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UpsideContract-Office is a client-based interface to Upside Software’s enterprise-class contract management solution, UpsideContract.

UpsideContract-Office provides local document creation, editing, review, and sharing along with activity and communication management all within Microsoft Office’s well-known user interface and environment.

UpsideContract-Office users can access the full, online capabilities of UpsideContract and can take full advantage of their knowledge and experience with Microsoft Word® to easily prepare, edit, and review contract documents, and manage workflow activities and contract related communications.

UpsideContract-Office supports full lifecycle contract management by improving collaborative contract creation, negotiation, and event management, as well as providing direct access to web-based performance, compliance, and risk management functionality via a special UpsideContract menu and Smart Document task pane from within MS Word.

UpsideContract is based on Microsoft .NET technology, fitting well with the technical environment that Microsoft Office operates; this also simplifies interoperability and integration with all other systems on a platform that provides significantly better performance and usability than other technologies. Advanced design and extensive flexibility of the user-configurable web interface ensures seamless user transition from the contract document in MS Word to the rest of the contract information and functions in UpsideContract.

To maximize the effectiveness of the system's implementation, UpsideContract includes a robust deployment management tool that simplifies the installation of both the client and server side components, and supports Microsoft’s automatic update technology ensuring client software remains current.

UpsideContract-Office improves every aspect of the contracting process and raises the bar for enterprise contract management best practices.

Benefits

UpsideContract-Office addresses a key issue that many companies are struggling with in their contract management initiatives – they are currently using Microsoft Word to create, edit and share contract documents, so why would they start to use another tool, no matter how good it is? UpsideContract-Office answers this question by providing the best of both worlds – the ability to create, edit, share and maintain documents in Microsoft Word seamlessly within the industry’s best contract management solution.

UpsideContract-Office supports full lifecycle contract management by improving collaborative contract creation and negotiation, and event management – providing direct access to web-based performance, compliance and risk management functionality via a special UpsideContract menu and Smart Document task pane right from within Word.

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Handles contracts and contracting activities of all types including procurement, sales, legal, Intellectual Property, NDA, etc.
Collaborative creation and management of contract documents in Microsoft Word 2003.
- Import, create, share, edit and negotiate contracts natively in Microsoft Word 2003.
- Leverage document templates to ensure consistency.
- Protect clauses to restrict editing.
- Effectively control document layout and style.
- Define data-driven, automatic selection of clause alternative.
- Simplifies user click-to-select for optional alternative clauses.
- Add data placeholders in text for things like vendor name, contract value, etc. that automatically update.
Enables offline document creation, editing, sharing, and review with check-out / check-in capabilities.
Advanced legacy conversion functions that automate the conversion of existing contracts.
Includes UpsideContract’s Web application that offers a vast array of functionality, including:
- Vendor / supplier and customer relationship management capabilities, including Performance and Compliance Management.
- User defined field support and e-Forms for complete data management flexibility.
- Powerful workflow engine that can be applied to any data object or document in the system.
- Compliance, performance and risk tracking, monitoring and event management.
- Full integration with ERP, financial, legacy and back-end systems (including Asset Management, Document Management, etc.).
Code security ensures that only enterprise-trusted code will run.
As UpsideContract is needed to run UpsideContract-Office, all of the features and benefits contained within UpsideContract are also applicable and can be leveraged.

These are only a few of the many features that UpsideContract-Office offers. Click here to see the comprehensive UpsideContract-Office features list.