Contract Performance Management Features

Selectica’s Contract Management Solution was developed from the ground up to be quickly and easily adaptable to the dynamic demands of contract management across the enterprise. With Selectica, robust functionality is built-in and available out of the box; costly and time-consuming programming is never needed to adapt the contract management solution to your own requirements. The contract management solution is also adaptable in the contract types it supports. Whether you need to manage procurement, sales, revenue, healthcare, IT, employment, leasing, or intellectual property contracts, you can count on Selectica’s contract management solution to meet the challenge.

Selectica Contract Performance Management Features Contract Management Dashboard     Personalized Dashboard Personalized dashboard for contract status, open tasks, searching, and reports.  Includes a calendar and individual alerts for expiring contracts and task deadlines. Central Contract Repository     Central Contract Repository Centralized, web-based document management environment for contracts and attachments.     Search Full-text & Boolean keyword search of business terms and attachments.  Includes filtering and querying.     Attachments Attach native, scanned, and faxed documents for all major file types (Word, PDF, Excel, PPT, image files, and more).     Electronic Fax Loading Load existing contracts, including third-party contracts, into the Selectica repository via Fax.  Faxes are automatically converted to fully searchable PDF format and attached to the corresponding contract. Alerts     Notifications and Tasks Email notifications based on contract dates, expirations, renewals, key events, tasks, and approvals, as well as updates from external systems.     Custom Email Alerts   Create custom email content to be included whenever an email is sent from our system, whether based on a workflow event, a compliance alert, a business rule, or a scheduled report delivery.  The email can contain direct links to the associated records. Contract Creation and Authoring     Microsoft Word-based     Contract Authoring Create and edit contracts in Microsoft Word.     Contract Creation Wizard Generate contracts in Microsoft Word by answering conditional questions in a web-based wizard, allowing experienced users as well as non-contract professionals to create contracts with company-approved clauses and contract language.     Clause Library and     Template Library Searchable, reportable contract repository of clause language used in boilerplates that can be inserted directly into contracts.     Third-party contracts Import third-party contract documents in MS Word and extract critical business variables.     Workflow Highly configurable workflow and rules based on your business needs.  Supports serial, conditional, and parallel processes.     Approvals Multistep approval tasks at any stage of a serial, parallel, or conditional workflow. Each approval task can be adjusted according to ANY business terms such as amount of contract, start date, payment terms, type of agreement, and more. Contract Process Management      Self-Service Composer Create and control your own processes for Contracts, Boilerplates, Approvals, Tasks, Notifications, User Accounts, Rules and more - without requiring expensive IT or professional services resources.     Approval Processes Generate approval processes for both serial and parallel processes that adjust according to specified business terms such as amount of contract, start date, payment terms, and type of agreement.     Dashboard Composer Set up unique contract compliance alerts and performance analysis reports for any or all contract types. Reporting      Ad-Hoc Reporting Simple-to-use Ad-Hoc reporting tool allows for rapid, on-demand report generation.     One-Click Access One-click access from report results to the contract records themselves, for the monitoring of compliance and the support of the auditing process.     Charting and Dashboard Reports feature charting capabilities and display on a user's personalized dashboard.     Contract Compliance Full audit trail provides the ability to see who made what changes to a record - down to the field level. Contract Analytics     Contract Analytics Selectica Contract Analytics enables multidimensional analyses of contract and off-contract data, including data from third party transactional systems, data repositories and traditional business intelligence applications.  Unlike other commercially available analytics tools, Selectica Contract Analytics was built specifically to handle contract-specific information.     Excel Interface Microsoft-Excel front end to data cube.  Data and fields that are added to Selectica CPM are automatically updated in the Contract Analytics module, reports, and Dashboards.     Integration The Contract Analytics engine can be used to power standard external report writers such as Crystal Reports, Cognos, Adobe, and Business Objects. Security     Security Strong network (128 bit SSL) and data security.  Enveloped in a uniform security model, the contacts and associated data stored within the CPM Solution are protected by the same rules and permissions whether accessed through the browser, PDA, Web Services, or reports.     Permissions The Selectica solution provides permission-level access to both data and menu functions. The Selectica Solution has been tested and certified by Netsec security testing and in IBM performance labs. Integration     Integration Strong SOA platform enables bi-directional integration with back-office systems such as ERP, CRM, SRM, and Procurement systems, as well as Business Intelligence tools such as Crystal Reports, Cognos and Business Objects via Web Services, JDBC or custom integration. Deployment Options       Deployment Options On-Demand, Hosted, or On-Site.  Learn more about Deployment Options >>