We are quite proud of the system we put together and are happy to extend
it to other universities.  To ensure you are successful in deploying the
system, we are offering an inclusive license package for ARGIS that
entails meeting with your key staff to identify your business policies,
tailoring ARGIS to meet those business policies, training your staff,
and providing technical support for the remaining portion of the first
year.

ARGIS is designed to support the cradle to grave concept for Contracts
and Grants.  It provides for an online proposal submission form to be
used by the PI or other support personnel, which then handles routing
the proposal for review to the appropriate chairs and deans associated
with the investigators involved.  From there, the Proposal
Administrators within the Office of Research receive electronic notice
that the proposal is reviewed and ready for processing.  The proposal is
then sent out to the agency (we will soon have the interface to
electronically submit to Grants.gov).  Upon award, Contract and Grant
Admins access ARGIS to enter award data, budget info, etc.  From there
ARGIS automatically electronically routes the award data to our Finance
and Accounting Office who use a PeopleSoft interface to establish the
needed account numbers for the project.  For PIs, ARGIS provides them a
direct login to view all of their proposals & awards, documents, and a
balance report for each of their accounts (by querying on behalf of the
PI the system that tracks account expenditures and encumbrances).  There
are numerous reports, search methods, etc.

In regards to the technical implementation, ARGIS currently runs under a
Windows Server environment with ColdFusion MX 7 and MS SQL Server as the
database backend.  We have implemented the use of FLASH in places we
felt aided in the display or function, used javascript, CSS, and XML,
but for the average user we have tried to keep their interface simple
and therefore only relied on the basic functions of a web browser - not
requiring other plugins (FLASH is the exception to this of course).
This enables our PIs and Office of Research staff to work from anywhere
at any time to access ARGIS.

If you would like additional information, we would be glad to send you a
brochure on ARGIS.  You may also be interested in visiting the ARGIS
website at http://www.argis.crata.ucf.edu or you're welcome to try out
the demo site we established as well at http://demo.argis.crata.ucf.edu
 We can also schedule a WebEx-type demonstration for you and your staff.

Andrea Adkins from our Technology Transfer Office (xxxxxx@mail.ucf.edu)
can send you our license agreement if you'd like.  As you'll see in the
agreement, it outlines optional services offered by UCF to ARGIS
licensees that includes technical support beyond the first year, legacy
data conversion, server maintenance, development of new functionality or
modules, etc., development of interface to an institution's financial
systems (i.e. PeopleSoft, etc.), and interface to other systems such as
document management, etc.  Since these costs are unique to your
university's environment, we can only provide estimates for these costs
upon having a better understanding of the full requirements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Andrea
Adkins (Technology Transfer Office).

Thank you for your interest!

:)
-Tammie

Tammie McClellan
 Director
 Center for Research Administration Technologies & Applications
 University of Central Florida
 407-882-1388
 xxxxxx@crata.ucf.edu
 http://www.crata.ucf.edu

Barbara A. Howell, M.A.
Coordinator Research Office, Public Administration Instructor
UCF College of Health & Public Affairs
Phone: 407-823-3914 Fax: 407-823-4895 Cell: 407-595-3866

Dedicated to the development and administration of faculty research.

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