InfoEd Global vs ResearchMaster Enterprise

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.

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.