ResearchMaster Enterprise vs Workday Expenses

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.

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