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- 5 Steps to Contract Lifecycle Management Success - From Analysis to Implementation
- View this recorded webcast for a technical panel discussion of the EMC/Selectica Contract Lifecycle Management Solution. The attendee will hear how specific customers have followed the 5 key steps to ensure successful implementation and achieve a fast return on their technology investment Contracts: They are essential to doing business, yet...
- Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management, EMC Corp., Analysis, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-06-10
- Discover New Efficiencies With Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM)
- In almost all cases, Contract Lifecycle Management CLM has become the leading enablement methodology. There are many parties involved in creating a business contract. The process requires input from various departments such as Legal, Marketing, Sales, Production and Logistics. One of the key objectives of CLM is to facilitate corporate...
- Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management
- White papers 2007-12-19
- Contract Lifecycle Management - Click-Through Demo 1 (Windows)
- 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, Microsoft Windows
- 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, Vendor
- White papers 2007-08-10
- 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 Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., Sales Cycle, Upside Software, Sales Tools, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software
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Additional Resources
- Digital Signatures for Contract Management
- As organizations move to implement custom and off-the-shelf contract management applications, many of these systems fail to provide appropriate electronic approval and signing features. This creates a major gap in the workflow and execution of a contract, requiring organizations to re-introduce paper into their automated contract management workflow, slowing collaborative...
- Tags: Contract Management, Digital Signature, ARX, Service Management
- White papers 2009-09-16
- News to know: Microsoft, Yahoo; AMD; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Who will get the Windows 7 bits and when? Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- News to know: Intel-Nokia; Netbooks; Security Essentials; Oracle; Win7
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dana Blankenhorn: Intel-Nokia deal boosts open source Jason Hiner: A Nokia, Intel partnership makes sense, but they...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Nokia Corp., Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Best Practices for Building a Business Case for a Contract Management Solution at Your Company
- The presenters of this webcast shares proven strategies to gain executive support, across business units and departments to deploy a contract management solution. To increase contract revenue and worker productivity, organizations must be able to find a contract when they need it, enforce standardization of language and terms, speed contract...
- Tags: Business Case, Contract Management, Webcast, Best Practice, EMC Corp., Service Management, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-06-11
- Assessing Bid Viability With Primavera Risk Analysis
- Before drafting and presenting a bid, a company must evaluate the revenue potential of the project, the type of contract to enter into, and its own capacity for executing the project. Each of these areas is heavily impacted by uncertainty. To create the best-possible bid, companies use Primavera Risk Analysis,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Bid, Financial Planning, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Connecting the Spend Management Dots with Contracts
- While not exactly a well-known name, Zycus continues its spend management expertise by rounding out its sourcing suite with Contract management. Targeted towards the sourcing and procurement professional, Zycus iContract provides organizations the ability to actualize negotiated contract savings through real-time monitoring, proactive alerting, and search capabilities. The product has intelligent...
- Tags: Contract Management, Contract Management Product, Service Management, Mickey North Rizza
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- The 'Pay-Per-Use' Principle Drives IT Consolidation
- Vaillant, the heating technology specialist, has expanded through acquisitions in Europe. Its IT subsidiary, VAICON was tasked to develop an integrated company-wide IT platform based on established standards, which would enable it to offer centralised IT services to all countries. As part of an extension of its outsourcing contract with...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, IT Consolidation, Strategy, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- Vaillant: Europe-Wide IT Harmonisation Increases Flexibility and Reduces Operating Costs
- Vaillant, the heating technology specialist, has expanded through acquisitions in Europe. Its IT subsidiary, VAICON was tasked to develop an integrated company-wide IT platform based on established standards, which would enable it to offer centralised IT services to all countries. As part of an extension of its outsourcing contract with...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Strategy, It Services, Management
- Case studies 2009-01-01
- BMC Remedy Asset Management
- The complexity and changes in today's distributed IT environments make it difficult to manage the costs, compliance, and operational requirements of IT assets. BMC Remedy Asset Management helps to lower IT costs, manage compliance, and improve the return on capital with an operational approach to lifecycle, inventory, contract, and cost...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Asset Management, Remedy Corp., ITIL, It Management, Strategy, It Services, It service Management, Management
- Webcasts 2008-06-25
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- What CIOs really want
- What CIOs really wantWho cares?I don't give a rat's patootie what CIOs "want," but I do know what they all need -- a good dose of salts. Is there anyone in or out of the known universe who's more anti-user than a CIO?RE: What CIOs really wantI met with a...
- Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Monitors & displays, Strategy, IT Organizations
- Discussion threads 2007-12-11
- Oracle OpenWorld: The fruits of 'acquired innovation'
- Oracle has taken over the Moscone Center and cordoned off streets this week in San Francisco for the annual gathering of its tribe. Last night CEO Larry Ellison celebrated the 30th anniversary of the company he founded, with "Saturday Night Live" member Darrell Hammond doing an Ellison imitation. Ellison then...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Oracle LogicalApps Active Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, IPO, Product Marketing, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Financial Services, Marketing, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-12
- Financing SaaS ventures
- The pay-as-you-go business model of on-demand software makes it more difficult for up-and-coming vendors to reach break-even point than with conventional licensed software. Instead of signing a handful of customers to get enough money in the bank to start covering its overheads, an on-demand vendor needs to sign up dozens...
- Tags: Business models, Venture capital
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Look for a quickening tango between open source and SaaS at LinuxWorld
- I recently wrote about how SaaS applications can be delivered as on-premises instances with increasing ease. Now I'm seeing evidence of more overlap and mutual advancement of open source models with SaaS. And a lot of it has to do with the ability to have the application services delivered across...
- Tags: Saas
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- Rage against the ESB machine
- Rage against the ESB machineMiddleware is a good thingPoor architecture is poor architecture. It's not the middleware's fault nor is it the middleware that makes everything great. The concepts of abstraction , loose coupling, resiliency etc all apply whether you are using middleware or not. Having said that,...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Enterprise Service Bus, SOA, middleware
- Discussion threads 2006-03-01
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