Great Minds Software, Inc. (GMS) is a privately-held software publisher and consulting firm specializing in Contract Management Software and related services. We build comprehensive contract management solutions using the latest technologies and concepts and provide these solutions to our clients to improve their control of their contract management workload. The key, of course, is to introduce the tools and control mechanisms right where the business relationships actually begin – with the contract itself.

Our clients can be found in all industries, ranging from corporations to government and healthcare organizations. Our solutions are used throughout the world. Our clients

Our team’s experience in the contract management arena began in 1988. Our team has implemented over 500 contract management systems worldwide.

We offer a wide range of expertise in managing the contract process. We offer services, beginning with scanning our clients’ legacy contracts and extracting relevant data, so that when the system is installed there is already a populated database, with populated data fields and attached, searchable scanned images.

We partner with the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) to ensure close relationships with the industry, and have development partner program relationships with both Microsoft and Oracle.

GMS has the vision to provide the best, intellectually stimulating solutions to critical business problems. We make every effort to provide our clients with flexible core products. In addition to having these flexible, feature-rich core contract management systems, we have a number of industry-specific software answers; and we are looking to the future with plans to deliver new, functionally advanced solutions for key industries, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals and biotech firms, government, telecommunications, manufacturing and service organizations, and more. In 2004, we are releasing support systems for Request For Proposal (RFP), Request for Information (RFI) and Request For Quote (RFQ) generation, management and evaluation workflows. We are also looking forward to the exciting introduction of our collaboration tools.

The objective of any contract management system is to reduce costs or enhance revenue. Everything that we do in bringing out new products or enhancements is geared toward that end. We do this by lowering operating costs, improving workflows, identifying critical action dates and giving users sufficient advance warning so that the actions can be management properly.

GMS views its clients as our most important resource. We listen and make our clients effective partners in establishing the requirements to deliver newer and better solutions for their specific industries. We strive to include best practices and best of breed features in our products.

GMS core products offer our clients flexibility in addressing their contract management needs. We allow for different levels of solutions—small to large, simple to complex. We offer multiple platforms to that end. Our clients are given the elasticity of upgrading seamlessly from one platform to the next with no loss of data. We can implement focused, controlled contract management projects, proof the solutions and then expand usage to other parts of the organization.

GMS encourages our clients to scan legacy contracts in volume. We can provide the services of scanning as well as capturing key data to populate the initial contract database. This process can significantly improve data access and management upon implementation and may yield noteworthy cost savings quickly.