Dear Colleagues:

Of particular concern to institutions competing for U.S. Federal Awards
is how to handle submissions to Grants.gov.  Grants.gov's selection of
PureEdge software presents significant difficulties.  PureEdge is only
available on Windows at the present time and Grants.gov is restricted to
Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Even with Windows, Internet Explorer, and
a technically savvy user there are still significant challenges to
putting an application together and submitting it in the required
manner.  At best this approach offers document management rather than
data management.

Columbia University has purchased Grants Management Software from InfoEd
to streamline its sponsored program activities and to address the
transition to Grants.gov.  InfoEd has a module known as Proposal
Development (PD) which presents a solution which promises to provide us
with collaborative capabilities, centralized S2S Grants.gov submission
for the institution, and ways to prevent many of the causes of
Grants.gov rejected proposals due to technical / form errors.

InfoEd's product is web-based and platform-independent.  It is vital to
not leave Mac, Unix, and Linux faculty underserved and it is our duty to
our institution and to the research community to assist them in the
ability to remain competetive for U.S. Federal Awards based on the
worthiness of their proposed science, education, and service programs
rather than on their operating system choices.

The InfoEd product features tightly integrated modules assisting
investigators and administrators in collaboration sponsored programs
activities from the initial concept through award close-out.  Throughout
the Award life-cycle, the collaborative abilities and simple
user-interface promise to help streamline workflow.  With much of the
application being automatically populated by data and logical rules put
into the application by Central Administration, users have less to enter
and therefore fewer errors will result.  Keeping all of the information
in a relational database, InfoEd also provides promise to increase
Central Administration's capability to provide strategic decision-making
data in new ways to institutional leadership.

Although InfoEd's full functionality is outside of the scope of this
discussion we believe that the Product will deliver what we need for the
Grants.gov transition as an institution.

 Martin Emerson  Low
 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION
 Project GrantsMap
xxxxxx@columbia.edu
 (212) 342-5607

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