For many legal operations teams, the management of the contracts and agreements that their organization are negotiating or have been executed is an encompassing and time-consuming task. This has resulted in specialized tools for Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) have grown steadily in demand over the last decade. Transitioning to such tools can itself be an arduous and costly process and so a logical step would be to augment existing storage solutions. In this paper, we present the analysis of 26 semi-structured interviews with legal operations professionals about their trials and tribulations with using Microsoft SharePoint for contract management. We find that while there is promise, too much of what is needed to be successful requires more technical prowess than might be easily available to those empowered to put it in place.

翻译：对于许多法律运营团队而言，管理其组织正在谈判或已执行的合同与协议是一项涵盖广泛且耗时费力的任务。因此，过去十年来，对合同生命周期管理（CLM）专用工具的需求稳步增长。然而，过渡到此类工具本身可能是一个艰巨且成本高昂的过程，因此一个合乎逻辑的步骤是增强现有存储解决方案。在本文中，我们介绍了对26位法律运营专业人士进行的半结构化访谈分析，探讨他们使用Microsoft SharePoint进行合同管理的经验与困境。我们发现，尽管SharePoint展现了潜力，但成功所需的大部分条件要求具备比责任执行者所能轻松获得的更高技术能力。