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36 contract management systems for law departments, courtesy of David Munn

By Rees Morrison

David Munn spoke at the ACC Annual Meeting, Oct. 30, 2007. His materials listed 36 programs for contract management, ranging from relatively inexpensive programs, through matter management systems that include contract management features, to full-blown CLM systems. He points out that most of these vendors have extensive information on their web sites. I haven?t confirmed any of the sites, and during the intervening 16 months or so several of the sites and facts have probably changed.

1. Apttus Delivered only as a service. Integrated with SalesForce.com
2. Ariba
3. Basware
4. Bridegway eCounsel matter management system
5. CMA Contiki
6. CobbleStone Systems
7. ContractAssistant (Blue Ridge Software)
8. Contraxx (Ecteon)
9. Corporate Legal Standard A relatively new entrant that has contract management as a part of a more comprehensive system to manage legal processes.
10. Decipher Contract Management
11. Emptoris (purchased DiCarta)
12. ERP System Vendors (e.g., Oracle, SAP) ? ERP systems are generally not seen as being able to provide the full range of CLM functions, although this will probably change over time. Most of the CLM system vendors, however, claim they can integrate with existing ERP systems.
13. Exari Document assembly vendor Exari now has a contract management system.
14. Finetooth
15. First Docs
16. Great Minds Software Contract Advantage
17. I-Many
18. Intellicontract
19. Interwoven and Perfectus
20. Ketera
21. Lecorpio
22. LegalSquire
23. Lex Contract Suite
24. Memba
25. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) SharePoint now includes features that make it possible to use it as the basis for a contract management system.
26. Nextance (purchased by Versata 2007)
27. OpenSource
28. OpenText (acquired Hummingbird)
29. Pontus Global A new entrant in the industry that combines technology and contract processes, supported by a team of offshore and onshore resources.
30. Procuri (being acquired by Ariba)
31. Selectica
32. Serengeti Tracker. Serengeti?s matter management and e-billing system includes a contract management module at no additional cost.
33. Softrax
34. SpringCM
35. Tractis
36. Upside Contract

Full post as published by Law Department Management on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).