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Enterprise Grants Management

Mandates from North American, Western Europe and Australian governments have spawned a grant program management automation trend now recognized as Enterprise Grants Management (EGM) solutions. EGM solutions are based on the program delivery process that supports the electronic submission, processing, assessment, award, post award and audit of grant projects and programs.

EGM is a broad term that covers the concepts, methodology and the technology used by granting agencies to automate their grants management programs from end-to-end. Government agencies and departments implement EGM solutions to improve productivity and efficiency, reduce duplication of effort and gain control and accountability over their major spending initiatives.

Background

Grants account for a significant component of government program spending often representing the primary vehicle for allocating and investing government funding to designated priorities. Non automated grants management solutions are typically labor intensive, and ineffective, utilizing hastily developed and disparate databases, tracking and reporting systems that frequently incorporate paper-based applications and project monitoring approaches. Existing or new enterprise financial management systems have limited operational information and support for the granting process. The automation of grants management processes has been coined as e.Grants Grants Management Systems (GMS) however Grantium Inc. developed the concept, methodology and software solution for the automation of multi-complex grant programs and dubbed it as Enterprise Grants Management (EGM) in early 2000.

Components of EGM solutions

There are three major components of every EGM solution: Front Office – automation of the grantee (applicant) process Program Office – automation of all of the program staff processes Back Office - automation and connectivity to third party applications and systems

EGM Front Office: A public-facing component of the end-to-end enterprise grants management system providing the facility to publish programs, accept applicant submissions, and publish award notifications. Applicants have the facility to create a profile, complete their applications online and communicate with program staff regarding their submission.

EGM Program Office - Supports the processes that make up the grant program delivery life cycle. This includes assessment processes, project and program management, award, claims processing, post-award, audit and the tracking of risk and performance

EGM Back Office - Provides connectivity with third-party databases, applications and systems. This may include financial systems, document management systems, content management systems and government wide initiatives such as the U.S. grants.gov.

Focus and Objective of EGM

Several COTS and custom build EGM software solutions are available in the marketplace. However, EGM is not just a technology but rather a best-practices approach to the automation and deployment of grants management projects and programs. This includes practices and procedures, processes, methodology, reporting, compliance and information management. In order to meet the requirements of EGM - a solution must consider every granting agency and department’s unique program requirements and business rules.

Speedy deletion of Enterprise Grants Management
I contest the removal of this article. I have reviewed other very similar article in wikipedia that have not been removed. For example,

Article on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Article on Curam Software

Please validate for me why the above article are considered to be valid while Enterprise Grants Management is not?

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