Cayuse, Inc.

Control and Visibility from Pre-Award through Post-Award

Manage the life cycle of sponsored projects with Cayuse SP, a flexible, user-friendly Web application designed to reduce complexity, improve collaboration, and provide visibility from pre-award through post-award.

Online Participation and Tracking Cayuse SP is designed to handle the business side of sponsored research projects, from proposal creation to award close-out. With pre-built functionality designed specifically for research organizations, Cayuse SP offers industry-standard functionality that adapts to the needs of nearly any research organization, quickly and cost-effectively.

Role-based Collaboration Dashboards provide visibility and access to the organization’s inventory of proposals and awards at various states of the routing and approval cycle. Route proposals through the internal steps necessary for compliance and research office approval.

Integration with Cayuse 424 makes it easy to prepare and submit federal proposals to Grants.gov and Research.gov. Researchers, departmental administrators, Chairs, Deans, and the central office all participate in a web-based proposal review and approval process.

When awards are issued, pull proposal data forward, or initiate awards for contracts, grants, or other sponsored activity as needed. Manage all activities associated with negotiation of subcontracts, including data merge into word processing subcontract templates.

Cayuse SP handles routine email notifications for deadlines, approvals and other key events. An integrated work flow engine makes it easy to build complete case files, assign tasks, track activity and handle ad hoc business requirements without system modifications.

Robust reporting With over 50 pre-built reports, Cayuse SP is designed to deliver the information needed to manage the research enterprise. The reports provide management visibility into all important aspects of the research organization. View reports on proposal activity, funding rates, awards by school, department, PI, or sponsor, and many more categories. One-click export to Excel makes it easy to further customize report data.

Hosted for lower IT costs Cayuse SP is a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) solution. The system is delivered over a secure Web browser connection, and deploys with minimal customer IT involvement. With substantial pre-built functionality, Cayuse SP offers a path to improved accountability and productivity without the expense and long development cycles associated with other research system implementations.