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UpsideContract-Office
for Microsoft®
Office
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Benefits
UpsideContract-Office addresses a key issue that many companies are struggling with in their contract management initiatives – they are currently using Microsoft Word to create, edit and share contract documents, so why would they start to use another tool, no matter how good it is?
UpsideContract-Office answers this question by providing the best of both worlds – the ability to create, edit, share and maintain documents in Microsoft Word seamlessly within the industry’s best contract management solution.
UpsideContract-Office supports full lifecycle contract management by improving collaborative contract creation and negotiation, and event management – providing direct access to web-based performance, compliance and risk management functionality via a special UpsideContract menu and Smart Document task pane right from within Word.
Other benefits include:
- High user adoption and reduced training requirements with the intuitive and well-known interface and environment of Microsoft Office.
- Improved access to information processes for all stakeholders, driving better business relationships – definitely a key part of Supplier and Customer Relationship Management.
- Greatly improved management of contracts across the enterprise, maximizing value from agreements as well as providing governance assurance.
- Significantly reduced costs for creating and managing contracts and streamlined conversion of legacy contracts.
- Greatly improved management information and reporting on contracts and contracted activities.
- Quick and efficient deployment (can be included as part of your Microsoft Office 2003® or higher (including Office 2007®) installation).
- Eases compliance with many of the requirements for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation.
- Simple and quick deployment of UpsideContract-Office – including support for ‘automatic update’ via the Web – and the back-end server system.
- Fast return on investment (ROI) – typically less than 6 months.
UpsideContract-Office also provides:
- Offline document sharing
- UpsideContract-Office enables contract searching, selection and check-in / check-out within MS-Word. Once a document is checked out it can be saved locally to be sent to others for off-line editing, and can then be reloaded into the system and checked back in. All revisions are identified as red-lined changes and all versions are maintained for audit purposes.
- Document conversion and import
- UpsideContract-Office supports standard document import and conversion utilities that are built into Microsoft Word. This enables fast and effective conversion of existing documents into the system, keeping all sections, clauses, styles, headers and footers, fonts, etc. as defined in the Word document.
- Document controls
- UpsideContract-Office provides extensive document control with functionality that mimics the document controls in the web-based document editor in
UpsideContract. These controls include:
- Management of alternative clauses, both those selected automatically and those selected manually.
- Protection of mandatory clauses – ensuring mandatory text cannot be changed or deleted.
- Enforcement of document style and layout.
- Outlook integration
- UpsideContract-Office provides integration with Microsoft Outlook to put users' system identified / driven tasks and notifications in front of them without having to open
UpsideContract. This streamlines notification and activity management associated with contracts.
Contact us to learn more
and to arrange a demo of UpsideContract and UpsideContract-Office.
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