With rising pressure to secure funding and stay audit-ready, award management is more complex than ever. That’s why Cayuse’s Award Management solutions reduce manual work, support compliance, and help accelerate portfolio growth.
Award Management Software
Manage the full grant lifecycle from pre-award to post-award in one integrated system
Capabilities
End-to-end software solutions for every stage of the award lifecycle
Funding Search
Receive access to the most comprehensive global database of funding opportunities and stay ahead with grant recommendations related to your field. Maximize funding, find collaborators, and accelerate research with Fund Finder.
Grant Proposal Management
The industry standard for fast, accurate completion and submission of federal grant proposals. Navigate interactive federal 424 submission forms, automatically filling common fields and validating entries to improve first-time submission success.
Research Lifecycle Management
Our full-lifecycle research management solution provides seamless support for proposal and grant administration, tracking project submissions from inception through close-out with clarity.
Agreement Management
Cayuse Agreements streamlines contract workflows by consolidating all information related to your agreements in one central location, with visibility for both external and internal stakeholders to accelerate reviews with automated notifications.
Grant Financial Management
Gain greater transparency and control over research funding, from sponsored research to institutional funds. Oversight tools for multi-year projects, easy report generation, and future spending projections help track what’s been spent and when a project is forecasted to hit zero.
Effort Reporting
Gain flexibility to import payroll and other relevant data for automated effort monitoring and certification, ensuring full compliance with federal effort certification and payroll verification mandates.
Reporting & Analytics
Award Management Insights provides on-demand access to centralized award data and trends, with role-specific dashboards enabling your team to view, visualize, and share the performance metrics they care about from anywhere at any time.
"Cayuse has really changed our organizational culture — the culture of sharing information and transparency of information. It has helped to break down silos between departments and increased collaboration across departments.”
“The back and forth we used to do consistently with faculty and staff to get the whole proposal package has been drastically reduced… [Cayuse] does help people meet their deadlines in a much more effective manner.”
“We increased our bandwidth as far as how many proposals we can submit with the FTE that we have. Cayuse has a great way of tracking throughput and making sure things don’t get dropped.”
“There’s better authentication and data validation now... wherever there are missing fields and information, [the software] asks you to enter them in before you proceed. In the old system, you just kept going, and it would be missing data.”
Integrated award management, tracking, and reporting
Streamline workflows, improve collaboration, and boost transparency
Oversee your entire research portfolio
Role-based dashboards and SSO logins across the research suite enable transparent workflow management and 24/7 access to the information stakeholders need. No more status update requests, no more delayed responses.
Discover new sponsors, awards, and collaborators
Find the resources you need to support your programs with a modern funding search process featuring tailored recommendations and automated alerts for relevant opportunities.
Develop and submit proposals faster
Harness a system-to-system federal submission engine with autofill, over 1,500 smart validations, and sensitive language detection for 50% faster proposal completion.
Easily create budgets and track projects
Enable spend-to-zero performance on 75% of awards post-award grant management software offering live visibility into grant spend progress, and what-if forecasting for better resource allocation.
Reduce compliance risk
Controlled workflows and centralized, automated compliance monitoring — including agreements, funding, and effort — reduce risks and flag issues before they become liabilities.
Analyze and visualize your data
Eliminate manual data pulls and spreadsheet building with one-stop visibility into research performance and self-service reporting tools for easier data-driven decision-making.
A proven and trusted partner for Higher Education, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and more
Enabling growth and resilience at colleges and universities
Whether you’re an R1, R2, or just starting your research journey, Cayuse supports research campuses and academic institutions of all sizes with solutions that minimize administrative burden and maximize your impact.
Drive healthcare research and ensure compliance
The Cayuse suite gives teaching hospitals, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, and integrated delivery networks the solutions they need for less administrative overhead and stronger compliance.
Software built for regulated research environments
Our solutions help life science organizations navigate high-stakes, highly regulated animal and human research with robust protocol oversight and no-hassle reporting and audit readiness.
Exceptional value and a bigger impact
Streamline your nonprofit research operations with software that reduces waste and maximizes efficiency without sacrificing quality or straining available resources.
Empowering research around the world
Optimize operations, ensure good research governance, and more with solutions approved for operations in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and the APAC region.
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Award Management FAQs
Cayuse’s Award Management solutions create seamless digital workflows and transparently organize project data on a single, integrated, cloud-based platform.
Centralizing award and subaward management with accessible software helps to reduce administrative burden, improve compliance and accountability, and track progress, budgets, and expenses across pre-award and post-award workflows.
Cayuse’s automated processes streamline the search for funding, proposal development, agreement management, grant financial management, effort reporting, and data analysis.
Fund Finder improves the funding search with a single point of entry for browsing and searching for funding opportunities from a wide range of grantees, both private and federal.
Automated alerts notify users of new and active funding opportunities, while grant recommendations tailor potential funding sources to the specifics of your projects.
Cayuse Proposals (S2S) eliminates redundant data entry with repeatable workflows and autofill capabilities, ensuring accuracy for first-time federal submissions, and reducing rework or last-minute errors.
The software’s single submission portal for 30+ agencies simplifies workflows and training, helping users achieve a 99.9% first time successful submission rate and 30% faster completion times compared to using agency portals.
Digital routing and approval workflows for proposals, contracts, and effort reporting use automated forms and alerts to get submissions to reviewers faster and with fewer errors, promoting quick reviews and approvals while providing traceable digital histories of approvals and correction requests.
Cayuse gives you unprecedented control over project data and analysis with built-in tools for tracking progress and a centralized platform that eliminates duplication and enables clean data.
Cayuse Fund Manager provides transparency into grants statuses and budget tracking with a real-time view of your portfolio, data-driven scenario planning to manage spend-down, and configurable reporting to eliminate silos, share progress, and support financial compliance.
Automated effort reporting with Cayuse Project Effort eliminates manual data entry and verifies data for improved compliance and verifiable audit trails.
Cayuse Award Management Insights centralizes data from across pre-award and post-award processes to provide an organization-wide view into statuses, metrics, and accessible data visualization via role-based dashboards. Automated data synchronization helps teams build reports 50–70% faster, securing compliance and facilitating large-scale data-driven decision-making.
All Cayuse implementations are built on industry best practices for consistent results, backed by more completed implementations than any other eRA vendor.
Our standardized implementation packages include a fully-mapped process tailored to your desired timeline and requirements.
A designated Project Manager and an application specialist will work as extended members of your team throughout the implementation process and solution go-live.
Cayuse’s Award management solutions are designed for use by academic institutions, healthcare organizations, research nonprofits, life sciences organizations, and government institutions.