Cayuse Award Management vs ResearchMaster Enterprise

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.

ResearchMaster Enterprise is an organisation-wide system for organising, administering, reviewing and overseeing research from inception through completion. Its suite covers grants, ethics, higher degree research, outputs and contracts. Grants Management tracks work from notice of intent to project completion and includes ARC and NHMRC integration and reporting. Ethics Management handles human, animal and biosafety applications, reviews, approvals and renewals, with configurable routing and committee meeting tools. Configurable online forms support mandatory fields, notifications, comments, reminders, escalations and automated workflows, and are described as compatible with mobile devices. Dashboards, external researcher profiles, built-in reports and scheduled reporting support oversight. Integration options include a REST API, provider-agnostic feeders for university Finance, Student, HR and repository systems, plus ARC Grants, NHMRC Grants, NHMRC HREA and ORCID connections. The product is available through web, API and self-hosted platforms. The vendor offers implementation, migration, configuration and integration services, alongside a dedicated Engagement Manager, help desk and ongoing training. Pricing is on request; a quality assessment tool is listed as coming soon.