Trusted by industry leading organisations
Simplify, automate, accelerate
Simplify processes, automate common activities and seamlessly integrate with existing systems.
OmniStar takes care of all the behind-the-scenes complexity so you can concentrate on maximising outcomes.
Highly configurable purpose-built grant management system
Streamlines and automates ethics and governance
Powerful research management that automates and simplifies
Our story
A personalised solution
OmniStar is entirely configurable. Your solution can be adapted to suit your unique organisational objectives, and your changes are compatible and supported through upgrades.
Trusted by industry leading organisations
OmniStar has been built in consultation with industry over the last years and is used by Federal, state and local governments, universities, hospitals and philanthropic organisations.
National Health and Medical Research Council
The National Health and Medical Research Council selected OmniStar to power grants management across their entire portfolio.
Manage your grants, your way
No more juggling ill-fitting systems and untangling complex processes. OmniStar is made to fit you.
Grants processes
- End-to-end support - pre-award, award and post-award
- Open by invitation multi-stage grant rounds with start and end dates
- Flexible finance management including in-kind, cash and funds requested
- Role based security and audit/event log
- Integrated CRM
Contracts and variations
- Agreement document auto-generation, sharing & notification
- Online variation SmartForm
- Variation document auto-generation
- Contract management and digital approvals
Reviews and decisions
- Conflict of interest and non-disclosure agreements
- Individual and bulk reviews and assessments
- Digital approvals and "What if" scenarios
- Bulk email and letter merge for outcome notification
- Response tracking
User-defined workflows and forms
- Drag and drop workflow editor
- Intuitive SmartForm editor
- User-definable fields and lookups
- Pre-population and advanced functionality
Progress and real-time reporting
- Ad-hoc Dashboards and Reports
- Acquittal reports
- Online review and approval process
- Automated reminders
Security and integration
- GrantConnect integration
- FMIS integration
- REST APIs and Enterprise Reporting Connector
- Single Sign-on and MFA
The easiest way to report, analyse and comply
Seamlessly manage ethics and research governance. Increase your transparency with comprehensive, real-time reporting and analytics.
Ethics processes
- Human, Animal & Biosafety
- Site Specific Assessment
- Victorian Specific Module
- Amendments including tracked changes
- Low and Negligible Risk and High Risk
Decisions and approvals
- Approval certificate generation including approved document list
- Digital decisions (full committee and executive level) & out-of-session approvals
- Approved animal numbers
- Facility management
Reviews and meetings
- Chat-like review commentary and applicant feedback
- Pre-meeting reviews and Conflict of Interest
- Request for more information
- Committee management including role management
User-defined workflows and forms
- Drag and drop workflow editor
- Intuitive SmartForm editor
- User-definable fields and lookups
Progress and real-time reporting
- Ad-hoc Dashboards and Reports
- Annual and Final Progress Reports
- Adverse Events/Safety Reports
Security and integration
- ORCID integration
- HR integration
- Animal species integration
- Single Sign-on and MFA
Intelligent research management, streamlined
OmniStar Research is a centralised solution to manage the whole research life-cycle in one place. Reduce double-handling and get more out of your funding opportunities.
Research processes
- Proposal development and approval
- Pricing and costing
- Human, Animal & Biosafety applications
- Victorian Specific Module
- Amendments including tracked changes
- Low and Negligible Risk and High Risk applications
User-defined workflows and forms
- Drag and drop workflow editor
- Intuitive SmartForm editor
- User-definable fields and lookups
Reviews and meetings
- Pre-meeting reviews and Conflict of Interest
- Request for more information
- Committee management including role management
Post-award and real-time reporting
- Contract and variations
- Annual and Final Progress Reports
- Adverse Events/Safety Reports
- Ad-hoc Dashboards and Reports
Decisions and approvals
- Approval certificate generation including approved document list
- Digital decisions (full committee and executive level) & out-of-session approvals
- Approved animal numbers
- Facility management
Security and integration
- Australian Research Council and other funders
- ORCID integration
- HR integration
- Animal species integration
- Single Sign-on and MFA
The University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia selected OmniStar Research to implement a fully integrated, digital solution that was compatible with other university systems.
Testimonials
The level of ongoing customisation and support gives us peace of mind in our investment. We now have a one-stop solution: streamlined processes, great user experience and transparency.
Cindy Liew
Senior Executive
Sunway University
OmniStar had the ability to combine our three systems into one to make everything easier from an administration perspective but also from an applicant and reviewer perspective.
Samantha Oakes
Director, Research Investment
National Breast Cancer Foundation
We couldn't persist in a paper environment. We were looking for a solution that could cover the pre-award and post-award requirements, and we wanted a system that could do ethics as well.
Laila Simpson
Director of Research Operations
The University of Western Australia
It's very accessible to users and administrators with clear processes to follow. It's also flexible allowing you to build your own forms, which are straightforward, and for which you don't need to understand code.
Anna
Research Development Senior Coordinator
Cancer Council WA
The ability to customise the OOTB functionality of the system to align to our specific grant program processes and framework. Pre-award functionality provides for easy and efficient application submission.
Amanda
Senior Project Officer
Department of Resources
It has made our work so much more effective and efficient, especially as we adapt to a hybrid working model, post-Covid.
Michael
CEO
Soil CRC
Easy integration. Great user experience for grant applicants and for the grant management team. Fantastic support from the OmniStar team - very responsive and end to end complete solution.
Adam
Head of Foundation
Plenty of features to use to manage grants and grant processes.
John
Manager
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