Contract Insights

In the baseball game of data protection, mastering the rules and strategies is as critical as practicing the fundamentals at spring training. Enter the world of data processing agreements (DPAs) and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). We will learn about these agreements and regulations, as well as how contract management software helps ensure businesses don't just play but dominate in this crucial stadium.

The contract management process has evolved drastically over the years. Managing contracts with obsolete methods is sure to make your organization fall behind. Luckily, you can automate contract lifecycle management with a contract database within contract management software. Let’s explore how a contract management database can take your contract management or legal team into the future.

CobbleStone Software's latest version – CobbleStone Contract Insight® Enterprise 17.11.0 – has come, introducing next-level CLM features and enhancements for you to master to bring your contract management software platform to the next level!

There are many moving parts involved with a contract, and it can be easy for your organization and counterparties to get mixed up at some point in the process.  This is why a contract checklist is an essential part of the commencement of a contract.  Your organization can utilize a contract checklist as a contract roadmap.  Read this blog for an overview of a contract checklist – as well as what solutions your organization can leverage to navigate that contract checklist successfully.

Traditional contract data migration services can afford your organization tremendous headaches – to put it lightly.  Hidden expenses regarding aftermarket technology and labor costs, evolving storage requirements, questionable data security, poor data recovery measures, and low scalability involved with locally stored and manually implemented data migration can be detrimental.  Leave the tedium, risk, high costs, and wasted resources in the past in favor of web-enabled, self-serve data migration and export with contract management software.

Does your organization have a high volume of contracts of ranging complexity?  Do you need these contracts searched, have important contract data extracted, and be stored within an easily accessible contract data repository?  Don't leave your team overwhelmed with manual contract data extraction and legal discovery processes.  Instead, leverage intelligent contract data extraction with the help of powerful contract intelligence within a leading-edge contract management software system.

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.

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.