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Datawatch ERAMS : Features & Benefits
Features
- Offers complete web-based solution for automatic documentation of compliance with grant commitments
- Ensures prevention of over-commitment of investigators and staff time
- Provides browser-based adjustment of certification data by employees
- Ensures support for extensive audits of all related data
- Delivers built-in data connectors for easy integration with multiple, disparate host and data environments, including structured databases and reports, and unstructured content repositories
- Allows certification process to be designed per grant, department or total institution
- Reconciles data in grant-accounting system with the data in payroll system
- Documents actual effort delivered by each research staffer for each grant
- Automatically extracts data from payroll systems to fill-in monthly certifications
- Allows all research staffers and primary investigators to update their time commitments per grant for each month, possibly several years in advance
- Securely stores all forms within the system to ensure users can audit data
Benefits
- Supports the three main effort-reporting processes: planning, certifying and auditing
- Ensures that your institution does not "over-commit" any staff members or primary investigators
- Supports rapid auditing of all forms and documents
- Allows auditors to compare data in accounting, payroll, and grant-accounting systems with staffer "certifications"
- Allows for auditors to easily generate "audit worksheets" for selected period, grants, or employees, and attach documents and annotations to those worksheets, and assemble worksheets into a "case folder" that documents the entire audit.
- Provides for OMB Circular A-110 requirements
- Works with existing payroll and grant accounting systems to avoid costly replacements or modifications