FileMaker Press Release
Contract Management Suite 3.0 To Be Released at Macworld Expo 2008
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- January 14, 2008 -- The Contract Management
Company (CMC) announced that it will release the Contract
Management Suite 3.0 at the Macworld Expo, January 15-18, 2008, at
the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The Suite enables full contract life-cycle
management—including contract creation and
compliance—all in an integrated platform that is easy to
use and implement. The Suite introduces a new application, Project
Pro, to CMC’s family of software, which presents a fresh
approach to proven project and contract management tools such as
Gantt charts resource management and issue management.
For the 3.0 release, CMC also enhanced the capabilities and
interfaces of the Suite’s three other
applications—Contract Wizard, Contract Warehouse and
Supplier Pro—which have been used by CMC clients since
2004 with great success. In fact, CMC won the 2007 Top Performer
Award from JEA, the nation’s eighth-largest municipal
utility, for the benefits they directly realized from using the
Suite.
A client-focused perspective is one of CMC’s hallmarks
and Chris Martoglio, CMC managing director, said that
CMC’s client experience greatly strengthens the new
Suite. “A large part of our business is providing
contract, project and program management service,” he
said. “This advanced insight allows us to address
specific, real-world concerns and challenges, which we have
incorporated in our 3.0 Suite.”
CMC’s experience includes providing clients with
on-demand contracting services—for example, negotiating
and implementing contracts for nearly $400 million of goods and
services just in 2007—and contract/program management. In
addition to giving its software a strong advantage, CMC’s
experience enables it to provide expert implementation services and
to perform custom development to perfectly match the inevitable
variety of clients’ needs.
While the Suite’s modules are each available as
stand-alone applications, Clinton McChesney, CMC’s lead
programmer, said the most part of version 3.0 is how the modules
function together. “My favorite part of the Suite is the
ability to work on a document, say in the Contract Wizard, and
immediately view that document in one of the other modules such as
Supplier Pro or Project Pro. They’re just one click
away.”
CMC will offer the Suite as either a hosted solution, which
benefits users in several ways including reduced maintenance costs
and faster implementation, or as an on-site solution when preferred
by clients. And because CMC developed the system using FileMaker
Server, the Suite provides a trusted workgroup solution accessible
to both MAC and Windows users.
“We are all very excited to bring the Contract
Management Suite 3.0 to market,” said Martoglio.
“It is a true, full life-cycle project and contract
management solution for the small and mid-size business market, and
for workgroups within larger corporations. Its ease-of-use and
range of functionality is a breakthrough achievement for
us—no one wants to struggle with new software.”
Benefits & Functions Summary of the Contract Management
Suite 3.0
• Contract Wizard: Create,
edit and publish standard or non-standard contract forms, using
client-defined clauses powered by a client-specific
“wizard” for maximum efficiency and
effectiveness in document creation. Flexible, yet standardized.
• Contract Warehouse:
Store contract documents (e.g. contracts, technical specifications,
drawings) in a central contract file, manage the flow of document
reviews and approvals, and track dates and cycle-times. Flag
actions and dates in your company’s contracts so that
you’ll never miss another important contract-related
date.
• Project Pro: Manage
projects and contracts individually or as groups, ensure compliance
and create shared plans and schedules in Gantt or calendar views.
Get a fresh perspective of your projects, and contracts.
• Supplier Pro: The
award-winning approach to evaluating supplier performance and
taking real steps for improvement using meaningful scorecards with
defined actions and consequences. Real results, real supplier data,
real supplier performance improvement.
About The Contract Management Company
CMC is a management consulting and software development firm
located in Jacksonville, Fla. For over 10 years, CMC has been
committed to providing small and mid-sized organizations and
workgroups in both the public and private sectors with services
that are both traditional in quality and creative in approach. CMC
specializes in providing services and software to help with the
details of contract negotiation, contract administration, project
and program management and supplier performance, in addition to
traditional management consulting services.
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Media contact: Erin Martoglio (904) 825-9900, ext. 2
emartoglio@contractmc.com
www.contractmc.com
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Project Pro and Contract Warehouse are trademarks of The Contract
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