CommunityForce vs Fibi Research Administration Software

CommunityForce is a web-based awards management platform for grants, scholarships, fellowships, and research funding. It supports programs from funding discovery and applications through review, awards, disbursement, compliance, reporting, and closeout. Application tools include conditional forms, eligibility screening, shared applications across opportunities, and applicant dashboards. Reviewers can collaborate using scoring and rubrics, while administrators can manage bulk awards, renewals, and post-award requirements. Phoenix searches Grants.gov, IRS Form 990 filings, and a curated list for opportunities matching an organisation’s funding profile. Its AI features can summarize applications, suggest reviewer scores, flag AI-written essays, and answer questions using live platform data. The platform provides ad hoc reports, dashboards, exports, and embedded Microsoft Power BI dashboards. Integrations include Salesforce, DocuSign, Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, SMTP email, and Google Translate. The company says each organisation has a separate database and file storage in a private Microsoft Azure environment. It states that it is FedRAMP certified and SOC 2 Type II, and supports Section 508, FERPA, and PCI-DSS requirements. Pricing is available on request; the product pages direct prospective buyers to request a demo or speak with an expert.

Fibi Research Administration Software is an electronic research administration platform for academic institutions, medical centers and research organizations. It brings grants, compliance and research agreements into one system, covering work from funding discovery through project closeout. Fibi Grants handles proposal development, grant calls, budgets, award setup, reporting and award closeout. Compliance capabilities cover IRB, IACUC, IBC, COI and Export Control workflows. Fibi Agreements supports creating, negotiating, reviewing and approving agreements, with document generation, routing and version control. AI-powered workflows are advertised for reducing manual entry. The Integration Suite connects ERP and financial, HR and identity, SSO, sponsor and document systems through REST, SFTP, database and webhook connectors, with scheduled or real-time bidirectional synchronization. Deployment can be cloud-hosted or on-premises. Pricing is on request, with no free plan; a standard implementation can take as little as two months.