Thanks Rochelle for asking and Bob for responding.  I likewise, am interested
in any further comments re actual experience with the PeopleSoft Grants module,
and/or plans to implement on your campuses.
- thanks, Jane
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BOB wrote:

> Note that P/S GRANTS requires P/S Financials 7.5.  This is one reason why
> Michigan, while a development partner on GRANTS, cannot use the system.
> We have only Financials 6.0.  Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Colorado were the
> primary
> beta testers. I do not think any of them will be implementing GRANTS very
> soon
> because they do not have 7.5.   Michigan was not given access to the Beta
> version
>  at first and then  when the offer was made, we had insufficient resources
> to participate.
> Thus I cannot report on what improvements have been made over the pre-beta
> version
> we did test.  The system will prepare only NSF and NIH applications now but
> later versions are supposed to add further sponsors.  Development partners
> who
> cannot use the system can get a single user evaluation version.  We will do
> this
> in order to determine if it will fit our needs.  Our post award evaluatiors
> thought
> very highly of the system.  It helped solve many of the problems in the 6.0
> General Ledger.  Our pre-award evaluators of the pre-beta were not as
> pleased but
> I have heard many of their complaints have been addressed.  The multiple
> layers
> and id numbers for a single proposal was one area that may have been fixed.
>
> Organizers of NCURA or SRA conventions should provide for a session for
> participants in the two large proposal processing systems-- GRANTS and
> GAMS--
> to compare what they can do.
>
> Bob Beattie
> Senior Project Representative and
> Manager of electronic Research Administration
> The University of Michigan
> xxxxxx@umich.edu
>
> --On Wed, Sep 8, 1999 4:29 PM -0700 Rochelle Athey <xxxxxx@CALPOLY.EDU>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Resadm-l'ers:
> >
> > Does anyone know if the beta sites for the PeopleSoft Grants module have
> > reported on implementation and operation of the module in any public
> > forum?  Is there any information out there on the module besides what's
> > been provided by PeopleSoft?
> >
> > If anyone at one of the beta sites would like to provide an informal
> > report, I'm sure there are quite a few of us who would like to hear it.
> >
> > Pretty please with sugar on top?
> >
> > Rochelle Athey
> > Sponsored Programs Director
> > Cal Poly State University Foundation
> >
> >
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