Case Study: Genome Alberta achieves streamlined, auditable grant impact reporting with SmartSimple Cloud

How Genome Alberta Enhanced Their Research Grant Reporting To Maximize Their Funding Impact

Genome Alberta, a nonprofit research corporation that funds and manages genomics research, struggled with scattered impact reporting held in Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, and PDFs, which made it difficult to pull project outputs and assess funding impact. To gain transparency and accommodate their nuanced funding and disbursement structures, they chose SmartSimple Cloud (SmartSimple Cloud for Research Grants Management) as a flexible, auditable platform.

SmartSimple Cloud delivered an all‑in‑one configurable system—streamlining application intake, project tracking, MS Word merge reporting, ad‑hoc ROI dashboards, and real‑time reports—so Genome Alberta can create granular, auditable reports for stakeholders and get a current view of records. The solution scaled with their portfolio (95 projects total, 36 open, 13 new) and helped reduce administrative time while improving visibility into funding impact; Genome Alberta now manages and reports on its >$241M in genomics research investments using SmartSimple Cloud.

Genome Alberta

Ryan Mercer

Research Program Manager