Curvita Cooperative Comparisons

Curvita delivers unique and powerful capabilities by integrating with your current systems and enhancing your ability to collect, organize, and leverage the activity data for your faculty, staff, and students. The software’s uses are many, but we have found that there are two main categories of existing software whose functionality can be expanded or optimized when working side-by-side with Curvita.

No matter what system is currently in place at your institution for research administration and activity tracking, Curvita will enable you to reach the full potential of the efficiencies that they provide.

Research & Grant Administration

The table below shows how Curvita’s document generation capabilities can fill the gap left by other software, giving you the ability to submit more grant applications and renewals in less time, ensuring that you retain the valuable sponsored programs that you already have while enhancing your ability to garner new funding.

	Grant Submission	Biosketches	Data Tables	Grant Management
Curvita		+	+
Cayuse	+			+
Click Commerce	+			+
Coeus	+			+
Kuali Coeus	+			+
InfoEd	+	+		+

· Cayuse

As a popular web-based research management system, Cayuse helps users locate and apply for funding opportunities as well as manage awards. Though it makes the grant application process much easier through integration with Grants.gov, the actual content of those applications must still be generated by your faculty and staff. This is where Curvita fits in perfectly with its ability to easily generate NIH and NSF biosketches and data tables. The documents are easily exported out of Curvita for inclusion in any grant application through Cayuse, giving you both the content and the submission vehicle to apply for and retain more grants and more funding for your institution.

· Click Commerce

Click Commerce provides a suite of tools for research management, including SF424 e-Submission tools. Curvita can be a valuable resource for generating the content in the applications that Click Commerce helps create. The bulk of a grant application, biosketches and data tables, are exported form Curvita and into Click Commerce to make assembling grant applications and renewals a breeze and enhancing both the quantity and quality of your applications.

· Coeus/Kuali Coeus

The Coeus system is a favorite for many institutions due to its simplicity and open source license. Like other systems, Coeus focuses on the processes of research administration and leaves the generation of application in the hands of the faculty and staff. This is where Curvita becomes a valuable ally; by allowing efficient generation of grant application and renewal documents and data tables, it allows the full efficiencies of the Coeus system to be realized. This will result in more grant applications and renewals than ever before, all in less time.

· InfoEd

As one of the most well-established and full-featured research administration systems around, InfoEd helps medical centers, universities, institutes, and corporations ‘increase the impact of research’. When it comes to acquiring the funding that the research requires, Curvita steps in to provide the data and documents that fuel the grant application and retention process.

Activity Tracking, Networking, & Collaboration

While some software packages are designed to track and report on faculty activity, and others are designed to help administrators connect researchers with funding opportunities or other researchers, no single system holds the wide array of features that Curvita does. By combining data collection, integration, and reporting with document generation, Curvita fills in the gaps left by other software while adding unique capabilities offered by no other product.

Feature	Funding Opportunity Software	Faculty Activity Tracking Software	Research Collaboration Software	Curvita
Data Repository	+	+	+	+
Assignable editing		+	+	+
Integration w/ Publication Repositories	+		+	+
EndNote Integration				+
Full Profile Import/Export with Excel				+
CV Generation	+	+		+
NIH/NSF Biosketches	+			+
Grant Table Generation				+
Website Generation	+			+
Website API		+	+	+
Two-way Sync				+
Custom Reports		+		+
Custom Data Types		+	+	+
Ad Hoc Reports		+		+

· Funding Opportunity Software

Designed as a tool for research administrators to connect their faculty with funding opportunities, this software typically builds a database of faculty profiles which contain only the information related to its function, and can be fairly limited. By using Curvita as the single point for profile management, colleges and universities can leverage Curvita’s integrations with other data repositories on campus to ensure that the profiles in those systems are as current as possible and therefore maximize the odds of finding a solid funding match.

When a funding opportunity of interest is found, Curvita can then be used to aid in the application process with its outstanding document generation functions, creating perfectly formatted and up-to-date biosketches and data tables to maximize acceptance with minimal staff effort.

· Research Collaboration Software

A trend in our ever-globalized world is the increase in software that aims to help researchers find collaborators, both at home and abroad. Profiles on these systems are commonly populated with faculty activity information such as publications, teaching, service, and professional affiliations – all data points that can be supplied by Curvita. By assuming the data collection duties, Curvita ensures that collaborative software is supplied with the most current and complete information available. In addition, each Curvita user has the ability to share their own customized web page with the world, making is easy for potential research partners to find them.

· Faculty Activity Software

Existing faculty activity software may serve an institution well, but may not be able to store all of the data points that a college or university would like to track. Because these products are typically remotely hosted, they do not have the ability to integrate directly with on-campus systems that store sensitive data (such as admissions or funding) that needs to remain inside the institution’s domain.

Curvita fills this gap by being housed on local servers, and thus has the ability to form complete, two-way integrations with on-campus systems. Sensitive data can be safely transferred to Curvita and readily utilized in grant applications, in addition to Curvita’s out-of-the-box NIH and NSF biosketch generation tools. As an added bonus, Curvita can pull existing profile data from current faculty activity software through a web interface to give you a complete set of Curvita profiles right out of the gate.