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Medical Research University Eliminates Backlogs and Delays of Funding Grants with Teamworks BPM

Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 6, 2009 -- Lombardi, a leader in business process management (BPM) software, announced that the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has implemented its award-winning Teamworks® BPM software suite in support of the company's post award financial grants allocation processes.

"The financial grants process is the life-blood of our research business - Teamworks helps us manage it faster, gives us more visibility and lets us be more efficient than before," said Stewart Mixon, Chief Operations Officer at Medical University of South Carolina. "I wish we had done this years ago. The results that we are achieving have been a huge win for us."

MUSC is the oldest medical school in the Southeast, with 1,200 faculty members teaching more than 3,000 students and residents annually. MUSC depends upon financial grants as a primary means of funding its medical research. The university manages the post award grants allocation process where up to 3,000 requests for grant fund distribution changes are made every quarter. Previously, this process was entirely manual; the same information was keyed into different front-end and back-end systems, resulting in significant backlogs and delays, as well as many errors and rework efforts. Due to error rates and other contributing factors, there were more than twice as many forms submitted in the manual process than are processed using the Lombardi Teamworks-based process today.

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