With all the changes that have been coming, what is the future of the Contract Management Portal?
Is anyone else using this "left-behind" application? Our Asset Management Team still use it for the contract expiry notifications. Until that process is put into FNMS we will likely continue to need to use the application.
Thoughts?
Jason
Apr 11, 2019 03:12 PM
Apr 11, 2019 05:46 PM
My problems with the current notification function:
It really feels like a workaround.
Apr 12, 2019 02:33 AM
I've seen this requirement from few other customers as well. I would recommend to integrate the feature of e-mail notifications into newer versions of FNMS
Regards
Rajesh Ponnala
Apr 18, 2019 03:29 AM
We are using it to register and follow up on software obligations related to contracts, for example if there is an annual report that needs to be sent to a Supplier. It gives a good overview on what is coming and also what has been done. We find the functionality in this Portal good and looking forward to get these functionalities into FNMS GUI as it has been said it will be, eventually.
Apr 12, 2019 01:36 AM
Just to clarify this thread, it is talking about a specialized contract management web portal interface that looks like the following screenshot:
If you use an interface that looks different from this (without the My Tasks, Current Contracts, etc menu options down the left hand side), then you are using something different from what is being discussed in this thread.
Apr 12, 2019 01:47 AM
Apr 12, 2019 07:02 AM
Apr 12, 2019 08:01 AM
I just got a note from our Asset Management Team stating the following;
Although we do mainly use it for contract expiry notifications, we also appreciate the visibility the Dashboard allows us for viewing the information at a quick glance. The Recently Added Documents, Upcoming Expiry, Task features and the rest of the sections are all available current time, so keeping tabs on the contract path is a snap.
Thanks!
Jason
Apr 12, 2019 10:59 AM
Apr 15, 2019 11:12 AM
Hi Suzanne (@shspann),
The contract portal is an unsupported legacy feature. Official support ended with the move to a web UI with FlexNet Manager 2014. Some customer still use it though.
Best regards
Thorsten
Apr 15, 2019 11:47 AM
Do you know where we could find any information on this feature?
Product documentation only goes back to 2014 (FNMS)
Thanks,
Jordan
Apr 15, 2019 02:28 PM
Apr 16, 2019 07:55 AM
@tbesse wrote:
Hi Suzanne (@shspann),
The contract portal is an unsupported legacy feature. Official support ended with the move to a web UI with FlexNet Manager 2014. Some customer still use it though.
Best regards
Thorsten
The contract portal is still fully supported, however is not under active development.
Apr 16, 2019 08:30 AM
Apr 17, 2019 01:46 PM
Hi Jason
I raised this during the Flexera User CAB in 2016....it was said back then that improvements were being considered for 2017 release....still waiting...
The interface for the Contracts Management portal has not changed since version 9.2. The management of the notifications and alerts based on the contract lifecycle dates should be within the main WebUI and not within the "ECMBusinessPortal".
The e-mail alert templates are limited and poor presenting little to no information to e-mail recipient, so I don't use these and instead use a standard contracts view to monitor/manage contracts.
Jens
Apr 18, 2019 05:21 AM
Thanks Jens,
My business partners (Asset Management Team) have found the notifications to be very helpful. They are very concerned that these would go away which is why I continue to keep asking about the functionality making it into FNMS one day.
Jason
Apr 18, 2019 06:42 AM
Has there been any progress on this functionality?
Does anyone know if Flexera One has this functionality?
Aug 04, 2021 06:19 AM
@jaalstead - there hasn't been further focus on adding similar functionality to what was available in the old contract management portal in other Flexera solutions at this point.
It doesn't look like there are many items in this area that have been submitted in Flexera Ideas so far, so feel free to create idea(s) there for specific functional capabilities that would be useful for you. If you do that, I'd suggest adding a note identifying the ideas here so people who find this thread in the future can vote on any ideas that resonate with them.
Aug 05, 2021 08:09 AM