Most businesses today view contracts and contract management as a file storage of paper documents - from file cabinets to expensive document management systems. Their contracts and their contractual obligations are not necessarily integrated into business operations. At best, most have manual procedures and document stores to track expirations dates with maybe some technology-assisted alert mechanisms. But, expiration dates or renewal dates are only a small fraction of the complete set of ob

Contract management is a lot like a rainstorm. When it’s just a sprinkle, it’s easy enough to keep track of each individual contract. But what happens when the drizzle becomes a deluge, and contracts begin falling into different departments and different locations simultaneously? Information would be splattered everywhere. Critical data would be so spread out that it would be virtually inaccessible.

This paper shows how two products, Microsoft® Office and Microsoft SharePoint®, contribute to the powerful architectural design of the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI). The paper highlights examples of how the power of SharePoint 2010 and related servers can be combined with capabilities of one or more Microsoft Office 2010 applications to deliver rich, intuitive, and easy-to-use capabilities directly into the hands of desktop users.

With the size and complexity of business today, the risks go much further than natural disasters. Contracts typically contain multiple terms and conditions that trigger cost penalties and potential liabilities, while Sarbanes-Oxley and other compliance initiatives have all but inserted government rules into contractual promises.

Developing a SharePoint Roadmap will ensure that your organization will be able to align the business goals with the capabilities provided by SharePoint. Engaging the business to define the desired functionality of the SharePoint solution is the one key activity to a successful implementation.

SharePoint® is one of the hottest products in the enterprise content management (ECM) and collaboration spaces. Why are organizations implementing SharePoint? Is it because Microsoft™ has done a great job at describing the benefits of using SharePoint or is it all about a technology looking for a problem to solve?

Standardization, streamlining, and automation are no longer enough. Contract life-cycle buyers are now embracing the desire for technology to help them manage and enforce their business policies and have become more policy-centric.