Insight
Insight is a cloud-based platform for research administration, compliance, and innovation management at universities, hospitals, and research institutions.
What Insight is
Insight is a cloud-based platform for research administration, compliance, and innovation management at universities, hospitals, and research institutions. It supports work across the research lifecycle, from pre-award through post-award, compliance, financial administration, and technology transfer. Its 14 integrated modules can be used separately, in groups, or as an enterprise platform. Workflows include electronic records, role-based approvals, status histories, configurable processes, reporting, and dashboards that show projects, budgets, timelines, and compliance metrics. The platform connects with systems including Epic, OnCore, Workday, PeopleSoft, Okta, MicroStrategy, and Grants.gov, as well as SFTP/API. Insight describes its Azure cloud platform as compliant with HIPAA and other certifications, with role-based access. Users access it through a browser without local installation. The company reports approximately 40,000 users and more than 2.5 million annual logins. Implementation, integration, training, migration, and ongoing support services are offered. Pricing is not published; prospective organizations can request a demonstration and ask about pricing and platform fit.
Good
- Covers work from pre-award through post-award.
- 14 modules can be used individually or together.
- Dashboards track projects, budgets, timelines, and compliance metrics.
- Browser access requires no local installation.
- Includes implementation, integration, training, and ongoing support.
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request, not published.
- Designed for institutional research administration.
Who it suits
Insight is intended for universities, hospitals, and research institutions managing research operations. Its roles include research leadership, administrators, compliance teams, finance, researchers, and research IT.
Verdict
Insight brings research administration, compliance, and innovation workflows into a configurable cloud platform. Organizations need to request a demonstration for pricing and information on fit.
The facts
Each one read from Insight's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- Insight identifies universities, hospitals, and research institutions as customers for its configurable research administration system.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Dashboards
- Built-in dashboards and reporting provide visibility into projects, budgets, timelines, and compliance metrics.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Data exchange
- The application framework supports API-based data exchange and connections to on-premises solutions.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Hosting and access
- Insight describes a Microsoft Azure cloud platform and a browser-accessed single-page application that requires no local installation for users.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Implementation and support
- Insight describes implementation, integration, training, and ongoing support services, including data migration and go-live assistance.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The platform lists connections including Epic, OnCore, Workday, PeopleSoft, MicroStrategy, Grants.gov, and Okta, as well as SFTP/API.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- Insight is designed for universities, hospitals, and research institutions, serving research leadership, administrators, compliance teams, finance, researchers, and research IT.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Modules
- The platform has 14 integrated modules that can be implemented individually, in groups, or as an end-to-end platform.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Pricing
- The site invites prospective customers to request a demo and does not state a price on the pages reviewed.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Product
- Insight describes itself as a cloud-based research administration, compliance, and innovation management platform.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Insight is a cloud-based platform for research administration, compliance, and innovation management.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Research lifecycle
- Insight covers research workflows from proposal development and agreements through compliance, financial tracking, and technology transfer.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Research Support Services
- Its Research Support Services team offers grant lifecycle assistance, including proposal preparation, financial reconciliation, agreement negotiations, and staffing.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Roles served
- The product is presented for research leadership, research administration, compliance, innovation and commercialization, researchers and study teams, research finance, and research IT.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Sales and pricing
- The contact page invites organizations to request a demonstration and ask about capabilities, implementation, services, integrations, or platform fit.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Scale
- The site reports approximately 40,000 users and 2.5 million or more annual logins.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security
- Insight describes its Azure cloud platform as compliant with HIPAA and other certifications.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security and compliance
- The framework page says the Azure platform is compliant with HIPAA and other certifications and describes role-based access as part of enterprise delivery.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Support
- Insight says it works with professional services firms and systems integrators for implementation, integration, training, and ongoing support.checked 29 Sep 2026
- Workflow features
- The platform value page lists electronic records, role-based approvals, traceable status history, configurable workflows, reporting, and dashboards.checked 29 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform architecture
- The platform overview describes application services for workflows, forms, rules, and security; integration services for APIs, jobs, and data exchange; and a data foundation for databases, warehouses, and documents.checked 29 Sep 2026
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