What is CobbleStone CLM Software?

CobbleStone's Contract Lifecycle Management Software provides a comprehensive solution for automating and centralizing your organization's lifecycle for contracts, agreements, and committals, from start to finish.

What Features Should a Contract Lifecycle Management System Have?

CobbleStone's Contract Lifecycle Software leverages out-of-the-box features for contract data field tracking, key alerts, risk management, contract drafting, contract review, and industry specific contract type tracking. Enhance your organizational processes via configuration (not costly customization), integrate seamlessly with other mission-critical applications, and experience a user-friendly interface; ensuring ease-of-use, smooth transitions with high adoption rates, and rapid time-to-value.

Intelligent Contract Lifecycle Management Software

CobbleStone Contract Insight is a leading tool used by thousands of contract professionals enhanced with VISDOM® artificial intelligence. Overall, a great contract lifecycle management system should include full contract, vendor, and customer management, contract requests, approvals, and workflows, contract drafting with pre-approved templates (with field merging and clause merging), negotiation, online collaboration, ink and electronic signatures, post-execution management, spend management and alerts, and optionally purchase/procurement and bidding processing.

CobbleStone CLM Software: Unmatched Experience!

CobbleStone's Enterprise Contract Management Software provides organizations of all sizes with powerful capabilities and functionality at every step of a contract's lifecycle with unmatched features.

The Contract Lifecycle with CobbleStone

Requests


Requesting ContractsWith CobbleStone's contract lifecycle management software solutions, employees, vendors, customers, clients, suppliers, providers, etc. have the permission-based ability to request a new contract through a standard, centralized process.

Contract Tracking - Track Contract Request: Contract Insight can easily and quickly capture, route, manage, and monitor contract requests, agreements, committals, and obligations. Contract Insight's powerful contract technology allows organizations to capture configurable contract key fields, data requirements, and process workflow approvals for each type of contract, while centralizing and streamlining your contract management lifecycle workflow

Authoring


Contract Authoring & Assembly (Contract Writing): Contracting professionals can utilize our contract lifecycle management system to create contracts in any type of contract creation program. Existing document templates can be leveraged in CobbleStone's CLM software for use with contract authoring.

MS Word Integration: Contract Insight is designed to work with your organization's existing methods of writing and negotiating contracts. Legal departments can continue to utilize MS Word's functionality while Contract Insight remains transparent, real-time two-way integration between our Word-like editor and MS Word itself.

Contract Insight Word-Like Template Editor: Our contract lifecycle management software's MS Word-like editor can be used in two different ways. Users can copy and paste (or drag and drop) text from a document, or draft a contract from scratch in the template editor. 

Negotiations


Contract Negotiations & Online Collaboration PortalUsers can create drafts and versions of their contracts for review by other employees, or even vendors/customers/clients, etc. All drafts and versions are fully exportable to both MS Word and PDF formats.

Contract Viewing: Our contract lifecycle management system supports real-time access to all key contract data by employees, users, and optionally vendors/customers/clients, etc. All document information is available online through our web interface and is fully searchable by any data point captured in the system.

Version Comparisons: Side-by-side comparisons of different drafts and/or versions provide a quick and easy way for users to review changes and determine next steps.

Approvals


Contract Approvals Processes: CobbleStone's contract lifecycle management software system leverages your organization's existing contract workflows by providing user definable/configurable approval workflow processes that can be initiated from any step in the contract lifecycle. Organizations can create parallel, serial, or hybrid approval workflows as simple or complex as needed through our easy-to-use workflow configuration interface. 

Workflow Processes: By establishing rules for workflow processes, your legal teams and other resources are assured that the proper reviews, approvals, tasks, events, notifications, and alerts will be initiated for every contract precisely at the right time.

Notification & Alerts: Automatic email and system calendar alerts are configured and delivered by the CLM software system. Both are designed to alert all key business users and stakeholders to any and all process step assignments, information, requirements, and deadlines.

Execution


Contract  Execution and Electronic SignaturesCobbleStone's contract lifecycle management system assists organizations by controlling, optimizing, and reducing the time and resources needed for drafting, review, approval and execution of a contract.

Finalized Contract Files: Secure and centralized repositories for each contract provide users with a way to easily navigate and identify the location for all final and signed files.

Obligations


Contract Obligation & Task/Alert Management: Value from our CLM software solutions doesn't end when the contract has been executed. The life of a contract and its relationships continue post-execution with alerts, workflow processes, risk assessment, spend management, compliance monitoring, and advanced reporting metrics.

Spend Management: Take advantage of contract pricing and budget tracking. Track and monitor vendor related costs, line item and overall financials reporting, and receive advanced budget alerts using vendor/client management.

Obligation & Task Events: Workflow processes for obligations and tasks are not relegated to your organization's pre-execution time frame. They can be targeted to execute when certain criteria are met, prior to execution, after execution, or both. This flexibility assures that the proper approvals, notifications, and alerts will be initiated for every contract at precisely the right time.

Notifications & Alerts: Automatic email and calendar alerts are configured and delivered by the system. Both are designed to alert all key business users and stakeholders to any and all process step assignments, information, requirements, and deadlines.

Compliance


Contract Compliance Auditing, Monitoring & Reporting: Advanced reporting capabilities in CobbbleStone's contract lifecycle management software are targeted to provide organizations with visibility into all contractual relationships across business units/entities including full audit trails for every contract. Regulatory, Legal, and other compliance standards are maintained through advanced reporting metrics and automated system notification of key dates and renewal requirements. 

Personal Defined Dashboards: Personal dashboards provide a convenient and personalized launching point for all of your activities within the system, automatically displaying information that needs to be on your radar each day.

Reporting Manager (Ad-Hoc): Ad-Hoc reporting provides user definable custom reports such as status reports, upcoming tasks, financial commitments, or date ticklers. Reports are exportable to Word, Excel or PDF from the contract lifecycle management system.

Online Report Designer: The online report designer allows users to completely customize and design a report's layout as well as the information it is displaying. The online report designer also provides dozens of export options including Word, Excel, PDF, CSV, Rich Text, Image formats, and more.

Contract Intelligence: Leverage the powerful tools needed to manage complex contracts. CobbleStone Software has modules for machine learning, risk analytics, risk recommendation engine, critical value alerts, and more.

Renewals


Contract Renewals & Amendments: CobbleStone's CLM software enables organizations to capitalize on each and every renewal opportunity by identifying candidates for renewal, alerting employees to these contracts in time to make business decisions, and creating new contracts or drafts based on existing ones.

Identify Next Steps: Each renewal requirement is identified in advance, providing necessary lead time to key business users and stakeholders to review and make decisions on which process to follow for renewals, amendments, terminations, or any other actions.

 

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