SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 24, 2012) - Selectica (
Selectica also announced today the availability of Selectica Guided Selling for Salesforce on Force.com, salesforce.com's social enterprise platform for employee-facing social apps. Customers who deploy both Selectica Guided Selling and Selectica CLM can connect their sales and contract processes and go from configuring, pricing, and quoting (CPQ) to contract renewal in an end-to-end process.
Of the most noteworthy new features in the latest release of Selectica CLM is the introduction of "Contract Blueprints," a set of pre-configured, best-practice contract types that allow users to get started quickly managing a variety of sales, procurement, operational, and industry-specific contracts. In addition to Contract Blueprints, this release of Selectica CLM also includes improvements that round out the application's Microsoft Word integration, eSignature, and audit trail capabilities, and it introduces a variety of upgrades to further personalize the user experience, including additional dashboard configuration options, directory enhancements, and updated security, user, and role reporting.
"We had an opportunity to preview these updates at Selectica Fusion '12, our annual user conference, and they were met with a great deal of enthusiasm, particularly our new pre-configured contract types," said Selectica Chief Strategy Officer Kamal Ahluwalia. "Time-to-value is key for our customers and our prospects. Contract Blueprints are not only the fastest way for an organization to start managing the vast majority of its essential contract types, but they also give the organization confidence that when its contracts are produced and managed in Selectica CLM, they reflect industry best practices."
Among the key features and functionality enhancements included in the latest release of Selectica CLM are:
- Quick-start contract types: Contract Blueprints -- based on extensive customer input and years of Selectica implementations -- are a set of sales, procurement, operational, and industry-specific contract templates that allow users to get up and running with contract management quickly and prevent incorrect contract types from proliferating.
- Workflow options: Contract Blueprint types come with pre-configured standard six-stage workflows or simple four-stage workflows in accordance with contract management best practices.
- Contract check-out from Microsoft Word: Users can now check out, search, and view summary information, as well as check in, validate, and create contracts without leaving Word, making it easier for them to work in the tools they use most and simultaneously receive the benefits of a fully automated contract management system.
- Highly personalized user experience: New ways to customize dashboards, rules, and directories within Selectica CLM makes the application even more flexible to meet the unique needs of individual users.
- Out-of-the-box eSignature capabilities: Selectica CLM now comes with eSignature capabilities automatically built in, so internal and external parties can sign contracts via electronic signature -- and easily locate signature data when they need it in a readily accessible audit trail.
Selectica Contract Lifecycle Management is an automated solution that allows companies with complex contract processes to manage contracts from request, authoring, and negotiation through ongoing obligation management and renewal.
Interested parties can learn more about Selectica Contract Lifecycle Management as well as Selectica Guided Selling at www.selectica.com.
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