Likelihood to Recommend CLM is best suited for Medium to Large size corporations, in my opinion. Organizations need to be informed in order to be successful; they must have a team prepared to own and manage the CLM tool once implementation is complete. Great for B2B and B2C. Highly recommend it to those in question about purchasing for their organization.
Read full review If you have a highly bureaucratic organization that is heavily focused on procurement, Emptoris can provide some value. It seemed to be very good at linking the contract information to procurement for better spend control. If you are trying to implement a standalone contract management solution that allows you to easily create contracts and store them in a central location, this isn't the tool for you. There doesn't appear to be a simplified implementation. In general, when a SaaS solution has a complicated and expensive implementation, I am very skeptical. This does not show that the vendor is trying to move customers forward on a single code base. If that many things need to be done during implementation, you are starting to customize the solution for every customer. This hurts the vendor's ability to scale and make improvements in the future.
Read full review Pros You don't have to worry about different clauses. You can just create them and bundle them based on your Contract. Conga contracts come with great redline and true-up features which makes the negotiation process way easy. You can integrate it with Conga composer to generate the Contract document and also can integrate it with Conga sign to send the generated contract for signature. Read full review Document protection - the Check Out contract feature is a great way to allow external parties to make modifications to contract language without the ability to accept those changes. Those redlines can then be imported back into Emptoris and reviewed or further modified as needed. Notifications & reminders - you can trigger an email manually from within the system, or you can configure automated notifications andreminders to alert users when a new task is received or has aged a given amount of days, etc. Interview wizard - there is a lot of value in the interview wizard. Administrators can configure screens with selecting options via check boxes, radio buttons, or typed-in values. Variables and conditions can be used to selectively populate fields within the contract or apply other options, making for a quick and convenient method to generate contracts conforming to corporate standards. Field customization - administrators can customize a list of options for various fields including contract substatus, address type, and user created business term variables. Approvals - many different options are available to configure approvals to trigger automatically upon presenting and/or executing the contract including specific individuals, one or more approver groups, or based upon various criteria including terms within the contract, type of contract, or the contract's owning organization. Read full review Cons X-author for Word can be improved as it does not maintain a stable connection and the org gets disconnected frequently. It does not support grandparent relationship for merge field population. A separate package needs to be installed for the integration of CPQ and CLM tools from Conga. Read full review Reporting, Emptoris comes with standard reports which can not always can be fit into our business. This needs to be improved. I hope Emptoris is addressing this issue in their latest releases. Though the feature of editing language in MS word is excellent, loading MS word takes time. Read full review Likelihood to Renew Simple and easy to use for the legal team to creates contracts in Salesforce and with the help of conga contract attaches the different clauses through the bundle and sends them for negotiation and for signature. This is the primary work they do from Conga contracts. We had solution which is build using conga contracts, conga composer and conga sign
Read full review There are a lot of new, exciting products coming out in every field and I believe that there is always something better right over the horizon. If it was my choice, I would review my usage of Emptoris and other software periodically to make sure I'm using the most efficient software possible.
Read full review Usability For users, the software is very intuitive. For admins, there's a learning curve.
Read full review Emptoris is a pretty robust tool overall. Learning curve is small and it is simple to use
Read full review Reliability and Availability We never faced any issue till date
Read full review Performance Everything is perfect
Read full review Support Rating Very very difficult to get support. The support team is great for simple, general questions. If we ran into anything complex, we usually would figure it out before they could help us. We often were bounced around from rep to rep
Read full review The above rating for the overall support from Emptoris is for their product / product support, roll out training and refresher training / ongoing training, which is not only good but superior. There is no major or reconizable bad review that can be given to Emptoris at this point in time, from where is stands.
Read full review In-Person Training Conga University is very well made. Loved it!
Read full review Online Training Conga university is best! loved it. The courses are very well designed which made learning easy and great.
Read full review Implementation Rating The process involved Salesforce object creation and fields with installing conga contracts and conga composer and setting up security for the users
Read full review Alternatives Considered Features and Functionality: Conga CLM offers a range of features such as contract authoring, automated workflows, collaboration, version control, reporting, and analytics. It is designed to streamline the entire contract lifecycle. When comparing against other solutions, organizations should assess the specific features and functionalities they require and evaluate how well Conga CLM meets those needs.Scalability: Conga CLM is suitable for large enterprises and organizations dealing with high contract volumes and complex contract processes. It provides the scalability to handle a significant number of contracts, multiple users, and integration with other systems. Organizations should consider the scalability of Conga CLM in relation to their own contract management needs.
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Ariba to be used for the entire lifecycle of Sourcing. From RFX's to cutting PO's. I feel Emptoris misses the boat on the idea of a "One Stop Shop" for all of your Sourcing/Purchasing needs
Read full review Scalability We are fully satisfied with the over all experience using conga contract
Read full review Return on Investment We really never saw a great ROI. We installed and then were left alone for many years despite many calls for help. We were able to get out of a spreadsheet. We did have an approval flow that allowed us to view where in the process each contract was, but the approval flow was also very difficult to manage and was not able to handle complex approval flows. Read full review We won the 2005 Baseline Magazine Award for best ROI related to a technology implementation with an ROI 5544% (see 2005 Baseline ROI Awards, GlaxoSmithkline). We always felt we could do "two times the work, with half the people and deliver double the savings". Read full review ScreenShots