Selectica has created an infographic containing interesting statistics about the usage of contract management software solutions. Sources of the research come from Aberdeen Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers and IACCM.
Cloud Service Level Agreements: Free Access Articles Offer Tips/Advice
According to a recent survey by North Bridge Venture Partners and Giga OM Research, cloud adoption continued to rise in 2013 – up from 67% last year. The value of…
Supplier Management and IT Sourcing Complexity
Karl Flinders (ComputerWeekly.com) summarizes the Forrester Research events in London at the recent Architecting Tomorrow’s Business Outcomes conference. Here are the highlights: IT services contracts and expectations are misaligned 69%…
Is Adobe's Shift To the Cloud the Start Of a Trend?
Adobe has announced that it will transition Creative Suite (shrink-wrap version), which includes Photoshop, toward Creative Cloud, a subscription-based service for software and updates. Creative Suite’s traditional business model “revolved…
New Gartner Report: Software License Order Forms
Gartner’s Joseph Neapolitan and Jane B. Disbrow have just published a new report entitled “Protect Your Software Investment by Negotiating Order Forms Vigilantly to Avoid Conflict with the Master Agreement.”…
Is the Contract Manager Role in Decline?
Tim Cummins, CEO of the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM), raises his concern about the declining role of contract managers (even though recent interviews with Global 250…
New Research: Services Contract Checklist
Forrester has published a new resource entitled Services Contract Review Checklist. This checklist “covers 10 major categories of contract terms and provides detail on common/standard terms and conditions within those…
The Competencies a Contract Manager Needs
Contracting Excellence, the publication by IACCM (International Association for Contract & Commercial Management) has just posted an article entitled, The Competencies a Contract Manager Needs: A Process Perspective by Maria Arraiza-Monteux…