
>that sort of thing, or at least they have not tried to create an
>interface.
>
>For anyone who needs a proposal and award management system with
>little expense for either Mac or windows based PC's I strongly
>recommend that you check out just Filemaker Pro.  I am sure that for
>a smaller institution, a financial component could be added too.
>
>Bob
>xxxxxx@umich.edu
>
>
>
>
>On Mar 29, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Carol Kernahan wrote:
>
>We don't have all those capabilities.  It would be nice.  Right now
>we're just using FileMaker Pro.
>
>Carol
>
>Carol Kernahan
>Financial Analyst
>Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
>University of California Irvine
>4200 Engineering Gateway
>Irvine, CA 92697-3975
>949-824-8328 (phone)
>949-824-8585 (fax)
>xxxxxx@uci.edu
>
>
>At 07:22 AM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
>
>>Colleagues:
>>
>>We are in the process of evaluating software to manage our projects
>>including grants and contracts.  I need to provide some comparison
>>information to my director today.  If you are a small non-profit
>>research organization with an annual budget of $20-100 million in
>>federal and non-federal funds, please tell me
>>
>>1) what accounting software (GL package) you use,
>>2) what software package you use to manage/track grants and
>>contracts, both pre- and post award, and
>>3)does your management software interface/interact with your GL
>>without re-entering the data?
>>
>>Please email the answers to the two questions and your contact
>>information directly to me at xxxxxx@harc.edu as quickly as
>>possible.  Thank you in advance for your assistance.
>>
>>Victoria [Gority] Henry, CRA
>>Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
>>Houston Advanced Research Center
>>
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