This was loosely defined at first but manifested itself by a focus on new user experience/interface, diversity and cognitive features in the product suite. The big theme of the conference general sessions was purpose. The conference was divided into two main parts: the general keynote sessions, which focused more on the future and big themes, and the breakout sessions and conference floor, which focused more on current capabilities and the nuts and bolts.

Old to New Ariba Solution Map And Now for the Main Event Barry Padget, SAP Ariba President on stage at Ariba Live 2018. Here is a summary table of the newly labeled modules so you can follow along with the below points: Although this somewhat necessary, it has caused confusion with customers and prospects who are now playing catch up to understand the new terms.

As part of the above integration, Ariba changed all product names last year to simply their offering and align with SAP terminology.

Ariba Connect support platform) was re-engineered for scalability. The rest of the energies have been spent on typical post M&A integration of the group into the SAP structure and culture and ensuring the surrounding infrastructure (ie. However, based on my observations and many conversations I’ve had, I estimate that the actual time they’ve been hard at work on product development has only been 2-3 years. They have therefore been part of the SAP ecosystem for just over 5 years.

Ariba was officially acquired by SAP in the fall of 2012.

Here is what Ariba has in the hopper for 2018: First, A Bit of Contextīefore diving into the focus for Ariba Live 2018, it is important to highlight a few key contextual points: Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua, etc) have arrived at this holy grail just yet but that we are coming increasingly closer. It is my pretension that none of the top vendors (ie. It is an exciting time in the e-procurement space as the top vendors continue to make key acquisitions and develop features in the quest to provide solution suites that cover the full spectrum of procurement activities (whether that be in the direct and/or indirect space). As is required by what seems to be tech giant tradition, Ariba held their annual conference this week in Las Vegas to update all onlookers on what they could expect from the cloud procurement solution provider in the coming year.

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