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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.
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.
Computer systems keep a log of users' access to the system. The term "log" comes from the chip log which was historically used to record distance traveled at sea and was recorded in a ship's log or logbook. To sign in connotes the same idea but is based on the analogy of manually signing a log book or visitor's book.
Configuration status accounting is the ability to record and report on the configuration baselines associated with each configuration item at any moment of time. Configuration audits are broken into functional and physical configuration audits. They occur either at delivery or at the moment of effecting the change.
The point of sale (POS) or point of purchase (POP) is the time and place at which a retail transaction is completed.At the point of sale, the merchant calculates the amount owed by the customer, indicates that amount, may prepare an invoice for the customer (which may be a cash register printout), and indicates the options for the customer to make payment.
SAP Concur (formerly Concur Technologies) is an American software as a service company providing travel and expense management services to businesses. [5] Its headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington. [5]