Contractually – Big Men On Content

I’ve been researching the Contract Life Cycle Management (CLM) ecosystem which has started to overlap the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) ecosystem. In yesterday’s post, I grouped the CLM vendors into three categories based on the level of their out of the box functionality. But I really can’t give a perspective on CLM without addressing a custom CLM solution built on an ECM platform.

So what does a custom CLM solution on an ECM platform look like? ECM platforms, especially those that include compound document support, can easily support everything from contract drafting to obligation tracking. Here are the additional features that would be in the CLM solution you could build on an ECM platform. Continue reading “Building a Custom Contract Life Cycle Management Solution on ECM” →

Contract Life Cycle Management (CLM) is one of the ecosystems where the lines between what that business solution solves and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) can solve are blurring. I spent the last few months researching the CLM industry from the view of ECM. What I’ve learned is that an entire CLM ecosystem has evolved independent of ECM with the same features and functions offered by ECM. This ecosystem is much larger than I thought. Now I know that many of them have capabilities that match ECM. Some CLM vendors even exceed the capabilities that many ECM vendors can offer. The question of configuration versus customization is much simpler when the configuration scenario doesn’t require any customization. What can be done out-of-the-box with CLM is far more than I think most expect. Continue reading “CLM Vendors in your mirror are closer than they appear” →