Contract Insights

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.

If you work within the IT industry, you may find that the management and oversight of a high volume of IT contracts of ranging complexity can require many moving parts.  If your organization is taking on IT contract management with manual contract management methods - such as those involving many filing cabinets, decentralized spreadsheets, and scattered emails - your team runs the risk of facing wasted time, squandered revenue, costly mistakes, and missed opportunities (among other harmful consequences).  Leave obsolete and damaging IT contract management methods in the past; tackle the following three IT contract management best practices with centralized and user-friendly contract management software.

Managing and overseeing contract risk factors can be difficult, stressful, and time-consuming.  Manual contract risk assessment can cost organizations money and time and lead to costly and potentially disastrous instances of contract mismanagement.  Organizations do their best to diligently track contract risk factors, including potentially negligent clause language.  However, contract risk management can prove overwhelming when dealing with multiple deadlines and stakeholders.  But all is not lost; there is a solution: contract management software.  Read on to learn how to use a contract management risk and opportunity assessment tool to decrease risk and increase your bottom line.

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.

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.

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.

Choosing a contract lifecycle management (CLM) software provider can be challenging, especially if you’ve never worked with CLM software and do not have anything to compare it to.  Fortunately, industry-leading contract management software analysts, including those from Forrester Research Inc., can communicate and showcase their findings - offering you expert advice.  Forrester recognizes CobbleStone® Software as a Leader in their report titled, “The Forrester Wave^TM: Contract Lifecycle Management For All Contracts, Q1 2021.”  CobbleStone Contract Insight® received a ranking among the top three CLM software providers in the Current Offering category within Forrester’s evaluation.  Read on to learn why CobbleStone was named a leader, according to Forrester’s expert analysts.