Cayuse (SmartGrant) vs. SAP for Higher Education and Research

Cayuse (SmartGrant) is well suited for institutions who have multiple grants and projects that need to be organized, tracked, and followed up with. The closing and sorting of projects is also helpful when using this software. Multiple signers also have access to approvals electronically which makes the process more simplified and accessible for all parties involved.

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When I was at university, I used this product, which was quite new to me at the time. Since starting at my new institution, I've had the opportunity to learn more. It contains a lot of features and resources that facilitate integration with other systems and improve the efficiency of procedures. The software is not the simplest to use or comprehend. It has many features, making it challenging to learn everything. I had to enlist assistance.

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• Organizes all project information
• Allows for easy approvals from individuals
• Allows for tracking of project from inception to award status

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• The concur platform integrates all the necessary steps for reservation, expense reports, and reimbursement.
• It has customer supports that can easily be reached by emails.
• It emails the users for any important process steps.

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• The ability to sort through rfps easier would be helpful
• Being able to include feedback/comments on the process would be helpful for tracking and organizing from parties involved
• Understanding accessibility in a more clear way would be great

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• Error Handling : Sometimes it created some issues where there was not enough explanation. But I think it is mostly related with the consulting company making poor development.
• In every period, when students tries to access to the system all together and sign up for the courses, it always crashed for minimum a week. I think it requires Load Balancing.
• The options we used were very limited there, I think there is more capabilities for collaboration is still needed. For example, exams, homeworks etc can be managed by itç

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Cayuse (SmartGrant) has been in place at our institution for a while and we wouldn’t examine using anything else because it has been easy to work with, access, and stay organized with. Cayuse (SmartGrant) is also used for our office of research and is separate from our development software to keep everyone organized.

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With its many partnerships and connections with other software used in higher education and research, SAP may assist institutions in streamlining their operations and enhancing access functionality. I chose SAP because I am already familiar with the other SAP products. I couldn't think of any other tools which stacks up against SAP for Higher Education and Research

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• Cayuse (SmartGrant) helps us bring in grants and track the award paperwork
• The award paperwork process and reporting is easily trackable
• Uploading documents like LOIs and proposals are simple

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• There were a lot of other platforms also used along with SAP for Higher Education and Research, I believe reducing these needs would be very important overall.
• At the background, there are a lot of important functionalities reside like Accounting, HR etc. and this is where SAP for Higher Education and Research comes very powerful I believe
• Cloud version would be a lot useful especially considering that, user logins are always seasonal so extra help always needed to balance the loads in the network.

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