Which product is Altum’s experienced team of consultants delivers consulting and solutions that address the full life cycle of software implementation in the areas of:
Grants Management
Altum has been providing software solutions for grants management organizations since 1997. Our Professional Services arm employs the experts you need to implement a complete end-to-end grants management solution. Our proven implementation methodology provides a clear path from requirements through final assurance and rollout. To streamline implementations, Altum uses a collaborative approach during the configuration process. This process is faster and simpler than the traditional “waterfall” approach to systems implementation.
Through our vast experience with numerous organizations, our staff can provide the best practices associated with the entire life cycle of the grantmaking process, which includes:
- Advertising available grant opportunities
- Applicant/user self-registration
- Applicant preparation, validation and submission
- Internal and external review of applications
- Award selection
- Notice of award
- Agreement preparation
- Grants management
- Progress reporting
- Financial tracking and reporting, including budgets and payments
- Closeout
- Management reporting and analysis
Strategic Planning & Performance Management
At the heart of every organization is a plan that provides guidance and vision to ensure that all the employees are moving in the same direction to achieve a common goal. The challenge with many organizations is communicating that vision and ensuring that tactics and objectives align with the overall mission of the organization. Altum’s Professional Services staff works hand in hand with our customers to implement strategic planning and performance management solutions that effectively bridge the gap between strategy and execution and link strategic objectives to the budget.
Implementing a centralized solution ensures that more time will be spent analyzing information and making decisions rather than wrestling with data and spreadsheets. Ultimately, this solution leads to identifying the most effective programs and effectively budgeting future projects.
Budget Formulation & Execution
Struggling with spreadsheet version control, re-keying numbers, verifying calculations and fixing spreadsheet links is not an appropriate use of valuable time. Control, security, workflow and data management issues surrounding your budgeting and performance management information need to be addressed in order to reach your organization’s overarching goals effectively.
Just as ERP systems helped organizations improve the efficiency of their transactional processes, performance management software is helping companies improve the effectiveness of their management processes.
Altum’s Professional Services staff has extensive experience implementing budget formulation and execution systems for organizations around the world. Altum can transform your enterprise spreadsheet budgeting process into an enterprise budgeting solution that will decrease the time spent on budgeting exercises and preparing annual budget documents.
See Altum in Action
- Grants Management: American Cancer Society
- Grants Management: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- Grants Management: proposalCENTRAL – Alzheimer’s Association
- Strategic Planning and Performance Management: Research Initiatives Management System (RIMS) – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Budget Formulation and Execution: AIDS Budget System (ABS) – National Institutes of Health, Office of AIDS Research
- Budget Formulation and Execution: Analysis of Integrated Resources (AiR) – National Institute of Mental Health