Contract Insights

Why do you trust your software provider?  Is there any specific criteria by which you measure a software system’s trustworthiness in protecting sensitive and confidential data such as PCI (payment card information), PII (personally identifiable information), employee information, client details, vendor data, and vital contract data?  With increased risk of data and security breaches, especially during such uncertain times as these, you should be confident that your information is stored on a trusted platform.  Read on to learn how to use such a trusted platform, along with the importance of SOC compliance.

As was detailed in our recent blog on CobbleStone’s PC Helper App for MS Outlook, contract generation is a multi-faceted process.  A unified procedure for contract collaboration, contract writing, and contract negotiation can be hard to come by.  The “track changes” feature that comes with MS Word out of the box can help make the contract negotiation process easier with redlining.  However, version control issues can arise when contract stakeholders work on different computers in disparate locations.  In turn, documents that are saved locally can easily get lost – potentially resulting in more work for involved contract stakeholders.

To avoid issues such as lost document versions and contract lifecycle bottlenecks, CobbleStone Software’s latest release of its celebrated contract management software – Contract Insight® 17.7.0 – offers a PC Helper App that seamlessly integrates with MS Word. Here’s how to use that functionality.

Many times, contract managers work in a fast-paced environment with short deadlines.  When dealing with an influx of emails containing a plethora of documents, the lack of integration between an email platform and a contract management system can cause important documents to fall through the cracks - thus increasing contract workflow inefficiencies. Thankfully, a user-friendly contract lifecycle management software system integrated with MS Outlook can streamline the contract lifecycle.  This, in turn, helps contract managers, legal teams, procurement professionals, and sourcing professionals save more time and reduce contract workflow bottlenecks.

Due to unforeseen challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic - and in the interest of CobbleStone's partners', clients', and employees' safety - CobbleStone has postponed its in-person Austin, TX user conference tentatively until late 2021 and will now be hosting a virtual user conference on January 20^th and 21^st from 1 pm to 5 pm ET on each day.