MŌDERAS

November 2011, MŌDERAS selected to to provide an open souce Electronic Research Administration solution for the University of Toledo!

August 2011, MŌDERAS reaches the final round in The University of Toledo's RFP for an Electronic Research Administration application.  Moderas provided a proposal for a Kuali Coeus solution and reached the final round of two with InfoEd. 

June 2011, MŌDERAS reaches an agreement with Skidmore college in upstate New York to implement Kuali Coeus pre and post award functionality.

May 2011, MŌDERAS reaches the final round in Western Kentucky Universities RFP for an Electronic Research Administration application.  Moderas provided a proposal for a Kuali Coeus solution at WKU and reached the final round again with the same two vendors, Cayuse and Key solutions.

January 2011, MŌDERAS reaches the final round in Oregon State Universities RFP for an Electronic Research Administration application.  Moderas provided a proposal for a Kuali Coeus solution at OSU and reached the final round with Cayuse and Key solutions.

November 2011, MŌDERAS releases the KWEST funding module to production.  Kwest is a powerful search tool that can't be beat for ease of use and flexibility.  Kwest can be integrated with Kuali Coeus so that search results can be populated directly into a proposal in KC.

August 21th 2010, MŌDERAS developes the first ever "Driver's Manual" for Kuali Coues. In an effort to deliver the same artifacts as the Kuali Financial System staff from Moderas created a Drivers Manual for adopters and evaluators of Kuali Coeus.  The Drivers Manual was provided to the Kuali Foundation for distribution. 

July 25th-27th 2010, MŌDERAS hosts KC2010 the first ever Kuali Coeus User Conference.  We feel the conference was a great success and look forward to holding it again next year!  Saratoga was a fantastic host location and the accomodations were wonderful.  The sessions were well received and we thank WinMill for participating and presenting at the conference.

July 19th - 21st 2010, Staff from MŌDERAS volunteer at PRA 4.  In addition to volunterring and participating in various sessions to improve our understanding of our clients needs MŌDERAS participated in a session on eRA in PUIs.  We learned a great deal about the needs of smaller schools and PUIs at this session and hope to find ways to make eRA affordable for institutions that have funding limitations.

June 9th 2010, MŌDERAS begins providing webinars on Kuali Coeus and general electronic research administration needs. Check here for more times and topics of upcoming webinars.

June 2nd 2010, MŌDERAS is invited to participate in another unsolicited request for proposal. Boston University is looking for assistance with their planned KC implementation. 

May 14th 2010, MŌDERAS is invited to participate in an unsolicited request for proposal for the Desert Research Institute in Nevada.  The DRI is looking for a research administration solution and we're proposing KC with some enhancements to meet their needs.  "We're competing with the estabished vendors on this opportunity so this will be a great chance to see if institutions are ready for open source solutions and how KC stacks up"  -Chris Thompson.

April 25th 2010, MŌDERAS will be participating in the NCURA Region II meeting in Princeton NJ. Stop by and say hello, share your unique story, and let us tell you a little about us.

April 15th 2010, Kelly Welsh from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the first recipient of the MŌDERAS Region II travel award. We were pleased to be able to provide Kelly with the opportunity to network with her peers and attend what she referred to as very valuable sessions that spoke to her needs as the Senior Administrative Manager of the Department of Epidemiology.

April 1st 2010, MŌDERAS becomes a Kauli Commercial Affiliate. Putting it's money where it's mouth is MŌDERAS stepped up to the plate and joined the ranks of other Commercial Affiliates like IBM and Sun. The financial commitment cements our commitment to grow the Kuali Coeus product

February 3rd 2010, Norman Zeyak joins MŌDERAS in the role of Business Manager. Norm applies his background as an engineer and manager with a Fortune 500 company with his Masters in Business Administration degree to boil problems down to their most basic and common elements. Given complex issues, Norm weaves together a myriad of smaller individual solutions to derive a complex, cohesive, and often pitch perfect resolution to the challenges presented. We feel lucky to have Norm driving the operations at MŌDERAS. .

January 14th 2010, MŌDERAS announces plans for a July 2010 conference focused on the Kuali Coeus product in Saratoga New York. "Anticipating a flood of interest in this exciting new product we feel there's a real need for a conference for institutions seeking to implement an open source research administration solution". If your institution is interested in attending please Click Here to take a quick survey.

January 1st 2010, MŌDERAS takes over operations of the Capital District Java Developers Network. After ten years the managers of the CDJDN were seeking someone to step in and take over operations of the local Java Users Group. Moderas, spear headed by Dan Patsey our Development Manager, with the help of Jeffrey Cutler our Principal Software Engineer, have stepped in to take on this responsibility. We're proud of the work that our team is doing and are grateful we can return something back to the community in which we work.

Dec 1st 2009, MŌDERAS announces its intention to extend Kuali Coeus functionality through customization and the creation of add-on products, overlays, and application integrations. "We're very excited about this new emphasis on supporting and integrating with Kuali Coeus" stated MŌDERAS President Chris Thompson.

July 1st 2009, MŌDERAS to Support InfoEd™ Products Beginning in April, 2009. InfoEd is a market leader in the Electronic Research Administration and it will be our pleasure to support Institutions with InfoEd implementations, maintenance, and support. Like our Kuali support plan Moderas will be providing a Support Site, Chat Help, Email, and Phone Support as well as FAQs, a Knowledge base, and Blogs with RSS and Atom feeds for self service.

February 12th 2009, MŌDERAS Hosts Blog for Research Administrators. Noting a lack of a vehicle for Research Administrators to communicate without the inherent limitations vendors and institutions place on their users. Moderas has taken it on themselves to provide access to a free blog the allow ideas to flow across these channels. We are also encouraging experts from the field to volunteer to host specific blog spots on this site, click this Link to view the Blog. We look forward to providing continued support to those in the Research Administration field and we hope you will find this useful.

November 13th 2008, MŌDERAS to Support Kuali Products. The Kuali Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for sustaining and evolving administrative software that meets the needs of all Carnegie Class institutions. Its members are colleges, universities, commercial firms and interested organizations that share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for their software requirements. The goal of Kuali is to bring the proven functionality of legacy applications to the ease and universality of online services.

Moderas will be providing a Support Site, Chat Help, Email, and Phone Support as well as FAQs, a Knowledge base, and Blogs with RSS and Atom feeds for self service.

July 21st 2008, MŌDERAS to Partner with JasperSoft. JasperSoft provides an industry leading open source Business Intelligence product. Moderas integrates this amazing tool with your eRA data to put powerful information at your fingertips.