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Increased Efficiency is on the Horizon for Three Distinct Companies

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:00:00 GMT

CLM Matrix helps three clients standardize, streamline and achieve efficiencies. Dallas, Texas, USA, February 1, 2010 — CLM Matrix has recently signed agreements with three national companies to help increase their business efficiencies through superior contract lifecycle management. The diversity of industries shows the strength, flexibility, and robustness of CLM Matrix’s products. CLM Matrix is solving problems for: · A leading independent hotel investment and management firm that currently operates over 50 hotels in 17 states. Their goal was to improve operational performance by understanding the true value of each of their properties and conduct more efficient and effective negotiations via the contract process. The implementation of Matrix-Fast Track gave them a repository to store and manage their existing agreements. They also wanted to streamline and tighten-up the governing rights and obligations associated with each agreement. · A large...

Microsoft Contract Management Software Leader Announces 2009 Revenues Up 22 Percent

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:00:00 GMT

CLM Matrix shows an increase in sales through a trying economy. Dallas, Texas, USA, January 29, 2010 — CLM Matrix posts a 22 percent increase in sales over the previous year. CLM Matrix is a Microsoft Gold Certified software company that helps companies achieve greater efficiencies through improved contract lifecycle management. Their Matrix Software solution is 100% based on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Office Professional productivity tools. “Efficiency and cost savings are easy sells even in this tough economy,” says Tim Sparks, CLM Matrix CEO. “When you create a rules-based process complete with a legal library and checks-and-balances, whether you’re managing thousands of contracts or hundreds, you’re going to be more efficient. Those efficiencies immediately translate into profits. And, C-Level Executives tend to like that.” The company has been focused exclusively on Contract Lifecycle Management since 2002...

Microsoft Contract Management company provides new data integration features

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:00:00 GMT

CLM Matrix introduces release 7.4 — providing enhanced data integration capabilities. Dallas, Texas, USA, August 14, 2009 — CLM Matrix has introduced their latest Matrix Software release 7.4. This release has wizard based functionality allowing easy integration with other “best of breed” software systems — thus eliminating duplication and errors. CLM Matrix is one of the fastest growing niche software companies focusing on efficiencies in contract lifecycle management. Without having to spend days, weeks or months of IT collaboration, this new release easily integrates with a company’s other systems such as sales, CRM, accounting or delivery. “Many of our clients are large companies with a variety of legacy systems. We needed to find a way to help them tie it all together. We cringe when we see duplication of data and processes. It wastes so much time and is prone to error,” said Bill Pugh, President of CLM Matrix. “Our goal...

Thanks to CLM Matrix, Contract Management Just Got Easier For 5 Companies Globally

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:00:00 GMT

Electricity. Entertainment. Energy. Financial. Real Estate. Dallas, Texas, USA, August 14, 2009 — CLM Matrix has recently signed agreements with five companies doing business around the world to solve their contract management problems. The diversity of industries shows the strength, flexibility, and robustness of CLM Matrix’s products. The company is solving problems for: · A Canadian utility company that owns and operates power facilities. They needed a repository to store and manage their existing agreements. In so doing, they also wanted to streamline and tighten-up the governing rights and obligations associated with each agreement. Within several weeks of contacting CLM, they were able to install and begin using the company’s Matrix-Fast Track software. · A global entertainment studio is now using CLM Matrix’s Matrix-Enterprise system to create licensing contracts with multiple production cast and crews. It’s not uncommon for...

Contract Management In 1.5 Seconds! From CLM Matrix

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:00:00 GMT

When your entire business is all about improving productivity, speed of the leader takes on a whole new meaning. Dallas, Texas, USA, August 7, 2009 — We’ve all heard the mantra — Do more with less. It’s on the lips of every executive and business owner. In an economy like we’re seeing today, inefficiencies are being exposed like hemorrhaging wounds — critical, and in some cases, life threatening for the company. Products and services that help companies become more productive and efficient are the cure. CLM Matrix is one such company. CLM Matrix’s contract lifecycle management solutions are getting a lot of attention from mid-market and enterprise level companies because they’re helping organizations get a handle on every aspect of the contract management process, including the myriad of business rules, decision rights, and deadlines that are involved. The life of a contract. In some cases it’s daunting, says CLM Matrix President, Bill Pugh. We often joke that an entire...

Solving Customers' Pain Proves to be Recession Proof for CLM Matrix

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:45:00 GMT

CLM Matrix announces best quarter in company’s history. Houston, Texas, USA, July 15, 2009 — Unstructured content is the new buzz phrase causing CFO’s and front line managers with bottom line responsibilities lots of pain. With user-friendly software like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, companies are seeing more and more collaborative projects. And while organizations are reaping real benefit from this team synergy, there are real costs involved in managing the explosion of information being generated. CLM Matrix is one of the first companies to recognize the need to harness the power of SharePoint and take this popular software to an entirely new and manageable level. CLM Matrix uses the SharePoint platform as the basis for its powerful contract lifecycle management products. The CLM Matrix software takes all aspects of the contract process into consideration and helps companies cope with the staggering degree of detail, rules, options, and deadlines that have to be...

Microsoft Tier 1 Partner Eliminates Administrative Clog

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:15:55 GMT

C-Lutions announces that it has changed its name to CLM Matrix. Tim Sparks, Chief Executive Officer, made the announcement earlier this month and will debut the new name and website at the upcoming Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference July 13 – 16, 2009. Dallas, Texas, USA, June 29, 2009 — In today’s sales scarce, cash flow thirsty economy, companies are searching internally for ways to alleviate performance pressure. And, nothing can clog up a system faster than a complex contract. Think about this — the typical Fortune 1000 company maintains 20,000 to 40,000 active contracts at any given time.* Long Gone Are The Days Of Business By Handshake Today when companies make commitments and promises, they do so through contracts. The range of stakeholder groups managing these commitments can be staggering, resulting in a very complex decision-making matrix. The process can get bureaucratic in a hurry resulting in unwanted delays, poor management visibility, and transactional...

Action Packed Entertainment Studio Has Found Their Solution To Efficiencies and Improved Profits Via Contract Lifecycle Management.

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Dallas, Texas, USA, May 5, 2009 —One of the world’s most prominent character-building entertainment companies has chosen CLM Matrix and their Matrix – Enterprise software to help them meet contractual compensation obligations — potentially saving them millions in late fees and penalties. Because they are in the entertainment business, they have Lead Actor agreements with as many as 175 optional clauses with various obligations related to each clause. That’s a tremendous amount of information to keep track of. Says CLM Matrix President, Bill Pugh. By defining the workflow processes for each of their contract types, we were able to configure our software to the key business rules that would generate proactive notifications for key terms. This significantly reduced the amount of manual tasks needed and the automated alerts and triggers the software provides will reduce the financial penalties and ultimately improve the company’s bottom line performance. More About Matrix -...

Canadian Power Company Selects Matrix Fast Track To Improve Contract Governing Rights and Obligations.

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:00:00 GMT

Dallas, Texas, USA, April 29, 2009 — CLM Matrix is pleased to announce one of Canada’s leading developers, owners and operators of independent power facilities as a client. The goal of this power company is to be the leading independent power producer in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. They recognized that one of the keys to achieving this relied on an effective and efficient way to handle the many contracts they’d be implementing. After analyzing their short-term and long-term goals, we determined they needed a repository to store and manage their agreements. Said Bill Pugh, President of CLM Matrix. Our Matrix – Fast Track was the perfect solution. It gave them the repository they needed along with the rules-based smart system which allows them to get a better handle on their governing rights and obligations. And, since our software is built exclusively on the Microsoft Office Suite, they can harness the power of SharePoint but keep implementation and training costs...

Preeminent Canadian Real Estate Company Improves Business Intelligence with CLM Matrix

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Dallas, Texas, USA, March 16, 2009 — A preeminent Canadian-based global property owner, manager, developer and investor, chooses Matrix – Fast Track to strengthen their business intelligence and become even more focused and profitable with their regional and super regional shopping destinations. With properties throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, this developer needed a systematic approach to the numerous customer portfolio interactions they encounter daily. CLM Matrix was able to quickly install their Matrix – Fast Track software giving them a central repository and a way to capture key terms and conditions that are standard elements to their major contracts. The amount of business intelligence they can now extract is significant. said CLM Matrix CEO, Tim Sparks. Within a matter of weeks they were up and running on this software and as a result, making better business decisions. Matrix - Fast Track is a fully scalable, enterprise class solution that...

Financial Services Company Is Able To Increase Its Trading Fixation With New Contract Management Automation.

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Dallas, Texas, USA, February 5, 2009 —A Global trading company who serves as a broker between financial service companies and their clients has selected CLM Matrix to manage their buy-side and sell-side agreements. Of chief importance was the ability to capture and manage the governing terms that influence the type and level of services offered. CLM’s Matrix – Enterprise was installed and today their entire contact lifecycle processes are automated. Tim Sparks, CLM Matrix CEO commented on the new client installation, Our Matrix – Enterprise software is the perfect solution for this company because they have so many intricate details, so many diverse transactions and so many critical obligations to monitor. We are pleased that we were able to provide the type of solution that serves the needs of this financial services organization. More About Matrix - Enterprise™ CLM Matrix and their Matrix - Enterprise solution is the market leader in contract lifecycle management...

U.S.-Based Subsidiary of the World's Leading Oil Producing and Exporting Company Selects CLM Matrix To Automate Contract Lifecycle Management

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:00:00 GMT

Dallas, Texas, USA, January 10, 2009 —CLM Matrix’s recently signed an agreement with a U.S.-based subsidiary responsible for facilitating the safe and reliable delivery of energy to customers around the globe and providing information technology, financial services and marine-vessel services to their parent company. To streamline these activities, they needed to automate the contract initiation and request for new agreement processes. They also needed to automate the capture of standard metadata that governs future rights and obligations and ensure the accuracy of this information in downstream systems. After careful research and review, the company selected Matrix – Enterprise to help them drive the breadth and scale of their business operations globally. We knew Matrix – Enterprise would give them the power they needed to achieve their automation needs. They appreciated the fact that our system works so beautifully with their Microsoft Office Suite and would deliver...

C-Lutions and Contract Forge Announce Formal Partnership Down Under

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - May 15, 2008 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions on the Microsoft Office SharePoint technology platform, today announced that it has formalized a partnership with industry expert Contract Forge to develop the New Zealand and Australia markets for CLM Matrix. Contract Forge specializes in CLM and brings deep contract process and document creation industry experience to its customers. C-Lutions is very excited about the opportunities to significantly grow this market with the talented team of experts at Contract Forge, says Tim Sparks, CEO, C-Lutions. Combining unparalleled contract process experts who have deep local market knowledge with our CLM Matrix technology is a very compelling combination in a market that is seeing unprecedented adoption and year over year growth in Microsoft Office and SharePoint Server. C-Lutions is growing its partner channel around the world with those firms who demonstrate the industry knowledge...

Major Defense Contractor Selects C-Lutions for Contract Management Initiative

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:30:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - April 21, 2008 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management solutions on the Microsoft Office platform, today announced that its ContrACT Fast Track solution has been selected for a contract management project with a multi-national defense contractor. This represents a win in a vertical that demands strong rule and policy based process workflow to ensure compliance with Federal contracting guidelines. All of C-Lutions products come out-of-the box with market leading wizard configurable workflow functionality that requires no code and no developers to set up. This allows the system to be configured to how an organization would like to work while enforcing and ensuring compliance to applicable policies and procedures. Current plans with this new customer are to deploy ContrACT Fast Track in select divisions while evaluating a near term deployment of CLM Matrix, C-Lutions enterprise contract lifecycle management product. C-Lutions is fortunate to have...

C-Lutions Lands Another International Pharma Customer

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:00:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - April 18, 2008 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management solutions on the Microsoft Office platform, today announced that it has been awarded an enterprise contract lifecycle management project with an industry leading pharmaceutical company. The new project entails using CLM Matrix to automate the initiation and creation of buy side contracts including extensive rules based workflow to enforce business policy and governmental requirements. Workflow was an important factor in the decision making process. CLM Matrix was selected over many other contract management solutions and will displace an incumbent workflow product that has been deemed too costly to maintain.

The new pharmaceutical customer plans to use CLM Matrix initially to handle a buy side contract project and then eventually deploy it in other areas of the company to solve similar document-centric collaborative workflow challenges. The flexibility of CLM Matrix lends itself to be applied to solve many different types of challenges. "CLM Matrix provides the right balance of feature/function with flexibility to adapt to most any situation", says David Montgomery, C-Lutions Vice President of Solution Architecture. "We strive to immerse ourselves in many different customer challenges and let that drive our company's R&D innovation priorities".

As the recognized leader in contract lifecycle management on the Microsoft Office platform, C-Lutions continues to innovate and leverage technology included in the Office desktop that will help Fortune 1000 firms streamline, standardize and automate their contract processes.
About Contract Lifecycle Management

Contract Lifecycle Management is an emerging market fueled by the growing awareness of the strategic role of contracts and trade agreements on both the buy and sell side. CLM is the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract initiation, creation, negotiation, and execution through to expiration. Today, most organizations employ a blend of manual, paper-laden, and informal processes that rely on Microsoft Word as attachments in Outlook e-mail. Strategic and valuable information lies trapped in paper documents, exposing the organization to inflated costs, missed revenue opportunities and avoidable compliance risk.

Industry Leading Insurance Company Selects C-Lutions

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:00:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - March 21, 2008 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management solutions on the Microsoft Office platform, today announced that it has been awarded an enterprise contract lifecycle management project with an industry leading insurance company. The new project entails using CLM Matrix to automate the initiation and creation of insurance policies and brochures while enforcing business rules and governmental requirements. Deciding factors in the selection of C-Lutions as the preferred CLM vendor included its flexible policy-based workflow capabilities and superior document intiation and creation functionality. The insurance industry routinely responds to requests for quotations from prospective customers. If selected by the customer as their insurance provider, the company must then create one to many complex policies and brochures that are customized for individual policy holders based on the detailed entitlements provided for in the initial insurance...

C-Lutions Establishes Presence in United Kingdom

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - February 4, 2008 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management solutions on the Microsoft Office platform, today announced that it has established a presence in the United Kingdom for its continued expansion into Europe. Its London-area office in Harpenden, Hertfordshire will support sales and deployment efforts in the UK and the entire EMEA region.

"Interest in CLM Matrix from a broad portion of the EMEA region continues to increase. We felt it was important to establish a local presence in the region to develop and support the increasing demand." says Bob Sparks, Managing Director for EMEA. "We are establishing partnerships with local System Integrators who are experienced in CLM deployments. C-Lutions understands the need for local sales and implementation support and is taking the steps to position the company as the CLM leader throughout EMEA."

Interested parties may contact C-Lutions in the Harpenden office at +44 (0)2070 960 920 or by email at bsparks@clution.com.

As the recognized leader in contract lifecycle management on the Microsoft Office platform, C-Lutions continues to innovate and leverage technology included in the Office desktop that will help Fortune 1000 firms streamline, standardize and automate their contract processes.
About Contract Lifecycle Management

Contract Lifecycle Management is an emerging market fueled by the growing awareness of the strategic role of contracts and trade agreements on both the buy and sell side. CLM is the process of systematically and efficiently managing contract initiation, creation, negotiation, and execution through to expiration. Today, most organizations employ a blend of manual, paper-laden, and informal processes that rely on Microsoft Word as attachments in Outlook e-mail. Strategic and valuable information lies trapped in paper documents, exposing the organization to inflated costs, missed revenue opportunities and avoidable compliance risk.TEST

Major Entertainment Company Selects CLM Matrix for HR Contract Lifecycle Management Project

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:00:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - January 15, 2008 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management solutions on the Microsoft Office platform, today announced that it has been awarded a contract lifecycle management project with an industry leading entertainment company. The new project initially entails managing human resource employment contracts and processes to ensure compliance and governance to company policy and employment law. The ease of configuration and flexibility of CLM Matrix was cited by the customer as being deciding factors in their choosing C-Lutions as the preferred CLM vendor. This project represents the second major recent application of CLM Matrix in recent months for solving Human Resources collaborative workflow and contract challenges. Employment contracts, forms, Human Resources rules and policies are imbedded in some form or another in all organizations. CLM Matrix is perfectly suited to allow organizations of all types to be configured to allow any...

Intl Pharma Company Selects ContrACT Fast Track

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:00:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - January 1, 2008 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management solutions on the Microsoft Office platform, today announced that it has been awarded a contract management project with an international pharmaceutical company. The new project represents another win in a string of recent market successes where C-Lutions technology was selected over rival products. C-Lutions contract management product was selected to displace an installed competitive product because of the intuitive user interface and flexibility of ContrACT Fast Track, C-Lutions entry level contract management product. Entering the Pharma market is a strategic win for C-Lutions and demonstrates the universal appeal that a process centric industry agnostic solution can have in the Contract Lifecycle Management market. C-Lutions pipeline continues to grow rapidly with additional Pharma prospects expressing strong interest in C-Lutions products. Says Steve Chunn, C-Lutions Vice...

C-Lutions Hires New Vice President of Business Development

noemail@clmmatrix.com — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:00:00 GMT

DALLAS, Texas - December 31, 2007 – C-Lutions, LLC., the leader in contract lifecycle management solutions on the Microsoft Office platform, today announced that it recently hired CLM industry veteran Steve Chunn as its Vice President of Business Development. C-Lutions continued rapid growth and success in the CLM market required that it create this new position and bring in someone with deep software industry experience. Says Tim Sparks, C-Lutions CEO, Steve brings to the table a wealth of knowledge and experience in the Contract Lifecycle Management software market and a pragmatic approach that will help C-Lutions discover and redefine how value is created in the CLM market. Steve will contribute greatly to accelerating our company's growth. Steve Chunn previously held key leadership roles at Open Text Corporation, a market leader in collaboration and Enterprise Content Management software solutions and prior to that at Hummingbird where he was part of the team that created...