Pure Award Management
Pure Award Management is software for research institutions coordinating funding applications and awards across the grant lifecycle.
What Pure Award Management is
Pure Award Management is software for research institutions coordinating funding applications and awards across the grant lifecycle. Research offices can find funding opportunities, create and submit applications, and follow their status and progress. The product also provides previously approved applications as reference material. Successful applications can become awards, with configurable post-award requirements such as contract management and ethics reviews. Teams can track project milestones, renewals, additional funding, timelines, and compliance requirements, then link outputs and outcomes to projects for reporting and impact pages on a Pure portal. Reporting tools cover funding trends, performance measures, and grant outcomes. Elsevier lists integrations with Funding Institutional, Infonetica, Agresso, institutional HR, finance and grant systems, and sources such as Scopus, Web of Science, and ORCID. Pure offers a REST API and standards-based data exchange. Elsevier describes it as cloud-hosted SaaS and says it is used by over 130 institutions worldwide. Customer data remains in the agreed geographic location, and customers retain ownership, control, and the ability to extract it. Pricing is available on request.
Good
- Covers applications through post-award management.
- Tracks timelines and compliance requirements.
- Links outputs and outcomes to projects.
- Offers a REST API and data exchange.
- Customer data remains under customer ownership and control.
Watch out
- Pricing is available on request.
- Designed for research institutions, not individual applicants.
Who it suits
It is designed for research institutions and their research offices managing funding applications, awards, compliance, and outcomes. It may suit teams that need reporting and connections to institutional or research systems.
Verdict
Pure Award Management brings application workflows, award administration, compliance, and reporting into a single research-institution offering. Organizations will need to contact Elsevier for pricing.
The facts
Each one read from Pure Award Management's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- Pure exposes a REST API and supports standards-based data exchange with adjacent platforms such as electronic lab notebooks, grant management systems and institutional repositories.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Audience and scale
- The product is designed for research institutions, and Elsevier says it is used by over 130 institutions worldwide.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Award administration
- Users can create awards from successful applications, administer funds, set project milestones, and configure post-award requirements including contract management and ethics reviews.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The product helps manage compliant applications and track project timelines and compliance requirements.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Data location and control
- Pure customer data resides in the geographical location agreed with the customer and documented in the contract, and customers retain ownership and control of their data and can extract it.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Funding opportunities
- The product helps institutions identify relevant funding opportunities and provides access to previously approved applications as reference materials.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- Elsevier describes Pure as a cloud-hosted SaaS product and says it hosts Pure on AWS globally and Aliyun in China.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Institutional systems
- Pure integrates with institutional HR, finance and grant management platforms, and external sources including Scopus, Web of Science and ORCID.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product page names Funding Institutional, Infonetica and Agresso as systems it integrates with.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The product is designed to support research institutions and their research offices.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Post-award management
- The product supports project delivery milestones, renewals, additional funding, outcome reporting, and linking research outputs to projects for showcasing impact.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Pricing
- The product page provides a contact form but does not state a price.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Pricing availability
- The product page directs interested organizations to contact Elsevier for a demonstration and does not state a price.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Pure Award Management automates and consolidates the research funding lifecycle for research institutions, from finding funding opportunities through managing applications, awards, contracts, outputs and outcomes.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- Flexible reporting tools track funding trends, performance metrics and grant outcomes.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Research impact
- Users can link research outputs, report outcomes and showcase impact on their Pure portal.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Scale
- Elsevier says Pure Award Management is trusted by over 130 institutions worldwide and scales across faculties, campuses and research disciplines.checked 2 Oct 2026
- Security
- Pure is ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27701 certified, with security measures including encryption, network protections and physical safeguards at hosting locations.checked 3 Oct 2026
- Support
- Pure customers have access to dedicated Customer Success Managers, subject matter experts, self-paced Pure Academy training and a global user community.checked 3 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Application workflows
- It supports creating, submitting and tracking applications, provides access to previously approved applications, and sends real-time status updates.checked 3 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1880checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam, Netherlandschecked 28 Sep 2026
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