CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

Legal teams using AI-powered solutions have cut contract processing time by more than

according to Gartner

OpenAI Service to streamline the entire business development lifecycle for government contracting companies, while ECS Federal uses AI Builder in Power Automate to automate project performance analysis through the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System.

In the legal sector, Relativity’ s aiR for Review, built on Azure OpenAI Service, exemplifies how Microsoft’ s technology is revolutionising legal workflows. The solution accelerates e-discovery processes, investigations, contract reviews and data breach responses, providing attorneys with powerful tools to organise data and enhance their case knowledge.

Gaming the system: how Xbox transformed its contract management It’ s not just external support that Microsoft has offered. It also supports its own in-house brand Xbox, which operates under its gaming division.

The tools Xbox has used have helped its team when handling the process of onboarding games onto its ecosystem, making it available for people to purchase. Xbox uses AI to help automate its most frequent contract types, transforming a manual process which included non-digitised templates and redundant data entry across multiple systems.

This was consuming 1,800 hours annually. The creation process was more than just time consuming, it could also be error prone and lead to significant delay in the onboarding of new content, which impacted service level agreements.

114 August 2025