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Guest Blogger Series - Alison Wellman Smith from HUIT: OBI and GMAS – A Match Made in Reporting Heaven

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Thank you to the Research Administration Services team for asking me to be a guest blogger! I hope I’ll be able to provide you with a bit more information about how the new reporting tool, Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) can supplement all the great...

GMAS Unavailable Starting at 6PM EST on Wednesday, July 2

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GMAS will be temporarily unavailable starting at 6PM EST on July 2, 2025 for a release. It is expected that GMAS will be available again no later than 8PM EST. This release includes the addition of a new segment status that can be set by members of the...

GMAS unavailable at 9:00PM ET today, May 6, 2025 for 30 minutes

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GMAS will be unavailable this evening, May 6, 2025 starting at 9:00 PM ET for about 30 minutes to add the account download link back to the account list screen. The link was inadvertently removed in the latest release. If you have any questions or...

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Do You Need Further Assistance? For general system questions, contact the GMAS Help Desk contactgmas@harvard.edu. For GMAS access, individuals must request access from their school/unit Authorized Requestor (AR). ARs will submit the request for access to...

GMAS unavailable today starting at 5:45 PM ET in support of OAIR updates

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GMAS will be unavailable starting at 5:45 PM ET today, May 22. This outage is in support of the OAIR transition to research-initiated certifications to include federal sponsored research in addition to PHS+ sponsored research. For information about the...

GMAS unavailable starting at 6PM ET June 12, 2025

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GMAS will be temporarily unavailable starting at 6PM ET on June 12, 2025 for a release. The outage is expected to be about an hour. This release is focused on increasing the ability to set project labels throughout parts of the application beyond the...

Guest Blogger Series - Alison Wellman Smith from HUIT: OBI and Sponsored Budgets

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Given the wonderful new process to upload sponsored budget to the General Ledger in GMAS, I wanted to take a second to talk about how OBI works with the GL Sponsored Budgets. GL Sponsored Budgets can be found in a few different OBI dashboards: Sponsored...

Ecrt Connections with other Harvard University Systems

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Ecrt data is populated through automated feeds from other Harvard University systems. These systems, and the data provided by those systems are as follows: GMAS PI Sponsor Award information, including Accounts Department information PeopleSoft HUID Name...

What is the Difference Between Task Logic and Year Logic?

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Subactivity values within an award are typically structured either by task logic or by year logic. This is determined depending on the sponsor’s terms and conditions in regards to annual reporting and/or the allowability of automatic carry-forward of...

An Introduction to the FSS Service Catalog

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About Financial Systems Solutions FSS is a department in Financial Administration that supports users of Central Financial Administrative Applications. Services are prepared and delivered during FSS hours of operation: Monday through Friday from 9:00am to...

GMAS Release 1_31

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Global The additional PIN log in during the electronic signature process has been removed. System-to-system (S2S) Added support for the PHS Supplemental Form v1.2 required for NIH fellowship applications for Grants.gov via S2S proposal submission...

GMAS Release 1_37

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Comments New comments feature which allows users to make distinct comments that are recorded with user's name and a timestamp has been added to the following areas: Approvals Subagreement Amendments Non-Financial Reports Receivables Accounts The new...