Now that the regulatory inquiry period is over, sources close to events (as they say) have confirmed SAP is expected to close its Ariba acquisition next Monday, 8th 1st October (see update at end.) At ...

I was in a plane somewhere over Europe when the news broke that SAP plans to acquire Ariba for $4.3 billion. It answers a couple of nagging questions coming out of SAPPHIRE Now but poses many more.

“Evidence is mounting that environmental, social and governance factors can create long-term performance advantages, and in opening access to additional inputs on this front, SAP Ariba can help ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twenty years ago, procurement was a manual function driven largely by phone calls, faxes and handshakes. Then along came the Internet. And a company named Ariba.

For most tech-company CEOs and entrepreneurs, having a platform business model and successfully taking it to scale is stuff of legend. Due to their network effects and ability to create a virtuous ...

Ariba is SAP’s business-to-business (B2B) sourcing and procurement software and buying network. Each day, the cloud-based platform handles billions of dollars’ worth of transactions as enterprises ...

These are indeed unusual times. Yesterday's Ariba Live annual conference, originally scheduled for Las Vegas, inevitably ran as a virtual event due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But what was ...

The Hyperledger Project is useful for getting people together to work on its latest Fabric version 1.0. A case in point is the collaboration between giants SAP Ariba and the diamond tracking ...

What is the purpose of procurement? Not long ago, the answer might have been “to lower costs” or “drive process efficiencies.” But times are changing. Today, many companies are looking to procurement ...