iMANY CONTRACTSPHERE 7.0

THE INDUSTRY'S ONLY INTEGRATED PLATFORM FOR CONTRACT PERFORMANCE

iMANY® ContractSphere®, the industry’s only integrated platform for contract performance, optimizes the entire contract lifecycle, limits gross to net margin erosion and ensures compliance in today’s heightened regulatory environment. Hundreds of organizations across 21 industries worldwide, including the top 10 Life Sciences companies, depend on iMANY to reveal insights that drive more profitable business relationships by aligning actionable information with revenue-based transactions and improving the way they manage complex commercial and government contract and compliance strategies.

Unlike competitors who rely on a proprietary software stack, with the associated limitations and risks, iMANY ContractSphere is a purpose-built architecture based on open and modular service-oriented framework. Built on a standards-based platform that can be seamlessly adopted within an organizations reference architecture drives ongoing operational savings and long-term investment protection leading to dramatic lowering of total cost of ownership. Leveraging a shared data model and services, best-in-class scalability and performance, high usability and breadth of functionality allows organizations to meet the rapidly growing and evolving needs of contracting and compliance strategies.

By leveraging industry-standard technology that provide a broad range of compatibility and interoperability, iMANY ContractSphere enables rapid access to the latest advancements and best-in-class performance while lowering TCO. Foundational services are based on the de facto Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) specification, resulting in highly portable, interoperable, and scalable technology platform. Other standards and technologies include:

• Platform support for Microsoft Windows 2003 Server; Oracle (Sun) Solaris 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0; SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
• Support for a range of application servers including JBoss, and Oracle (BEA) WebLogic
• Oracle 10g, database management APIs, database linking and polling
• EDI, SOAP, XML, IDoc, and flat file format support
• Java Business Process Management (jBPM) Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) compliance
• SAP JCO client technology, for standard SAP communication transports (SAP ALE:RFC, BAPI, and IDoc)
• EAI and B2B partnerships: IBM, Tibco, webMethods (Software AG)
• Microsoft Office integration for contract authoring
• EMC Documentum integration for content management
• IBM Cognos integration for Business Intelligence
• Qlikview for Contract Analytics
• Google Search Appliance for enhanced enterprise search

The modular design of iMANY ContractSphere delivers solutions that can scale to meet the peaks in current and future data volumes, business process complexity, and concurrent usage. The ability to scale horizontally to support thousands of users and vertically to deliver computing power to handle three millions of rows per hour is achieved by:

• Single-server and multi-server deployments leveraging 64-bit Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and operating systems
• Modular service-oriented design employs multi-threading to efficiently process transactions
• Advanced multi-dimensional data model optimizes data base performance for complex business analytics
• Fast response times in low-bandwidth or high-latency network environments is achieved through network data compression

Integration efforts are streamlined by the inherent web service –orientation and the modular approach enables code reusability and open, standards-based interfaces, transports, and protocols simplifying interoperability and leveraging existing data assets.

iMANY Professional Services offer in-depth integration expertise derived from hundreds of successful deployments. This real-world experience is augmented by collaboration with many solution providers and investments in productizing integration methods and technologies.

As an SAP® certified integration partner iMANY ensures that our solutions truly integrate with SAP® technology. The certified integration reduces solution implementation times; enhances the value of IT investments; and allows for seamless flow of business data, while ensuring data integrity via open interfaces for:

• Bi-directional, real-time native SAP integration technology support including ALE, BAPI, IDoc, and JCO adaptor
• Enterprise Portal (EP) integration
• Exchange Infrastructure (XI) support
• SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) integration
• Data staging and metadata sharing between iMANY Data Mart and SAP BW
• SAP Composite Application Framework compliance

Comprehensive security, data management and I18N (Internationalization) platform services meet the evolving needs of global, multi-division and geographically distributed organizations. Industrial-strength security provides role-based access control, and a highly dynamic security model that can be configured to enforce policies that protect privacy, data integrity, employee productivity, and business continuity. iMANY Master Data Manager creates the system of record for all commercial and government contracting and compliance requirements. To align information with revenue-based transactions, iMANY Data Mart facilitates robust Business Analytics.