Emptoris expands management suite

Emptoris announced an expansion to its supply and contract management solutions, designed to provide agility and actionable insights to companies looking to weather the financial downturn, reports Marketwatch.

The suite expansion was announced at the Emptoris Empower 2008 Conference, a user conferences focused on supply and contract management.

The conference brought together senior executives, supply professionals, and consultants to discuss supply and contract management best practices and strategies for addressing the challenges of an economic downturn.

Washington Consulting has won a $2.3 million contract with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to provide programme management and collaboration software, says Bizjournals.

Under the three-year contract, Vienna-based Washington Consulting will create a Web portal to support the FCC's efforts to track and manage audit data.

The software will provide the FCC with a high level of visibility to audit progress and outcomes or potential risks and issues for successful audit completion.

Selectica will demonstrate its Contract Performance Management software platform at the annual meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel, states TMCnet.

The contract life cycle management solutions provider aims to show attendees how the legal department can use CLM enterprise technology to support compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and to contribute to corporate fiscal performance.

Automated contract management systems by Selectica aim to simplify contract drafting and approval processes, and make it easier to identify and assess risk in contracts in the queue.