Emptoris vs. Tradogram

Any company who needs more monitoring and has frequent contract language changes due to negotiations with parties can utilize the Emptoris Contracts software to a greater extent. Key Business Questions that are answered on Emptoris:

• More clause language.
• Multiple language support
• Maintenance of the contracts during the life cycle.
• Bringing Legacy contracts into new system and its maintenance.
• Monitoring the contract and important remainders based on contract.
• Complex contract approval process due to the business complexity.
• User roles and responsibilities - Privileges.
• Version comparison difficulties.

Many more.. There are good amount of features on Emptoris that can be used, which improves the business process cycle times.

If your business is focused on one specific product or small in scope, Tradogram should be able to suit your needs. If you require simplistic reporting without in depth project codes and details, it does provide basic functionality that is very well suited for small enterprise. Companies that do all of their purchasing with POs will find it to be useful. If you are able to operate without needing it to plug back into a comprehensive ERP system, it should be sufficient.

Incentivized

• It consolidates the budget after invoicing in a summary.
• All your receipts and invoices are managed on one platform.
• It is also a single platform to see all your P50's, P2P and order in one place (statement of work)
• It a good tool for managing projects.

• User-friendly
• Helpful and attentive staff
• Dashboard
• Easy import/export
• Customizable workflow
• Project coding capabilities

Incentivized

• The only thing I would like to see is that is can hold mutiple attachments under the language tab.
• I would like to see a function that allows all credentialing materials to be attached to Emptoris and sent to the next step as one complete package.

Incentivized

• Reporting is really rigid and not customizable (except at an additional fee)
• The API is new and still requires significant work to connect back into our ERP
• Non-PO invoicing is extremely basic and doesn't draw from existing features
• Can take a lot of clicks to get through a task

Incentivized

There are a lot of new, exciting products coming out in every field and I believe that there is always something better right over the horizon. If it was my choice, I would review my usage of Emptoris and other software periodically to make sure I'm using the most efficient software possible.

Incentivized

Emptoris is a pretty robust tool overall. Learning curve is small and it is simple to use

Incentivized

The above rating for the overall support from Emptoris is for their product / product support, roll out training and refresher training / ongoing training, which is not only good but superior. There is no major or reconizable bad review that can be given to Emptoris at this point in time, from where is stands.

Incentivized

We eventually selected Apttus because of its close ties to Salesforce and quick implementation process. We were able to get the application installed and live in just a few weeks. For our purposes, it was a much better fit for us to generate and store contracts for our company without having to force a link to procurement.

Incentivized

We evaluated Procurify as part of our initial scope conversations. Ultimately, we felt that the price point was outside of what we could support and went with the lesser cost of Tradogram instead.

Incentivized

• We won the 2005 Baseline Magazine Award for best ROI related to a technology implementation with an ROI 5544% (see 2005 Baseline ROI Awards, GlaxoSmithkline).
• We always felt we could do "two times the work, with half the people and deliver double the savings".

Incentivized

• The product was priced very well as we made the transition from a homegrown internal system.
• The need to pay to customize the system to do what we need it to do has been cumbersome.
• The API connection back to our ERP system has not been optimal and has required us to engage with outside parties to assure that it is working properly.

Incentivized