Introduction
The Analysis Module™ is an easy to use, flexible system for the categorization, annotation, augmentation and recording of information on federal grants and other federally funded projects. Through the use of a GUI interface, end users, without the aid of IT technicians, can improve the quality of existing data records with interfering with the ability of other users to interact with the augmented data records in exactly the way that they had prior to any Analysis Module™ enhancements.
Customer Applications
The implementation of Altum's Analysis Module™ at the National Institutes of Health illustrates the benefits of the system. There, Altum’s Analysis Module™ is used to categorize grants into the specific health improvement areas, including, as examples, illness prevention, consumer health and safety. Similarly, records can be annotated with specific metrics. This information, coupled with administrative grant information, can be used to produce reports on how well particular grant programs are performing.
Benefits
Record categorizations and annotations facilitate rapid and easy retrieval of information locked in enterprise data bases.
There are two main techniques that agencies use to create reports in response to requests for information:
• Specific Categories – The easiest method is to use a specific category already in the system.
• Ad-hoc queries - If the specific grant category is not already in the system, ad-hoc queries that combine grant categories and/or text searches for keywords are used to find the appropriate grants.
Once categorized, the data is faultlessly and rapidly retrieved with simple menu selections executed by end users employing other Altum products, such as the Query Module™ and the Search Module™.
Flexibility: Centralized v. Local Categorizations
Typically, agencies require the ability to establish agency-wide officially agreed categorizations. Even in this circumstance, the need often remains for the individual offices within an agency to employ their own categorization. For instance, at the National Institutes of Health, the agency is required to report on the amount of funding and number of grants awarded for research on Alzheimer's. They collect and consolidate detailed information from the individual Institutes and Centers (ICs) on Alzheimer's grants. They allow, however, the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke to define Alzheimer's independently. This is necessary because science is rapidly evolving, and it may require an enormous institutional effort to develop category definitions that all constituents agree upon.
Altum’s Analysis Module™ supports the best of both worlds in which a central coding organization can be responsible for "official" grant categorization; while being flexible enough to allow individuals the ability to categorize grants for their own use.
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