Research Compliance Management Software

Q: What is research compliance management software?

It is software for managing the workflows, reviews, documents, approvals, and evidence that keep research activity compliant. For many teams, that includes protocol intake, ethics review, consent documentation, conflicts, training, monitoring, and audit preparation.

Q: Is Process Street an electronic research administration system?

Process Street is best used as the workflow execution layer for recurring research compliance work. If you need grant submission records, institution-wide eRA modules, or specialized protocol databases, a dedicated research administration system may still be the better source of record.

Q: How does Process Street help research compliance teams?

It gives every review, approval, evidence request, and monitoring task a clear owner and deadline. Teams can attach proof, route signoffs, trigger recurring checks, and keep an audit trail without chasing status across separate tools.

Q: Can Process Street support university research compliance?

Yes, when the need is repeatable compliance execution. NC State used Process Street for technology licensing and federal compliance workflows, showing how research teams can keep specialized work consistent, visible, and auditable.

Q: When should I choose a dedicated research platform instead?

Choose a dedicated research administration platform when your core need is institution-wide grant administration, protocol database ownership, or specialized regulatory submission records. Choose Process Street when the gap is recurring compliance work that people must complete correctly and prove later.

Research compliance management software keeps protocol reviews, evidence requests, approvals, recurring checks, and audit preparation moving through a governed workflow. Use Process Street when research compliance work needs owners, deadlines, proof, and review history, not another static tracker that only shows what is late after risk has already built up.

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Use case

Run research compliance as assigned work

Research teams often manage ethics reviews, IRB or IACUC steps, conflicts, consent documentation, training records, post approval monitoring, and sponsor evidence across email, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Process Street turns those repeatable obligations into workflows with assigned owners, approvals, due dates, document control, and a record of what happened. That makes it useful when the compliance problem is execution, follow-through, and proof rather than only research administration data storage. It also keeps recurring reviews from depending on one person remembering the next step.

How Process Street supports research compliance

Ops

Ops runs protocol intake, review checklists, amendment routing, evidence collection, and recurring monitoring as live workflows. Each step has an owner, deadline, status, and completion record.

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Docs

Docs keeps SOPs, review criteria, policy acknowledgements, and research compliance instructions governed in one place. Teams can connect the document to the workflow that proves it was followed.

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Cora

Cora helps teams draft workflows from existing procedures, spot missing steps, and keep compliance work improving as requirements change. Use it to reduce manual process maintenance.

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What to compare

Protocol workflow control

Route studies, amendments, renewals, and exception reviews through the same approved path every time, with visible ownership instead of inbox-based handoffs.

Evidence and approvals

Capture files, signoffs, comments, policy acknowledgements, and timestamps where the work happens, so reviewers do not have to reconstruct the record later.

Audit-ready history

Show who completed each research compliance step, what evidence was attached, when it was reviewed, and which follow-up task closed the loop.

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