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Products & Services
NTM Products
Protocol Management
Used by the Research Community, Veterinary Staff, Committee Members, IACUC, IBC and Training Coordinators to enable the complete web-based workflow automation of the IACUC business processes increasing staff efficiency and compliance.
- Access protocol data from anywhere in the world
- Author new protocol applications, annual reviews, continuation reviews, and amendments
- Perform designated and/or full committee review and recommendations
- Write agenda and meeting minutes
- Approve protocols
- Query AAALAC, USDA, and other protocol data on demand
- Link to any content on the web or intranet
- Attach documents created in other applications
- Interface with HR, IBC and Grants & Contracts
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Personnel Training & Occupational Health
Used by the Research Community, Committee Members, Training Coordinator, IBC and IACUC Coordinator to enable the full online workflow automation of personnel training and occupational health.
- Track IACUC, Occupational Health and Animal Facility staff training requirements and records
- Set up one time or recurring events such as courses and seminars
- Associate events with one or more selections of species, roles, procedures, hazardous agents, euthanasia methods and drugs
- Send alerts/reminders and email notifications for required event attendance
- Compare IACUC training events to Researcher staff records to establish training requirements during protocol authoring
- Run on demand queries of personnel training records and events
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Animal Procurement
Used by the Research Community, Animal Buyer, Facility Supervisor and Business Office to enable the complete web-based workflow automation of animal procurement processes increasing staff efficiency and protocol/account compliance.
- Implement centralized or decentralized animal ordering and receiving capability
- Request, place and receive new and standing orders from multiple sources
- Manage In-house breeding requests
- Validate animal numbers against approved protocols
- Assign system generated or manual animal id’s
- Note animal statistics such as age, weight, DOB, etc.
- Print cage cards on any media or printer
- Reconcile vendor invoices
- Interface with Grants & Contracts to manage charge accounts and with Campus Accounting to request/approve vendor payments
- Run on demand queries of animal orders, receipts, delivery schedules, vendor reconciliations and USDA information
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Animal Census
Used by the Research Community, Animal Care Staff, Facility Supervisor, Census Coordinator and Business Office to enable the complete web-based and desktop workflow of census management to increase accuracy of inventory reporting and per diem revenue.
- Implement centralized or decentralized bar-coded census
- Collect data by way of web forms and bar-code scanners
- Automate and verify animal transfers between protocols, per diems, accounts, USDA pain categories, and rooms
- Perform daily activities including activation/deactivation, weaning animals, cage relocations, and cage splits
- Track space availability
- Reconcile bar-code inventory via a flexible wizard
- Calculate per diem revenue from reconciled inventory
- Create debit/credit adjustments for incorrect per diem charges
- Improve accuracy of per diem charges
- Run on demand queries of census activities and cage locations
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Services
Used by the Research Community, Veterinary, Facility, and Business Office Staff to enable the complete web-based workflow of Services management.
- Define and track service groups or service packages by category such as experimental, Husbandry, Veterinary or Administrative
- Define and track supply groups
- Identify and calculate charges for billable items
- Run on demand queries for current and historical service and supply requests/charges
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Invoicing
Desktop and web-based applications used by the Researchers and the Business Office Staff to manage the period close and generate invoices for animal procurement, per diem and service charges incurred and reconciled within an accounting period.
- Collect and compute charges for animal purchases, per diems and services without interrupting ordinary eSirius operations
- Choose from multiple invoice layouts
- Eliminate paper cost and send electronic monthly statements to Researchers and their Business Managers
- Configure to transfer period close data to institutional financial system
- Run on demand queries of current and historical invoices
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eSirius Expert
A powerful desktop application management tool used by the System and/or Application Administrator to allow total control over modifications anywhere within the eSirius Enterprise environment. Total Flexibility That You Control!
- Eliminate on going cost typically required for customizations and/or changes in business requirements
- Administer and deploy instantaneously changes to workflow, documents, language, forms, reports, emails, business rules, etc.
- Configure and customize while maintaining 100% integrity of source code
- Control security login and roles
- Validate and track changes in the application
- Interface with existing enterprise systems to eliminate redundancy of and ensure accuracy of data entry
NTM Services
For over 12 years, NTM has been designing, developing, delivering and supporting IACUC and ARF solutions. We utilize these many years of industry experience in providing comprehensive high quality services to assure the achievement of business goals and customer satisfaction at every stage of your IACUC/ARF system lifecycle.
Turnkey Software Implementation Services
Your project team has the option of utilizing NTM’s extensive experience to assist you in further reducing the time and cost of implementation. Starting with the rich out of box features of eSirius, NTM helps to design, develop and implement applications that meet all your specific business needs.
Already industry-rich OOB applications together with minimal changes to suit your business specific requirements promote further reduction of time and cost necessary to implement a turn key solution inclusive of all your data, business rules and work flow.
Business Assessment: NTM Business Specialists are industry experts working with your team to define all business requirements including SOP’s, forms, workflow, data conversion, interfaces etc.
Application Engineering: Based on the Business Assessment, NTM’s engineers configure the software, develop interfaces to any external systems and perform all necessary data migrations.
System Installation: Following the completion of Application Engineering, the configured product is installed on site. NTM provides continual support throughout the testing process.
Training: NTM’s expert training specialists provide on site project team training on the configured product.
Technical Support
NTM offers unlimited technical support via phone, e-mail, and onsite visits.
Custom Applications
The eSirius development technology allows NTM to cost effectively produce custom solutions for any products not currently in the catalog.