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SumTotal Systems Case Study: Ariba, Inc.

Founded in 1996, Sunnyvale, California's Ariba, Inc. makes software that, among other things, helps companies assess, capture and reconcile spending. As Ariba grew, its management team wanted to identify the organization's strengths and weaknesses, particularly among its sales and consulting staff. With newly acquired staff and solutions added to Ariba's...

Tags: SumTotal Systems, Ariba Inc., Consulting, Outsourcing, Sales Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Sales

Case studies 2007-11-20

Ariba Spend Management for the Public Sector

Ariba Spend Management enables public sector users to automate and expedite all their sourcing and procurement activities. Integration of analysis, sourcing, supplier selection, contract management, purchasing, and invoicing procedures into a spend management system makes the entire purchasing process more efficient. Whether sourcing or purchasing items such as information technology,...

Tags: Sourcing, Ariba Inc., Ariba Spend Management, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2004-12-29

Ariba Spend Management for the Pharmaceutical Industry

Ariba Spend Management solutions allow pharmaceutical companies to automate and streamline every step in the sourcing and procurement process; from spend analysis to negotiation to supplier selection to payment. Procurement and sourcing professionals can source more categories, build closer relationships with key suppliers, and negotiate more advantageous contracts. Whether for...

Tags: Sourcing, Ariba Inc., Industry, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2004-12-29

Centralized Management and RF Security Moves Ariba to Aruba

At Ariba, the world's leading provider of enterprise commerce software systems, nearly every new employee is presented a laptop with integrated Wi-Fi. So for Ariba's IT department, building an enterprise-class Wi-Fi infrastructure wasn't an option. Ariba needed to cost-effectively rollout 802.11a+b/g services campus-wide to a technically-savy community of more than...

Tags: Ariba Inc., Aruba Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless

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Spend-Management Leader Ariba Buys Into HP Server Solutions

Ariba is a leading provider of electronic procurement solutions. The company's technology offerings help companies analyze, understand, and manage their expenditures for greater cost savings and increased business process efficiency across the enterprise. With its business growing steadily, Ariba needed to upgrade its development hardware infrastructure, improve performance, and alleviate...

Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Ariba Inc., Spend-Management Leader Ariba, Purchasing & Procurement, Operational Planning, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware

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Additional Resources

SalesView from InsideView: feature or product?

  I've had several conversations with InsideView in an effort to understand how its recently released SalesView product fits into the scheme of enterprise applications. Described as leveraging the convergence between social media and enterprise applications, SalesView is designed to provide sales people with fine grained information...

Tags: CRM, SalesView, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-21

On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 service

Coupa will launch an on-demand e-procurement software suite on Monday that is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Web service. For those keeping score at home that makes the Coupa suite an on-demand service running on an on-demand service. The launch also makes Coupa one of Amazon's early corporate...

Tags: Software, SLA, Software-as-a-service, E-procurement, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Service, Coupa, Enterprise Class Uptime, Purchasing & Procurement, Service Level Management, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-19

SAP spend management product in disarray

Spend management expert and fellow Irregular Jason Busch has the skinny but it seems SAP is planning to can SRM 6.0 for those customers not already in the release 6.0 ramp program. SRM 6.0 is also known as SRM 2007. This is a disaster for SAP and opens a 12...

Tags: SAP AG, Jason, SRM, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-10-19

Ketera tames the supply chain's long tail

One area of opportunity for SaaS vendors that can help them differentiate themselves from their on-premises rivals is the ability to offer services that combine software with other shared resources. It's often the case that software alone falls short of a complete solution to a business pain point, and needs...

Tags: Long Tail, Supply Chain, Supplier, Ketera, Supplier Connect, Channel Management, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-10-10

Contract Life-Cycle Management Attracts New Entrants

CIOs and their business partners are increasingly looking for Contract Life-cycle Management CLM solutions for all of their businesses' contracts, even if they deploy them in stages for buy-side contracts first and later for sell-side contracts. The result? A fast-growing (21% CAGR from 2003 to 2008), fragmented (with at least...

Tags: Contract Lifecycle Management, Oracle Corp., Vendor

White papers 2007-08-10

The Forrester Wave: eProcurement Solutions, Q2 2007

eProcurement solutions play a key role in improving purchasing processes in enterprises through automating requisitions and purchase orders for goods and services, decentralizing buying, connecting to suppliers directly, and improving employee compliance with preferred supplier policies. Using a combination of vendor surveys, product demos, and client references, Forrester evaluated 14...

Tags: E-procurement, Supplier, Forrester Research Inc., Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing

White papers 2007-04-20

Google Heath, what is it?

Google Heath, what is it?pretty oddit strikes me as odd that i see no accredited school of architecture on this man's resume. there are certain legal requirements that must be completed before one can claim that title, and i'm not so sure this gentleman qualifies.Heath or Health?Is it Google...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Google Scholar, doc, RFID tag, Google Search, Google Inc., health care, Google Health

Discussion threads 2006-03-19

What big enterprises want from on-demand vendors

Large enterprises are just as interested in on-demand applications as smaller companies, but providers have to package them to suit their requirements. That's the thinking behind the Enterprise SaaS Working Group, set up last month to spread the word about software-as-services to large organizations. The group's four charter members are...

Tags: RightNow Technologies, on-demand

Blog posts 2005-08-26

Enterprise product roundup from Demo

Demo included a number of new and recycled enterprise products worth mentioning. Real Software rolled out REALbasic 2005, a new RAD tool aimed at Visual Basic  and Java developers that creates native cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Mac) code.  CEO Geoff Perlman described it as an object-oriented software design environment that can deliver enterprise-class...

Tags: Demo

Blog posts 2005-02-16

Software-as-a-service: Phase II

Martin LaMonica has a report on how IBM is gearing up its hosted services to deliver applications via the Internet. After the success of companies like salesforce.com and Web portals, IBM figures that the move to software-as-a-service is poised for growth. Of course, IDC thinks so, too--the research firm predicts...

Tags: infrastructure-as-a-service, IBM Corp., software

Blog posts 2005-01-27

Saks Automates Purchasing With Advanced e-Procurement System

Saks Incorporated purchases more than $900 million in non-retail merchandise from more than 5,000 suppliers, which can be an inefficient and costly process. Saks wanted to automate its manual system with an Internet-based e-procurement system that would simplify purchasing, facilitate new business processes and save money. IBM provided an on-demand...

Tags: Saks Inc., E-procurement, Supplier, IBM Corp., Saks, Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Business Operations, Marketing

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