All,
We transitioned to Banner Finance/HR in 2002. We reviewed the proposal tracking/research administration functionality of Banner during the implementation phase and found it inadequate. We then evaluated and licensed InfoEd modules to manage the non-financial aspects of our business and are active uses of the Proposal Tracking, Human Subjects and Lab Animals modules. We are in a prolonged implementation of InfoEd's proposal development module. We have licenses to the tech transfer and environmental heath/safety modules but the staff who manage these operations are not within our office and they have thus far chosen not to implement the modules.
During our initial purchase of Banner, we contracted with the vendor (SCT at the time) to create baseline feeds into the Banner grant tables. The Banner feeds allow us to maintain proposal and award data in InfoEd and feed these data to the appropriate tables in Banner, avoiding duplicate entry. (UNH created the InfoEd extract/processing logic that feeds the Banner process). We use the InfoEd ESA table/process to keep our GENIUS records updated with data from Banner HR. (For this one, we created the Banner/HR extraction and process logic).
Good luck with your explorations.
Suzanne
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Suzanne Huard
Mgr, Info Systems & Technology Tel: 603-862-2005
Office of Sponsored Research Fax: 603-862-3564
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824 xxxxxx@unh.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Research Administration List on behalf of Office OF Research
Sent: Fri 2/6/2009 3:19 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Banner in Pre-Award Offices?
Tiffany:
Your scenario sounds so familiar!!! We have exactly the same situation
and are attempting to use both, as a result of having difficulties in
the areas you mentioned as well as finding Banner is inept to track cost
sharing and other compliance related information such as Human subjects,
Animals and Bio & Radio-active hazardous materials etc. I would very
much appreciate hearing how you resolve these issues as well.
Best,
Laura Murphy
Coordinator of Sponsored Programs
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
University of South Dakota
605-677-6301
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Hamblin, Tiffany
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:56 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Banner in Pre-Award Offices?
Good Friday afternoon,
We are a pre-award office at an institution whose post-award office uses
Banner exclusively. We have been under pressure from our post-award
office and financial affairs to abandon the Access database we are
currently using and move to Banner, mostly to save the post-award
accounting office from much of the data entry that goes into setting up
new sponsored project accounts. We have attempted to use the proposal
module within Banner, but it is not sufficient for managing our office's
other areas of responsibilities. Our IT department has been reluctant
to customize Banner forms because they don't want to lose customer
support, and we have found it impossible to use Banner's proposal module
for tasks such as tracking budget revisions and the issuance of
subawards.
We would like to know if any pre-award offices are using Banner
effectively and whether any institutions have been able to find a way to
appropriately track subawards using Banner. We would appreciate hearing
from those who agree that Banner is not a suitable pre-award office
system as well as those who have been able to find a way to make it
work.
Thanks so much,
Tiffany
Tiffany L. Hamblin
Associate Director
Division of Sponsored Programs
Eastern Kentucky University
Jones 414 / Coates CPO 20
521 Lancaster Avenue
Richmond, KY 40475
(859) 622-3636
(859) 622-6610 fax
xxxxxx@eku.edu
www.sponsoredprograms.eku.edu
======================================================================
Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including
subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available via
our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists")
======================================================================
======================================================================
Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including
subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available
via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists")
======================================================================
======================================================================
Instructions on how to use the RESADM-L Mailing List, including
subscription information and a web-searchable archive, are available
via our web site at http://www.hrinet.org (click on "Listserv Lists")
======================================================================
