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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.
SAP Exchange Infrastructure (XI) (From release 7.0 onwards, SAP XI has been renamed as SAP Process Integration (SAP PI)) SAP Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) SAP FICO; SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation, formerly OutlookSoft) SAP GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) SAP EHSM (Environment Health & Safety Management)
At the peak of the dot-com bubble in March 2000, SAP Ariba acquired Tradex for 19 million shares of Ariba stock, then worth $5.6 billion. [1] The company received 60% of revenue from licensing its software, 30% from support services, and 10% from transaction fees.
However, by the early 2010s it became clear that deeper integration with core business systems was a priority for many buyers. This led Oracle and SAP to align procurement capabilities with their ERP and financial software. [3] But the space was still ripe for new entrants, most notably Coupa in 2007. [4] Ariba was acquired by SAP in 2012. [5]
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 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.
In May, Ariba, a unit of SAP and a competitor of Coupa, filed a lawsuit alleging that Coupa misappropriated Ariba trade secrets. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Also in 2014, the company expanded globally, announcing new operations in Dublin, Ireland.
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]