Hi Someone from the group emailed me directly this week with questions on the racc review session. I inadvertently deleted the email so I can't respond. If that person would contact me again I would be happy to respond! Tracy xxxxxx@iup.edu Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Huard, Suzanne" <xxxxxx@UNH.EDU> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:10:51 To: <xxxxxx@hrinet.org> Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] Banner in Pre-Award Offices? 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") ====================================================================== ====================================================================== 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") ======================================================================
