IDG Contributor Network: Icertis partners with Microsoft to take on its Salesforce ecosystem competitors

Late last year there was surprise among commentators and vendors alike as Salesforce announced its acquisition of SteelBrick. SteelBrick is a vendor that offers contract life cycle services. Eessentially what that means is that all of the tasks that sales and procurement organizations need to do their work -- pricing, contract negotiation and workflow -- is offloaded to the SteelBrick platform. It sounds like a boring function, but it's increasingly important as organizations need to move ever-faster on their contract-based operations.

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