ANN ARBOR -- Ann Arbor-based InfoReady Corp. announced new features last week to its In4Grants software for funding search, proposal collaboration and tracking.

The new features open up additional funding opportunities for federal contractors and fosters easy collaboration for researchers, proposal developers and project teams.

The new release adds the ability to search for federal contracts to the already available grant, foundation, and SBIR/STTR database. Enhanced navigation and filtering options speeds searching through thousands of opportunities available within In4Grants.

With the addition of federal contracts, users can find federal RFP, RFI or the specific type of grant funding opportunity for their needs much faster than going to multiple data sources with other search tools. Users can then collaborate on the funding proposal development within the In4Grants secure project workspace that tracks all their activity automatically.

In4Grants customers have used the product as a place for project teams and researchers to gather, collaborate and discuss their work prior to an opportunity becoming available. To further support this vital collaboration requirement, In4Grants now makes it simple for users to easily setup any type of project in the cloud, quickly connect peers and invite them for collaboration.

Said customer David Stone, associate vice president for research at Northern Illinois University: "We were in search of a way to support having a dialog about the project even before a funding opportunity is available. We also wanted a single place to put everything, making it easy for the project team to locate information, engage external partners, and have the entire process archived."

Added InfoReady CEO Bhushan Kulkarni: "This release is key to our commitment to support all types of collaboration including some of the unique requirements of researchers. We have worked closely with our customers and local research centers to understand today's challenges that relate to locating funding and building collaborative teams to go after that funding."

Thousands of researchers, federal contractors, proposal developers and grant administrators currently use In4Grants, the only product in the market that address the full pre-award requirements of identifying funding opportunities, setting up collaboration teams and managing proposal preparation development. Blending social media tools with contextual search and automated tracking gives users an easy-to-use set of tools in one product.

InfoReady products users can quickly find information, act and collaborate with peers using social media tools and track all their activity automatically in one seamless environment. Our inaugural product, In4Grants, gives fund-seeking organizations an easy way to manage the complex pre-award process discovery and proposal development process.

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