Research Information System My employer is considering implementing Atira PURE to help manage grant applications and grant funding at the university level.
Seems like it might have some benefits... but could also add a costly and unnecessary layer of overhead. 

Any experience with this or the equivalent?
We use pure at our university to register publications. Maybe we also use it for other purposes, but I have only been affected by the publication part.

The registration of publications is a necessity, because the university uses this information to distribute money to different research groups (e.g. each year there is a bonus based on the number of published peer-reviewed articles in a recognised journal.

I've occasionally been assigned the task for my group to make sure all our articles were "registered in pure", and I can say that it works reasonably well. The interface is not superb, and I wouldn't like to work with it all day, but it gets the job done. I don't know anything about the alternatives.

It does also generate a fancy and completely useless person graph.