Application & Review Software to help you get better applicants, dazzle judges and grow your programs. Designed for Awards, Abstracts, Scholarship, Grants and more..
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Robust abstracts software that can power your conference management. Abstract collection, peer review, session scheduling and mobile app integration -- all made easy in OpenWater.
All-in-one awards management platform designed to streamline and simplify your entire awards program. Forget manila folders. Ditch the spreadsheets. OpenWater Awards does it all.
Create the impact you want with streamlined grants applications, a user friendly reviewer portal, and powerful features for program administrators.
Our all-in-one scholarship software manages the entire multi-step, multi-review process smoothly, moving applicants to scholarship recipients.
Create a memorable fellowship website, promote your fellows and alumni, and control the entire process, all in one system.
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Organizations trust OpenWater to power their programs
Features purposely designed to make your life easier and remove friction from the review process.
Content management for your program that's flexible for marketers, powerful for developers, and gives a secure experience.
Collect large files, set conditional logic, accept letters of recommendation -- all using our drag and drop form builder.
OpenWater makes judging fun and easy. Reviewers log in, see their assigned submissions and submit their scores right in the system. Easy.
Everyone stays in the loop with our Email Wizard. Create mobile-optimized email campaigns that look great — all by yourself.
Make smarter, data-backed decisions with powerful custom reporting and built-in analytics.
Connect OpenWater to system for a fast, reliable, sign-in process and bi-directional sync.
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ASHA uses the dynamic OpenWater platform for its diverse awards programs, detailed grant and scholarship applications, smooth mentoring enrollment, easy course registration, valued volunteer applications and impactful leadership programs. The significant flexibility of the OpenWater platform's core functionality is truly crucial to efficiently and successfully manage these various types of important programs, each always presenting with highly unique and specific requirements for success.
The Awards and Prizes team at the Institution of Engineering and Technology operates several awards, prizes and scholarship schemes, all with different entry and reporting requirements. The platform's robust flexibility and functionality has led to many significant improvements and key efficiencies in how IET awards are run effectively. The continued professional support from the OpenWater team has been truly excellent and much appreciated by all.
OpenWater truly stands out as a company that treats you with a genuinely personal touch, a quality we find of immense great value. We have thoroughly enjoyed the strong, collaborative relationship we have carefully built with their team and have come to rely on them for the crucial, responsive support that we absolutely need to continue to successfully grow and expand our important program for the future. Their valued partnership is key to us; we appreciate their commitment.
Building applications is incredibly intuitive and straightforward, handling complex layers and if/then logic smoothly; judging and reporting are highly customizable and thorough. Despite no prior application-building experience or a technical background, I successfully built our application hassle-free. This was thanks to the program's user-friendliness and the quick, valuable help from customer support, making the entire process remarkably accessible and efficient for anyone.
We utilize OpenWater extensively, not solely for our diverse awards programs, but also as a solution for various grants, fellowships, and essentially anything that necessitates a formal application or structured judging process. The great advantage is having all this consolidated efficiently within one central system that integrates very smoothly with our existing association management system, significantly streamlining our operations and workflows for better productivity.
Our team effectively deals with over 80 different programs, reviewed by 80 different committees, each having 3-12 valuable volunteers. OpenWater's system makes it easy for us to collect crucial information that needs full review and enforce many unique and diverse applicant requirements. This year, OpenWater importantly allowed our team to seamlessly process over 1,200 applications, all of which were reviewed by around 320+ volunteers, a significant task for us.
OpenWater makes it incredibly easy for our applicants to smoothly submit their grant applications. Our Judges have found the program to be a very efficient and easy tool that conveniently lets them decide on all grant awards without having to reach out to our busy staff for additional technical support. OpenWater has truly been an invaluable gift to us as we steadfastly continue to support our deserving grant recipients and our hardworking judges with this excellent platform.
Thanks to OpenWater, our awards programs are simple to get going annually. It's great that we can replicate prior sites, easily adjust them with updated information, and launch for a new cycle. Their Customer Service especially is fantastic for assistance and resolving any problems encountered. A robust customer support foundation is crucial for awards programs, which frequently face strict deadlines and involve external judges unfamiliar with the platform, and OpenWater truly delivers on this essential aspect.
OpenWater has taken an integration first approach since the beginning. We integrate will all major CRMs and Association Software. Have a system we haven't integrated with yet? Let us know and we'll add it!
