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- Contract Lifecycle Management - Click-Through Demo (msi)
- This is a portable, interactive demo that closely simulates the UI and functionality of an actual solution. Installs to your Start menu and includes a presenter script. Scenario Summary: Because of increased volume, complexity, and governmental compliance requirements, enterprises should streamline management of contractual agreements through the entire lifecycle. ...
- Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management, Compliance
- Software downloads 2007-10-05
- Contract Life-Cycle Management Attracts New Entrants
- CIOs and their business partners are increasingly looking for Contract Life-cycle Management CLM solutions for all of their businesses' contracts, even if they deploy them in stages for buy-side contracts first and later for sell-side contracts. The result? A fast-growing (21% CAGR from 2003 to 2008), fragmented (with at least...
- Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management, Oracle Corp., Vendor
- White papers 2007-08-10
- Solution Provider Gains Valuable Exposure Through Solution Showcase
- C-Lutions provides public and private organizations with Contract Lifecycle Management CLM solutions to streamline, automate, and better manage their buy-and-sell-side contract processes. C-Lutions had recently been looking for a way to better educate its customers on how Microsoft technology can solve business problems in a cost-effective manner. In August 2005,...
- Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Corp., C-Lutions, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
- Maker of Contract Lifecycle Software Poised to Help Clients Slash Sales Cycle
- Using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM business application platform, a small team of programmers at Upside Software is developing the latest version of the company's contract lifecycle management software - UpsideContract. By working with the Microsoft Dynamics CRM application development platform now, Upside Software expects to be first to market with...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Contract Lifecycle Management, Microsoft Corp., Sales Cycle, Upside Software, Sales Tools, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- VMWare: Time to Pay the Open Source Piper
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that yesterday was a very bad day for VMWare. My friend and fellow tech blogger colleague at ComputerWorld, Steven J Vaughn-Nichols, thinks the company will be down for the count when they take their next hit, that essentially, the...
- Tags: Software, VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Hardware, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- VCs a glum bunch over economy, lack of exits
- Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.07 on a 5 point scale, down from the...
- Tags: Entrepreneurial, Confidence, VC, Mark Cannice, Venture Capital, IPO, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance, Financing Startups, Financial Services, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Live Webcast: Make Customer Experience a Cornerstone of Your Revenue Strategy
- Join this live BNET Webcast to hear industry experts Jeffery Tarter, Executive Director of the Association of Support Professionals ASP, share how leading companies are investing in support and services to deliver a better customer experience, which translates to customer loyalty and reoccurring revenue; and Robert Bell, Services Management Consultant,...
- Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Webcast, Citrix Systems Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance
- Webcasts 2008-07-09
- Broadcast or communicate?
- When the Czarist autocracy was overthrown in the 1917 Russian revolution, fundamental changes in Russian society under the new political structure occurred. A fascinating example for me is that while most of the world was busy building out telephone communications infrastructure, the Soviets chose to focus on installing...
- Tags: E-mail, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Did open source make Green go at VMWare?
- Diane Green Greene has been shown the door at VMWare, the company she founded. Another victim of open source? Possibly. Ironically, Green Greene told our Dan Farber two years ago "the industry goes at Microsoft's cadence," and she's being replaced by a former Microsoft executive,...
- Tags: VMware Inc., Diane Green Greene, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom
- Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...
- Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- PlateSpin Launches PowerConvert 7.0
- PlateSpin, a recent acquisition of Novell recently announced PowerConvert 7.0, The company was quick to point out that this is the first product launch since the acquistion. Why would they go to such great lengths to mention that? They want to convince the market that PlatSpin will continue to be...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., Data Center, Migration, PowerConvert, Aragorn, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Document Management, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- UPDATED: Learning how to use "green" and Microsoft in the same sentence
- NOTE: I've updated this post to include another link with tips on other Microsoft technologies that can contribute to your company's green credentials as well as the link for the Imagine Cup winners. It being the week of Microsoft's annual big-deal partner conference and all, I thought...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- What are the alternatives to the iPhone 3G?
- What are the alternatives to the iPhone 3G?That is an easy onethe only alternative to owning an iPhone is death.[i]"Give me an iPhone, or give me death!"[/i]Funny, I'm wondering if there are any alternatives to the HTC Touch DiamondAs if the big, bulky, heavy nature of the iPhone wasn't bad...
- Tags: Cellular phones, 3G, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore ok
- Study: Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction; Taking back office offshore okBy the same token......who are the "customers" of the "back office" people? Yeah, the CSRs. You keep them in house but outsource the "back office", and all you've accomplished is a slight shift of the dissatisfaction - your...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Strategy, back-office, outsourcing, Offshore outsourcing dings customer satisfaction, back-office offshore, offshore outsourcing, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Google's new foray into image search
- In an interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Google's director of product management for consumer search properties, R.J. Pittman, discusses the search giant's development of software for facial recognition and scene analysis.
- Tags: Image Search, Google Inc., News, google, RJ Pittman, facial recognition
- Videos 2008-07-07
- The nightmare of buying enterprise software
- The nightmare of buying enterprise softwareIt sounds to me...like the blame lays with the salesman selling the user something he doesn't need. But then salesmen are often ill trained on what their company actually offers. Then again, the bigger the software the bigger the price and the bigger the commission.Let's...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Sales strategy, Sales force management, enterprise software, software, software company, tool
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenager
- Having finally gotten my oldest son a nicely-working install of Ubuntu on his laptop, I couldn't resist but wipe out his hard drive (saving his music, of course) and install Vista to get his impressions. He was perfectly content with Ubuntu once I had it all spiffed...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Vista, Compiz, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Icahn, Ballmer pair up, talk Microhoo; Push to boot Yang and Yahoo's board
- Updated: Activist investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft are now in cahoots to toss Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the company's board of directors. Icahn says in a letter that he has been chatting up Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with other key executives about how the two...
- Tags: Transaction, Steve Ballmer, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Icahn, Steve, Search, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
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