Contract Insights

2021 has arrived, and with it comes new innovations to your contract management software processes.  Keeping this in mind, we have outlined six critical contract management tools that your organization should equip itself with to stay ahead of future-minded contract management best practices in 2021 and beyond.

Managing government contracts with disparate processes such as shared drives, email, disorganized documents, and disorderly spreadsheets can prove challenging and leave your organization vulnerable to undue risk.  Public contract managers implementing such disparate contract management methods can transform their processes and maximize their budget by fiscal year-end by investing in a robust contract management software system that can seamlessly evolve with their organizations’ needs.  City, state, and federal contract management professionals can streamline their processes with the help of an end-to-end government contract management software suite that centralizes government contract administration services from requests to renewals.  Read on to learn how leveraging a centralized government contract management system with integrated eSourcing and eProcurement features can empower government contract management professionals to successfully administrate the many moving parts of their contracting processes.

CobbleStone® Software's latest release – CobbleStone Contract Insight® Enterprise Version 17.9.0 – is here, providing visionary CLM features and feature enhancements to bring your contract management software suite even further into the future!

Managing vendors with manual and disparate processes such as spreadsheets, phone calls, emails, and paper-based filing systems can prove challenging.  Without a centralized electronic process, vendor management workflow bottlenecks can significantly decrease your organization’s profitability.  Fortunately, leading-edge vendor management software can help increase your vendor profitability by leveraging cost-saving vendor management best practices.  Read on to discover three vendor management best practices you can implement immediately to help increase your organization’s ROI.

Reviewing contract risk can be time-consuming, challenging, and stressful.  Manually assessing risk factors can cost an organization extra time and money while increasing the risk of inadvertent human oversights.  While you can do your best to carefully track risk factors, including negligent clause language, it can prove challenging when dealing with multiple stakeholders and pressing deadlines.  Read on to learn how three contract risk management tools proffered by contract management software can help protect your organization from the risks of poor contract management and, in some cases, your job.

2021 has already brought many enhancements and innovations to contract management automation - and contract management technology will not stop enhancing contract management processes any time soon.  Your organization could be missing out on user-friendly and future-minded contract management system tools.  As such, here is a list of four must-have contract management software features for a streamlined, simplified, cost-effective, and configurable process for increased ROI.

This blog was updated on April 15, 2021.

VISDOM® AI is CobbleStone Software's proprietary, AI based contract management engine with machine learning.  VISDOM can simplify contract administration for a wide variety of industry professionals by unifying people and processes thanks to a seamless integration between AI and contracts.  Learn the 4 main VISDOM features that can help contract management software system users maximize CobbleStone Software's acclaimed source-to-contract management software suite - Contract Insight® - in an evermore future-minded legal technology landscape.

Robust contract data management, contract analytics, and contract data security provide the necessary insights and protection for organizations to cut contract lifecycle times with enhanced control, governance, security, and visibility.  Organizations can transform contracts into powerful, data-driven sources of business intelligence that support contract strategy, contract management KPIs, and goals with the help of leading contract management software.  Here’s how.