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.

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.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The race to digitize business is on among companies across the Middle East. And SAP Ariba wants to help them win. The company today announced that it has launched ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAP America is looking to develop "the business network of the future" with the acquisition of cloud-based business commerce network Ariba at the price of $45 per share. That rounds out to roughly ...

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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 ...