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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.
Ariba was acquired by SAP in 2012. [5] Best-of breeds adopted open integration architectures to flexibly connect with a range of back-end systems. While the procurement software market remains divided between integrated and best-of-breed options, there is now greater focus on interoperability and joint go-to-market partnerships across vendors.
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.
SAP S/4HANA is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software package meant to cover all day-to-day processes of an enterprise (for example, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, plan-to-product, and request-to-service) and core capabilities. [1]
In May 2022, Coupa added analysis features to its procurement management software to track Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reductions and how these contribute to supplier sustainability goals. [ 22 ] In December 2022, Thoma Bravo outbid Vista Equity Partners to announce its acquisition of Coupa for $6.15 billion in cash, and a total enterprise value ...
JAGGAER acquired the European direct materials procurement specialist Pool4Tool in June 2017 giving it end-to-end direct as well as indirect materials procurement coverage. [ 11 ] JAGGAER acquired spend management company BravoSolution in 2017, [ 12 ] and entered into a joint venture with United Arab Emirates -based Tejari.
Launched in 2006, SAP Business Suite 7 refers to a group of integrated on-premises business applications. In 2025, SAP Business Suite is an end-to-end suite of solutions offered through a software as a service (SaaS) cloud-based model, uniting AI, data, and cloud applications.
Procure-to-pay (also known as Purchase to Pay (P2P)) is a term used in the software industry to designate a specific subdivision of the procurement process.. The P2P systems enable the integration of the purchasing department with the accounts payable (AP) department.