Cayuse, Inc.

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Overall, Cayuse is a great product and it has made our jobs easier. And hallelujah that NSF is going to Grants.gov and that Cayuse handles that too.

Cayuse424 Product Features

Below you will find a list of product features for our current release, version 3.5.

Research Administration

Pre- and post-award administration become easier and more dependable with processes and features that allow you to manage this complex activity.

Proposal Validation and Submission
  • Validate and error-check every proposal against an array of specifications - submit error-free proposals every time
  • Prepare and submit proposals for opportunities from NIH, AHRQ, CDC, NSF, Energy, Defense, and others
Fast Production
  • Download opportunities from Grants.gov
  • Secure, safe and efficient assembly of proposal documents and forms
  • Single-button printing of entire proposal
Routing
  • Routing and approval methods built to match your institutional practices
  • Complete control over all critical data and activities, such as submission
  • Eliminates the need for most status e-mail communications from Grants.gov
  • On-screen Proposal Cover sheet can replace or enhance your routing forms
  • One system for routing and approving federal and non-federal proposals
Financial Controls
  • Calculates indirect costs from account budget periods and time-dependent changes to rates
  • Build full budgets and have the data flow automatically into modular budgets with correct roundings
  • Complete budget calculations including indirect cost and fringe benefit rates
  • Line-item exclusion from indirect cost calculations

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH

Cayuse424 gives the investigator and departmental research administrators everything they need to prepare and submit convincing proposals.

Web-based Ease of Use
  • Built to be flexible and allows you to use your individual work methods
  • Easy-to-use workspace with rapid navigation through all the forms
  • Upload, and route for approval, all of your critical documents used to prepare the proposal, even those that do not get submitted
Productivity
  • Collaborate and share your proposal with complete security and control
  • Automatically attach a single research plan document to the appropriate form sections, using Cayuse templates or your own PDF
  • Auto-fill your senior and key personnel into budgets and other forms at one time
  • Maintain and store multiple Biosketches with the Professional Profiles
  • Advanced auto-fill allows you to populate the proposal with your collaborators easily and quickly
  • Alphabetically order senior/key personnel forms with a single button push
  • Generate PDFs automatically from forms data
  • Upload PDFs and native documents to server for backups and version control
  • Clone and copy your proposals; transform your proposal from one opportunity to another
Budget Calculations
  • Complete budget building with all calculations
  • Configurable budget escalators for most budget categories from period to period
  • Reduce or eliminate the use of Excel in building budgets
  • Copy budgets from one year to next

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Cayuse424 integrates with your information technology assets to make your research administration processes efficient and reliable.

  • All common browsers supported for Mac, PC and Linux
  • Single sign-on (SSO) integration services available for PubCookie and Shibboleth environments
  • Bulk import user information and user characteristics at system start-up
  • Reliable server technology uses universally trusted open source platforms
  • Stable, modern programming technologies for reliable, sustainable systems
  • No Java runs on the client, only JavaScript, reducing administration
  • No need to purchase Adobe Acrobat (full version) for PDF generation