Document assembly and contract automation specialists
December 2005
Microsoft uses DealBuilder to generate End User Licence Agreements
Business Integrity is pleased to announce that Microsoft is now using DealBuilder in its Legal and Corporate Affairs department to generate End User License Agreements in multiple languages. The Microsoft LCA department uses DealBuilder integrated with Microsoft SharePoint to streamline the contract lifecycle. This solution allows paralegals or attorneys to answer business questions through an online intelligent questionnaire and generate a standard license agreement. “Like many legal departments, we used a manual process to draft, translate and store our product license terms. This resulted in many resources spent identifying current appropriate license terms, drafting English language license terms and having it localized. Now, with a few clicks and the push of a button our paralegals and attorneys can produce a license agreement with Microsoft’s standard license terms in multiple languages. This is a huge savings in drafting time and localization costs. ” said Chris Breunig, Sr . Attorney, Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs.
Chris continued: "Not only has the use of DealBuilder and SharePoint created efficiencies for the Microsoft legal team, it has also driven improved customer satisfaction. Software license agreements can be complex and difficult to understand. Customers were frustrated with inconsistent provisions across the family of software products. By using this automated process, the legal team can create agreements that are pre-approved, pre-localized, and consistent across products in a timelier manner.”
"When we first started this project we considered building our own solution based on a database of clauses and programs to control the assembly of the clauses into an agreement. However, like the world's leading law firms already using DealBuilder, we came to appreciate the significance of our attorneys being able to work on a single legal master document using only normal legal mark-up notation and Microsoft Word" commented Cathy Clement, Sr Program Mgr Microsoft LCA.
Cathy added, "We evaluated all the online document assembly products. DealBuilder is clearly a generation ahead of anything else available because we don't need programmers to work with our attorneys to create and maintain our automated agreements. In addition to saving development costs, a new version of the automated license is running almost as soon as a lawyer has made a change, without the need for extensive IT testing; a huge advantage in a fast moving business like Microsoft".
Online document assembly is an essential piece of the fast growing Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) market. Giga Research and the Gartner Group project that the CLM market will grow at 40% in 2005, doubling to over $200 million in 2006 and exploding into a $20 billion opportunity by the end of 2007. DealBuilder utilizes the most recent version of Microsoft Word and integrates with both Sharepoint and Outlook. In addition, Business Integrity is working closely with Microsoft to ensure integration with the next version of Microsoft Office as soon as it is released. For more information, please review the Contract Lifecycle Management for Enterprises Using the Microsoft Office System Solution Showcase. (www.microsoft.com/office/showcase)
Business Integrity is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner. Tim Allen, CEO, commented, "We are naturally very proud to have Microsoft as a customer in such a key area of its business. DealBuilder is an outstanding example of Microsoft technology as the foundation of a new generation of enterprise class business applications, previously the preserve of Unix platforms. Business Integrity transformed the document assembly marketplace with the introduction of DealBuilder in 2002. We are looking forward to transforming it again in conjunction with the next version of Microsoft Office".
Click here to see an example of a EULA generated by DealBuilder
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