CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
The impact is profound: once plagued by bottlenecks, errors and compliance risks, procurement processes now benefit from real-time visibility into spend, contracts and supplier performance. Automated contract management platforms extract key terms, flag renewal dates and identify opportunities for renegotiation, freeing professionals from repetitive administrative tasks and allowing them to focus on value creation and risk mitigation.
This shift is not just about speed – though cycle times have been slashed by up to 50 % – but also about accuracy, compliance and the ability to anticipate and respond to market changes with agility.
Microsoft’ s AI-powered cloud services are transforming how organisations approach contract management, delivering unprecedented efficiency gains and cost reductions across diverse industries. Through Azure AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot, companies are achieving remarkable results that fundamentally change the contract lifecycle, from creation to execution.
Dramatic efficiency improvements Persistent Systems leveraged Microsoft 365 Copilot to develop ContractAssist, an AI-powered negotiation agent that slashed email volume by 95 % during
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