Michael, I understand your questions and concerns regarding the challenges of importing large amount of contracts. This is where Seal (Search Extract And Load) cDiscovery and Analytics specifically addresses these issues and concerns with our enterprise clients, including those that use Ariba as their CLM. Seal Software, a Global Organization, is a unique, out-of-the-box enterprise solution that searches, identifies, extracts and cleanses metadata in contracts (whether it is a PDF, tif, gif, word, etc) providing clear and comprehensive reporting and alerting capabilities while converting all documents into a PDF and making them searchable and will push all data in an organized fusion into Ariba. We have processed over 12,000,000 contracts for more than 100 enterprise companies, including 5 of the Top 10 Banks in the world, as well as several Fortune 100 companies and members of the Big 4. By having this awareness, you have a much more expediency of contract review, fully searchable contract corpus and multi-user access for concurrent edits, lower total processing cost per contract, visibility into procurement savings, and higher levels and awareness of contract intelligence. Its helps to streamline your contract drafting, approval and archiving process, as well as allowing key business managers to manage key milestones and contract obligations.
We have had the software installed and running at times within 18 minutes and results in as little as a week. I would encourage you to sit through a session I can host to see how this works and if it has value to you, which from your questions, I see tremendous value. Please take a look at www.seal-software.com.