Kairos

Accelerate your time to alpha with automated processes and streamlined stakeholder communication.

Kairos, our best of breed content and workflow management solution, is designed to streamline sourcing, procurement, and vendor management functions allowing you to accelerate alpha and operate more efficiently.

  • Enable comprehensive search across in-house and third-party data sources with our robust catalog capable of connecting to vendor APIs, uploading your own content, or adding new services when you’re out scouting the next generation of alpha generating data.

    Fully configurable watchlists & automated alerts, track usage rights, user documentation, and so much more . . .

  • Streamline processes and increase efficiency with automated workflows. Set predetermined flightpaths for certain request types or configure systematic interactions across your data team, procurement, legal, compliance, IT, business users and accounts payable, as needed. Users can manage their tasks by priority, due date, or any number of other criteria. And when it comes time for renewal, have your tickets automatically created so you never miss an important date.

  • Keep track of all your important interactions across the teams you support and the vendors who supply you with data. Create custom profiles outlining your users’ coverage and preferences. Manage vendor service issues, support procedures, product follow-ups, negotiations, and other activities with our customizable solution tracking interactions across phone, email, and in-person meetings. Operate natively in Kairos or through our Outlook plug-in.

  • Centralize your contracts and due diligence questionnaires as well as all the metadata about key terms, rights management, vendor risk ratings, approvals/rejections, and criteria around due diligence reexaminations. Track the latest vendor news for any adverse information which may affect your risk rating. Integrated with our workflow and automated tasks, use our preconfigured templates or customize to your own preferences.

  • Drive cost savings and optimize your inventory by utilizing a data-driven approach to vendor negotiations. Incorporate both quantitative and qualitative user feedback over time, categorizing responses across quality, service, support, returns and more. Compare feedback across groups and against competing products to enhance your contract terms and conditions or eliminate redundant services. Extensive inventory? Have users periodically certify each service is still in use and valuable. When it comes time for renewal, poll users automatically instead of chasing emails.

  • Ensure everyone is on the same page and drive more efficient and impactful collaboration utilizing our system to note important service information and activities, onboarding or renewal status, data access location, issue resolution, sample code and trial results, task assignments, and so much more.

  • Utilize our BI and reporting functionality to understand your data landscape. Track performance and user, team, or category spend trends, compare similar services and service feedback, benchmark across teams, examine pipelines and onboarding cycle times, prepare for renewal activities, schedule automated reports for consistent operational metric meetings – The data you need presented in the way to drive insightful decision-making.

With Kairos, all of these impactful capabilities are available behind your firewall, removing intellectual property leakage concerns and enabling integration with core apps like single sign-on and active directory as well as data from your HR and accounting systems.

Contact Us to schedule your demo and see how Kairos can help level-up your data management capabilities.

Exploit Kairos Across the Data Life-Cycle

Catalog & Discovery

In-House Data & External Catalogs

• Full Metadata Array

• Predefined & Custom Fields

• Documentation & Attachments

• Location, Access, & Usage  Rights

• Public & Private Notes

• Collaborate with Stakeholders

• Robust Search

• Create Watchlists, Filters & Alerts

• Compare Services

Onboarding Workflow

• Initiate Requests

• Gather & Manage Information

• Vendor Outreach

• Procurement / Negotiations

• Due Diligence Process

• Facilitate Legal Contracting

• Business Approvals

• IT Engagement

• Inventory Updates

Ongoing Data Management

• Manage Renewals & Cancellations

• Monitor Inventory & Spending Trends

• Conduct User Feedback Polling

• Certify End User Inventory

• Track Service Issues

• Understand Vendor Performance

• Monitor Vendor News

• Track Request/Ticket Cycle Times

• Manage Contracts and DDQs

• Digital Rights Management