Cayuse Award Management vs OmniStar Grants

Cayuse Award Management is a cloud-based suite for research organizations managing funding and awards from discovery and proposal submission through post-award administration. Fund Finder searches funding opportunities and provides grant recommendations and alerts for new and active opportunities. Cayuse Proposals (S2S) supports federal submissions with autofill and more than 1,500 smart validations, through a single portal for more than 30 agencies. Fund Manager provides portfolio views, spend tracking, forecasts for multi-year projects, and configurable reports; it can connect with ERP, general ledger, payroll, and eRA systems. Project Effort supports automated monitoring and certification using imported payroll and related data. Cayuse Agreements centralizes agreement information and supports reviews with notifications. Award Management Insights offers role-based dashboards for award data and trends. The Cayuse Platform includes single sign-on across Cayuse applications, task tracking, shared user data, and API access; Report Connector can transfer data to tools such as Microsoft Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services. Pricing is on request. Cayuse lists weekday technical support from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time.

OmniStar Grants manages grant work from pre-award planning through administration and post-award reporting. It is built for government agencies, charities, universities, research institutions, and foundations, with funders, applicants, and recipients using the platform. Application workflows include SmartForms, eligibility checks, invitation and multi-stage rounds, collaboration, structured reviews, scoring, conflict checks, and digital approvals. Award administration covers contract generation, notifications, milestones, variations, payments, budgeting, and document versioning. Post-award tools handle progress and acquittal reports, outcomes, financial reconciliation, dashboards, reminders, and program closure. Administrators can configure forms, workflows, templates, dashboards, and reports, including drill-down reporting and data exports. Integrations include ABR/ABN, GrantConnect, FMIS, document and records management, ORCID, Microsoft Teams, Europe PMC, and DocuSign, plus REST APIs and webhooks. Listed security controls include role- and record-based access, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, audit logs, and encryption at rest and in transit. OmniStar says it is IRAP and ISO 27001 certified. The cloud service is accessible through devices and browsers; pricing is tailored to internal users and available by quote.