LinkSquares vs. SAP Ariba Contracts

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LinkSquares
Score 8.1 out of 10
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LinkSquares headquartered in Boston offers a contract management solution featuring AI-driven analytics, metadata extraction, and secure contract centralization and repository.N/A
SAP Ariba Contracts
Score 8.1 out of 10
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SAP Ariba Contract Management is software that helps legal, finance, procurement, and sales operations professionals tasked with driving contract management to manage all types of agreements, including procurement, sales, and internal contracts. The vendor says that with SAP Ariba Contract Management, companies can develop best-value agreements by addressing the two major components of the contract lifecycle: • Contract Management from contract request, contract authoring, workflows…N/A
Pricing
LinkSquaresSAP Ariba Contracts
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LinkSquaresSAP Ariba Contracts
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
LinkSquaresSAP Ariba Contracts
Contract Authoring
Comparison of Contract Authoring features of Product A and Product B
LinkSquares
8.1
3 Ratings
2% below category average
SAP Ariba Contracts
8.4
9 Ratings
1% above category average
Contract creation8.01 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Contract templates8.01 Ratings8.56 Ratings
Clause library/saved fields7.63 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Guided logic9.02 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Contract Collaboration
Comparison of Contract Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
LinkSquares
6.3
1 Ratings
28% below category average
SAP Ariba Contracts
7.7
8 Ratings
8% below category average
Contract sharing8.01 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Collaborating on contracts5.01 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Approval process6.01 Ratings7.18 Ratings
Contract editing00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
MS Word plug-in00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Interdepartmental workflows00 Ratings5.17 Ratings
Contract Monitoring
Comparison of Contract Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
LinkSquares
9.0
3 Ratings
5% above category average
SAP Ariba Contracts
9.1
10 Ratings
7% above category average
Contract database9.33 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Contract search9.03 Ratings9.510 Ratings
Contract milestone reminders & alerts8.73 Ratings9.59 Ratings
Custom contract reports9.33 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Tracking contract status8.52 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Compliance check00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
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User Ratings
LinkSquaresSAP Ariba Contracts
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
9.9
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(3 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(3 ratings)
6.6
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
LinkSquaresSAP Ariba Contracts
Likelihood to Recommend
LinkSquares
This is an excellent contract repository. I like the ability to upload a pdf, which is read by LinkSquares' OCR. The fidelity of the searchable documents is extraordinary. I really like the flexibility in terms of what contract language you want reporting on and the reporting capabilities are second to none.
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SAP
SAP Ariba Contract Management contract management is well suited for complex service engagements as it can adapt to any level of complexity, and it provides flexibility to incorporate different milestones and pricing terms For simple and low-value contracts, it is too advanced as few of the elements cannot be skipped, making it more complex.
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Pros
LinkSquares
  • It's intuitive.
  • It's easy to use.
  • The AI program is accurate.
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SAP
  • SAP Ariba has Ariba Supply Chain Network that makes Suppliers/Vendors/Buyers onboarding very easy. Ariba Contract Management is very well integrated with Ariba network and hence sharing contractual documents and information are very easy.
  • SAP Ariba provide integration with SAP ERP which takes out the effort needed to integrate Ariba with SAP.
  • Ariba exposes API and ITK to do integration if your ERP is none SAP.
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Cons
LinkSquares
  • The search function doesn't work if there's a misspelling.
  • The tagging function isn't always smooth.
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SAP
  • the numbering is limited to contract workspace or CW#, if it is used to RFP, numbers can be RFP# and not CW#
  • for extension, it is nice to have a alphanumeric than numeric only
  • contract term attributes does not need to have an email recipient , the budget owner & issuer are the email recipients
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Usability
LinkSquares
Very easy to use 'out of the box'. Excellent customer support to help when something out of the ordinary is needed.
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SAP
Based on its stability as a leading procurement solution, SAP Ariba Contract Management's contract management provides enhanced efficiency with the ability to build templates to suit your needs, enhanced contract authoring that provides efficiency in the process with digital signature is a perfect tool, any organization would like to have.
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Support Rating
LinkSquares
I haven't had a ton of support needs, honestly. We have just a couple of users and we haven't needed much support. I do know that if I ever need anything, that I have an account manager there to help and they have always ben very responsive to my needs
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SAP
Overall support has been reasonable with SAP Ariba Contract Management, however, I would have preferred localized support as it will have a better connection in the EMEA region.
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Alternatives Considered
LinkSquares
I compared LinkSquares to a number of other tools and found LinkSquares to be right-sized and flexibly priced for our use case.
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SAP
This was the program that our vendors selected so we have used this one. I had a client that used Beeline but that felt clunky compared to SAP Ariba Contract Management. You had a lot more hoops to jump through with Beeline. SAP Ariba Contract Management definitely is easier to use
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Return on Investment
LinkSquares
  • Better contract reporting.
  • Easily searchable contract database.
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SAP
  • Easier contract management means less time focused on looking for information and more time negotiating.
  • Alerts on contract expiration which allows you to negotiate on time.
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