Contract Insights

Read this blog for a rapid, high-level, general overview of CobbleStone Software's contract management software suite - Contract Insight®, its purpose, and some of its key features.

While safety measures posed by in-person gathering restrictions moved CobbleStone’s User Conference completely virtual, it proved highly successful as the CobbleStone team received high engagement from its many attendees on January 20th and 21st, 2021.  Considering how attendees at traditional in-person events may need to choose between breakout sessions, CobbleStone’s 2021 Virtual User Conference allows for CobbleStone user attendees to view all its contents for up to 90 days post-event.  While CobbleStone’s 2021 Virtual User Conference engaged attendees live, the conference’s content on-demand post-event streaming feature allows registrants to view content at their own leisure - including those users who registered for – but could not attend - the conference.  Read on to learn about key highlights from CobbleStone’s 2021 Virtual User Conference.

CobbleStone Software is proud to announce that we have finished 2020 with record-breaking growth.  From expanding our client base to bringing new innovations to the forefront of contract management software and more, here are some noteworthy CobbleStone Software achievements from 2020.

Proper CLM software with built-in employee policy management tools can streamline mass acknowledgments initiated by human resources professionals for greater organization-wide awareness of crucial information.  Learn how your organization’s HR personnel can efficiently send out mass acknowledgments and help employees stay aware of pertinent information with CobbleStone Software’s celebrated contract management software solution.  Read this helpful blog – written by CobbleStone Software’s very own HR Administrator, Elicia Neumann.

As we step into 2021, CobbleStone Software’s Executive VP – Mark Nastasi – reexamines contract management software technology trends in the wake of the many challenges of 2020.  He provides expert insight into how organizations can move forward into more future-minded, automated, and user-friendly contract management in 2021 and beyond.  Read his considerations and suggestions below.

If your organization is planning on leveraging contract management software, it is crucial that your team is aware of how to oversee user permissions effectively.  The terms of many contracts necessitate user permissions parameters to be put in place regarding access to contract documents, files, field data, reports, and more.  Manually managing user permissions with methods involving spreadsheets or unsecured folders, access that must be approved or restricted via disparate emails or other decentralized communication, or the nearly impossible task of managing different levels and stages of access as the contract lifecycle ensues can leave your organization at legal and regulatory risk.  Learn how to mitigate such risk factors and more with cutting-edge contract lifecycle management software.

Contract writing - also known as contract authoring - is a critical stage of the contract lifecycle.  The contract writing process involves contract parties putting into written copy the terms of a contract.  One extremely important facet of contract writing is  contract clause management.  Insufficient contract authoring procedures as they pertain to contract clause management often rely upon disorganized tracking of versions, a lack of unified contracts and subcontracts, and - unfortunately - scattered clauses.  Such processes can leave your organization with contracts that are missing clauses, an overlooked mass of key dates and milestones, and unified contract lifecycle management.

In the wake of unpredictable circumstances such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, your organization is more than likely allowing employees to work remotely.  No matter which relevant industry you are working in, you must be supported with a sufficient system in place for contract management, sourcing, and procurement operations.  To that end, we've assembled a list of five tips for maintaining remote contract management software process efficacy during the COVID crisis.