Organizations continue to face today’s competitive markets and financial realities. The pressure to improve performance requires improvement in managing the company in all areas including the creation and management of contracts. The average corporation maintains over 4,000 active contracts managed in traditional methods. Under pressure to increase transparency, manage risk, and ensure compliance, many companies are looking to transform their contract operations processes. Typically, while organizations maintain stringent procedures and quality standards for products and distribution processes, attempts to enforce consistency falls short. A key contributing to improving performance can be found in Contract Management Software. CM software automates the contracting process from contract creation and negotiation through monitoring. A proactive contract management solution can assure meeting the company business goals through increase compliance rates, reduce revenue leakage, and improve overall contract performance. CM software can be used to manage the contract life cycle from identification of a need through negotiation, agreement, monitoring, & renewal.