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SmartSimple is proud to announce that we are now a Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 compliant organization.  SOC 2 is the most recognized and relevant standard for cloud security in the world, and it’s a reflection of our dedication to maintaining the highest level of security standards for our clients. “SOC 2 is the standard many organizations hold their vendors to. It shows we’re on the leading edge of governance practices,” says Cameron McLean, President of SmartSimple. “We’re also currently the only Software as a Service (SaaS) provider in the grants and research management space that has achieved this level of certification.” SOC 2 builds on top of our compliance frameworks and concentrates on non-financial reporting controls as they relate to the security, availability, and processing integrity of the SmartSimple system. These reporting controls are commonly known in the industry as the  Trust Service Principles , and outlines the standards needed to qualify f...

Our April upgrade, focuses on improving communications. New features like Field Annotation and the Privacy Policy Hyperlink, continue to add transparency and engagement tools to improve the user experience. Field Annotation With Field Annotation, you can create notes on any application field and make edits to these fields while keeping the rest of the application locked. This offers you an additional communications vehicle for both internal and external contacts. Field Revision Annotation works much like the current Notes feature but targeted towards individual fields. For example, let’s say one of your grants administrators is reviewing an application and notices that a particular field needs to be revised by the applicant. With Field  Annotation, the administrator can highlight this field with an annotation and send a comment to the applicant on what revision to make. The applicant will be advised that there is a note for them and provide them with the opportunity to revis...