Hoss Hostetler, a senior service engineer in Xbox, worked with the Microsoft Digital team to help improve and automate Xbox’ s contract management process. Which led to the team saving over 1,600 hours, resulting in 88 % time savings in the contract generation process, reducing the time it takes for these contracts from 1,800 hours to just 158 hours annually.
“ The amount of business impact and return on investment that we’ ve been able to deliver by partnering with the Microsoft Digital team has been outstanding,” says Hoss.
“ The ability to automate initial contract generation from configured templates through to sending out signatures and getting notified of fully signed contracts via application programming interfaces( APIs) has been absolutely gamechanging for our team.”
With Xbox so encouraged by these results, it is already looking to extend the solution to automate two more of its standard contracts – which it hopes will lead to an additional 600 plus hours saved per year.
“ Our collaboration with Xbox showcases the effectiveness of this
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