The Soil CRC (CRC for High Performance Soils) was established in 2017 to give farmers the knowledge and tools they need to make decisions on soil management issues.
Through its research program, the Soil CRC develops solutions to unlock the potential of Australia’s agricultural sector, delivering:
To boost performance, flexibility, adaptability and engagement, Soil CRC’s defined requirements of a new grants management system were:
F1 Solutions proposed OmniStar Grants to meet Soil CRC’s needs.
OmniStar Grants is architected as an end-to-end Grants Management solution, consisting of three components – external portal, internal portal and CRM – that seamlessly interact to provide a highly flexible and feature rich platform for grant giving organisations.
These three capabilities around a centrally integrated solution would deliver tailored visibility and functionality to all stakeholders.
OmniStar Grants can be configured for simple or highly complex environments. It facilitates multiple approaches to manage grant development, application creation, awarding of grants and ongoing grant management and review. Within Soil CRC, this would promote standards-based procedures, increase efficiencies, enable stringent compliance and promote transparent, evidence-based decision making.
OmniStar Grants provides the automated business intelligence and analytics the modern organisation results.
OmniStar Grants’ Project Management functionality offers researchers and administrators information visibility for effective execution and management of projects.
People-based, as opposed to role-based, workflows fail when staff leave. OmniStar instead creates role-based workflows that allow new hires to quickly grasp their responsibilities.
OmniStar Grants provides a solution far more user friendly than databases and spreadsheets, or other legacy, grants-management systems.
Using a modern solution, on modern hardware and equipment, with a modern UX and UI creates great user engagement.
OmniStar Grants provides simple integration with identity providers for seamless security, FMIS services to synchronise payments and document management systems.
DNRME needed an improved grants management system and set of processes to meeting the desired level of service, probity and adherence to legislation
DPIE needed a contemporary grants management system to address existing limitations in their grant application, approval and management processes
CINSW selected OmniStar Grants as their innovations platform to administer and manage their research grants program.
ARENA needed a streamlined, flexible and adaptable system to manage a wide range of grants and projects and to inform vital decisions.