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Ariba (now SAP Ariba) was founded in 1996 [4] by Bobby Lent, Boris Putanec, Paul Touw, Rob Desantis, Ed Kinsey, Paul Hegarty, and Keith Krach [5] on the idea of using the Internet to enable companies to facilitate and improve the procurement process, which was paper-based, labor-intensive, and inefficient for large corporations.
cXML (commerce eXtensible Markup Language) is a protocol, created by Ariba in 1999, intended for communication of business documents between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and suppliers. cXML is based on XML and provides formal XML schemas for standard business transactions, allowing programs to modify and validate documents without prior knowledge of their form.
In February 2015, Coupa acquired the assets of ZenPurchase, an enterprise procurement software company, [14] as well as acquiring InvoiceSmash, an e-invoicing vendor, [15] and TripScanner, [16] an open booking vendor, in July. [17] On September 24, 2015, Ariba and Coupa settled their lawsuit.
Software configuration management (SCM), a.k.a. software change and configuration management (SCCM), [1] is the software engineering practice of tracking and controlling changes to a software system; part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of configuration management (CM). [2]
SAP Information Design Tool (IDT) SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) SAP Internet Transaction Server (ITS) SAP Incentive and Commission Management (ICM) SAP IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) [1] SAP Jam; SAP Knowledge Warehouse (KW) SAP Manufacturing; SAP Marketing Cloud
SAP SE (/ ˌ ɛ s. eɪ ˈ p iː /; German pronunciation: [ɛsʔaːˈpeː] ⓘ) is a European multinational software company based in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.The company is the world's largest vendor of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.
The software is designed to handle various configurations and behaves predictably in any allowed configuration. The effect of configuration changes on system behavior and performance is predictable and is the responsibility of the ERP vendor. The effect of customization is less predictable.
A configuration management database (CMDB) is an ITIL term for a database used by an organization to store information about hardware and software assets (commonly referred to as configuration items). It is useful to break down configuration items into logical layers. [1]