GrantsNow vs InfoEd Global

GrantsNow is a cloud-based platform for managing pre-award and post-award grants, due diligence, ethics, and contracts. Its Opportunity Scanner searches funding opportunities from sources such as UKRI, Horizon, and Grants.gov; a separate funder scanner covers more than 200 global funders, with filters, alerts, and conversion of call data into funder templates. Proposal tools let institutions configure forms and approval workflows, add peer review, and flag outstanding actions. Costing supports multiple budget scenarios, full economic costing models including FEC and Horizon, and recalculation. After awards, teams can manage setup, budgets, milestones, changes, compliance, and reporting integrated with ERP systems. Ethics and due diligence workflows include custom forms, automated approvals, collaboration, and centralized risk, compliance, governance, and document management. Contracts tools cover creation through renewal, with tracking, reminders, and digital signatures through DocuSign or another third-party application. Integrations include Oracle systems, Unit4, TechnologyOne, and SAP. Pricing is on request; the maker offers a free demo and says its team can assist with implementation and system integration.

InfoEd Global provides research administration software for institutions, universities, and corporations. Its suite covers SPIN Global Suite, Research Compliance, Animal Facilities, Technology Transfer, Grants & Contracts, Clinical Trials, and Research Outputs; the company describes more than 20 integrated modules that share information. Grants & Contracts supports proposal development, pre-award and post-award workflows, financial tracking, and reporting. SPIN lists more than 40,000 funding opportunities from over 10,000 sponsors, with editorial staff maintaining and quality-checking the data. Users can save searches, bookmark opportunities, and receive SMARTS email notifications. The web-based Proposal Development module supports simultaneous collaboration and system-to-system submissions for agencies and forms that accept Grants.gov applications. InfoEd offers local or SaaS deployment, with a highly available multi-host configuration available for either. Browser access is designed for mainstream browsers with virtually no client workstation requirements. Security controls are configurable and granular, with report access restricted according to user security. Pricing is on request; InfoEd offers training, rollout planning, data conversions, technical services, integrations, testing, and consulting.