Value for Researchers
From gaining a better understanding of our world to discovering the solutions to today’s biggest challenges, researchers shape progress and work towards a better future for everyone.
Thanks to our research background, we understand your specific needs as a researcher and aim to provide the easy-to-use, modern digital solutions you need to minimize delays and overcome obstacles for a faster research lifecycle.
Research Platform
Everything you need, all in one place. The Cayuse Research Platform provides a centralized, cloud-based suite with solutions covering the entire research lifecycle from start to finish.
Improve communication and collaboration across departments by improving transparency and eliminating barriers. Our connected apps give you on-demand access to the information you need, when you need it.
“Cayuse has really changed our organizational culture — the culture of sharing information and transparency of information. It has helped to break down silos between departments and increased collaboration across departments.”
Director of Sponsored Programs & Technology Transfer
Sponsored Projects
Cayuse Sponsored Projects provides a centralized hub for all stakeholders to track submissions from inception through close out, facilitating internal workflows and linking to the rest of the Cayuse Research Platform to ensure consistency and compliance.
Better efficiency, transparency, and reporting for Research Administrators
- Prepare, track, and manage your projects through a centralized online portal
- Access all details of your projects using a single login
- See where your projects stand and who is responsible for the next steps with full transparency for all users
“With Cayuse, each lab administrator can put in information and review everything in the system at the same time. It’s been a big time saver for us.”
Associate Director, Office of Sponsored Programs
Pre-Award
Grow your research portfolio, comply with changing regulations, and reduce administrative burden with Cayuse’s Pre-Award solutions.
“We’ve seen an increase in the number of proposals that are being submitted through Proposals as opposed to Grants.gov. Our awards increased over $100 million this year.”
Executive Director, Sponsored Projects
Proposals (S2S)
The de facto industry standard for fast and accurate federal grant proposals. Cayuse Proposals (S2S) helps institutions of all sizes accelerate proposal development, reduce pre-award burden, and improve the success of federal funding proposals.
Achieve greater proposal volume and award success
- Collaborate and share proposal-related documents through a transparent, centralized location
- Utilize a user-friendly interface designed with researchers in mind, unlike federal portals
Post-Award
Become a successful steward of your funding, manage your research portfolio, comply with changing regulations, and reduce administrative burden with Cayuse’s Post-Award solutions.
Fund Manager
Cayuse Fund Manager supplements and leverages your ERP systems for a financial management solution tailored to the research lifecycle.
Manage your teams’ funding and plan future expenses
- Easily navigate the funding process with grants and contract language designed for researchers, not esoteric accounting terminology
- Monitor grant spend in real-time with full transparency into award amounts, transactions and expenses to date, and institutional encumbrances including applicable F&A
- Plan for the future with projections and what-if scenarios
“We are saving 15 hours per week with Cayuse Fund Manager. No more spreadsheets, no more errors.”
Administrative Secretary for Sponsored Research and Foundation Relations
“The product immediately touched on all of our hot-button issues: increase faculty participation and meet federal reporting requirements in a timely manner.”
Assistant Vice President of Sponsored Research and Contract Management
Project Effort
Cayuse Project Effort is our time and effort certification and reporting software, designed to help you comply with federal effort certification and payroll verification mandates.
Save time with faster certification and reporting
- Reduce time spent on effort calculations and tracking down PDF signatures with automated certification reporting
- Review automatically generated spreadsheets to approve your effort on a project with a single click
Risk Management
Prioritize the safety of your team and your subjects and ensure compliance with Cayuse’s Risk Management solutions.
Human Ethics
Our cloud-based tool facilitates the submission, review, and approval of IRB protocols. Cayuse Human Ethics makes it easier to compare submissions for faster protocol reviews.
Reduce IRB turnaround times and increase protocol transparency
- Reduce ambiguity and unnecessary correspondence with administrators with full transparency into the review process
- Track your submissions as a student researcher while ensuring your supervisors have full access and oversight of the study
- Guide protocol design with smart forms to reduce approval delays
“Cayuse has changed a lot with our department. It has streamlined a lot of our processing and has organized our department. It has made our IRB institution more organized — no paper anymore — and has really ramped up our number of studies. Now more of our providers and residents, even more of our medical students, are interested in doing research at our institution.”
Institutional Review Board Coordinator
“Our researchers and staff are very satisfied with the user-friendly, high-performing software. They were especially pleased with the transparency throughout the entire lifetime of a protocol.”
Office for Research Committee Support Director
Animal Oversight
Cayuse Animal Oversight manages the lifecycle of animal use protocols from authorship to the end of the study and helps to address key compliance concerns.
Monitor your IACUC/ACC protocols
- Separate dashboards for various roles allow researchers with IACUC/ACC membership to clearly view their responsibilities
- Save time and only respond to questions pertaining to your research with configurable smart forms
- Quickly add IACUC/ACC pre-approved procedures or drugs to your protocols with Cayuse-supported dictionaries and standard operating procedures
- Manage and review all protocols in one place with Cayuse’s centralized Platform
Hazard Safety
Cayuse Hazard Safety manages the lifecycle of biosafety protocols from authorship to the end of the study and helps to ensure that all key compliance concerns are addressed.
Improve reporting and manage IBC meetings
- Customizable dashboards for various roles ensure researchers with IBC membership have a clear separation of roles at a glance
- Save time and only respond to questions pertaining to your research with configurable smart forms
- Manage and review all biosafety protocols in one place with Cayuse’s centralized Platform
“We were looking for cloud-based IBC and IACUC solutions that would easily share data with each other. We evaluated five vendors, and when we saw Hazard Safety, it literally made us smile. It’s clear that Cayuse knows what compliance offices need for success.”
Senior Director of Research and Sponsored Programs Administration
“With Cayuse, we eliminated thousands of administrative hours annually while growing, since we don’t have as much administrative burden. Now more resources can go to the investigators.”
Director of Research and Sponsored Programs
Outside Interests
Cayuse Outside Interests enables you to easily disclose any potential conflicts of interest or conflicts of commitment.
Simplify conflict disclosures for everyone on your research team
- Easily add entities with potential conflicts to existing disclosures instead of completing an entirely new form
- Quickly submit COI for time-sensitive grant funding opportunities
- Reduce time-consuming correspondence with reviewers with in-app workflows that flag incomplete necessary information
Resource Management
Promote the welfare of animal research subjects and optimize your facility management Cayuse’s Resource Management solutions.
Vivarium Operations
Cayuse Vivarium Operations comprises four separate but fully integrated applications for procuring animal subjects, monitoring inventory, recovering costs, and managing billing.
Ensure the well-being of your research team, facilities, and animal subjects
- Eliminate the risk of over-ordering with a transparent view of animal balances
- Stay up-to-date with animal orders with pre-programed expected delivery dates and full visibility into delivery details
- Easily track procurement, census, and other charges in real-time through the Billing application
- Utilize several accounts on an invoice if an account is at risk of exhaustion
“It’s a lot easier for us to verify orders against the protocol with Cayuse, since the systems are integrated. It has enabled us to be ahead of regulatory compliance. We’re proactive instead of reactive.”
Training Program Manager
“I’m very happy with Cayuse and use it constantly! The system has made reporting health issues to the attending vets and the PIs much faster. We’ve reduced the time between an issue being reported and somebody checking on the animal significantly, and we can say we have documented follow-ups for all health issues.”
DVM, Biological Resources Center Director
Vet Care
Cayuse Vet Care helps you provide high-quality animal support and reduces time spent on record-keeping through transparency and automation tools.
Ensure animal welfare for quality research and regulatory compliance
- Submit cage-side health reports to vet staff for more immediate intervention
- Review, revise, and approve automatically routed treatment plans
- View all assigned treatment activities on your daily task list
- Automatically create medical records for animals using key identifiers for enhanced reporting and searching capabilities
Research Outcomes
Bolster revenue generation and drive ROI for your organization with Cayuse’s Research Outcomes solutions
Inventions
Cayuse Inventions is a cloud-based application built to manage all aspects of commercialization, technology transfer, and intellectual property management.
Manage all stages of the tech transfer lifecycle
- Easily submit agreement requests and invention disclosure forms electronically
- View the status and activity of your submissions in real-time through a dedicated inventor portal
“I’ve met with everyone on the Cayuse team who deals with us; all of them are people of high integrity and have a genuine passion in trying to help us do this. A lot of them come from tech transfer or understand it pretty implicitly, so it’s worth your time.”
Senior Licensing Associate, Office of Technology Commercialization
Secure360
Keep your teams protected and compliant with Cayuse’s Secure360 research security solutions
ThreatShield
Cayuse ThreatShield, powered by IPTalons, offers proactive vulnerability detection, management, and prevention services to keep your teams safe from internal and international threats.
Bolster your institution’s security practices and compliance
- Ensure all team members have submitted accurate foreign conflict of interest disclosures
- Vet potential collaborators for potential security concerns
- Stay on top of potential vulnerabilities with monthly reports
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