Fellowship Management Software

Create a memorable fellowship website, promote your fellows and alumni, and control the entire process, all
in one system.

TRUSTED BY THE INDUSTRY LEADERS

Application & Review Software to help you get better applicants, dazzle judges and grow your programs.
Designed for Awards, Abstracts, Scholarship, Grants and more..

FELLOWSHIP MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

Grow your programs with less stress

Create a memorable fellowship website, promote your fellows and alumni, and control the entire process, all in one system.

Fellowship Website

Wow applicants and raise the prestige of your fellowship, through an OpenWater website.

Form Builder

Collect large files, set conditional logic, accept letters of recommendation — all using our drag and drop form builder.

Multi-Round Review

Reviewers log in, see their assigned submissions and submit their scores right in the system. Easy.

Reporting

The data you need right at your finger tips.

Email Wizard

Everyone stays in the know with OpenWater’s email wizard.

Integrations Hub

Connect OpenWater to system for a fast, reliable, sign-in process and bi-directional sync.

With Traditional Awards Management Software

With OpenWater Application & Review Cloud

Multiple systems are inevitable

Most online award management solutions begin and end with entry collection. Tracking, judging and
logistics must be handled by hand, via email or on spreadsheets.

One system is all you need

With OpenWater Awards, all tasks – by entrants, judges, chairs and administrators – are handled in one
unified, fully integrated solution. Juggling is for the circus – not your awards program.

Look and feel is random

Many awards solutions force entrants to a seemingly unconnected site to upload their materials. This
confuses users – and even costs associations revenue when submissions are abandoned.

Branding is consistent

When you use OpenWater Awards, our team creates a custom-branded upload portal that matches your existing
website and visual identity. Users will know they’re in a place they can trust.

Information is scattershot

Who’s started an entry? Who’s completed one? Which judges are finished? Which haven’t started? Without
real-time reporting and analytics, it’s almost impossible to tell. And if you’re not informed, you can’t
make informed decisions.

You’re always in the know

OpenWater Awards’ advanced analytics capabilities eliminate confusion and simplify internal and external
communication. Key reminders are sent automatically, and it’s easy to tell the status of any action item

With OpenWater Application & Review Cloud

One system is all you need

With OpenWater Awards, all tasks – by entrants, judges, chairs and administrators – are handled in one
unified, fully integrated solution. Juggling is for the circus – not your awards program.

Branding is consistent

When you use OpenWater Awards, our team creates a custom-branded upload portal that matches your existing
website and visual identity. Users will know they’re in a place they can trust.

You’re always in the know

Frequently Asked Questions

Awards software helps organizations manage the
intake of applications, and facilitates the review of awards applications by judges. Robust awards
management software platforms integrate with CRM, Salesforce, or an AMS in order to pass back and forth
critical information about membership participation.

An awards management system is your organizations
approach to application intake and judging nominees. An awards management system can involve a set of awards
tools, and a set of communication protocols with judges, applicants and volunteers. The best awards managers
annually review their system for improvement and efficiencies.

Based on the feedback by our client base who have used other systems, we seem to excel in a few areas.

Integrations: From day 1 of our company we have prioritized integrations with other systems. Our robust API allows developers to do whatever they want. Out of the box we’ve integrated with all the major payment processors. We’ve also developed our own “Integrations Hub” that lets us connect with all the major CRMs (like Salesforce and Microsoft) and AMSs (iMIS, Fonteva, Nimble, YourMembership and MemberClicks to name a few). Single Sign On (SSO) and Bi-Directional Integrations all offered out-of-the-box for those CRMs that allow it.

Customer Support: We are averaging a 10 minute response time in our customer service department. We use the tool Intercom, which is a chat based system (similar to Teams/Slack/Text Message) so that our customers can have direct access to their dedicated team members. No more waiting 2 days for a response from clunky ticket based support systems. It’s no wonder we consistently rank at the top of G2 Crowd for best support in the industry.

Adaptability: Our customers are consistently surprised with how far they can push the limits of OpenWater to accommodate nuances in their workflows. Awards is only the beginning. Once people start using us for Awards, they routinely start adding in more workflows such as their Abstracts for their annual meeting.

Our reporting engine makes it super easy to slice and dice any type of data that is in the system. Export to Excel, CVS, PDF, Word or JSON with the click of a button. We also have a bulk download features that clients use to download all submissions into a nice tidy zipped folder structure that they can save to their computer.