Webinar: Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know to Stay Safe in the Cloud

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 | 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST
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Strategic business demands are compelling companies to embrace the cloud and business networks. As businesses move to a cloud environment, information security becomes increasingly central to their overall risk management initiatives.

Please join this webinar to learn about SAP Ariba’s holistic, multidimensional approach to support best practices and security controls to help protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of your information. We’ll share our security principles, including:

• Guarding your data against external and internal risks
• High availability, monitoring, and business continuity
• Effective risk management

Speaker: Lakshmi Hanspal, Chief Security Officer, SAP Ariba

SAP Ariba Gets in Blockchain Game

SAP to join Hyperledger community, SAP Ariba to build new capabilities into applications and Ariba Network to transform global supply chains

LAS VEGAS, NV – March 22, 2017 – Blockchain is among the most disruptive technologies of the day. From banking and insurance to agriculture, energy, healthcare, and media, it is shaking-up entire industries and is about to transform global supply chains, thanks to SAP Ariba. The company today unveiled plans to leverage blockchain across its cloud-based applications and business network to upend the way goods and services are traded.

“Twenty years ago, SAP Ariba bet big on a fringe technology called the Internet and pioneered a totally new model for buying and selling,” said Joe Fox, Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy, SAP Ariba. “True to our roots, we are again investing at the edge of technology to drive innovations in business-to-business collaboration that will change the game.”

At its core, blockchain is a digital ledger that can be used to drive business processes involving multiple parties. “One of the things blockchain does is facilitate greater visibility and trust,” Fox said. “In embedding it across our applications and network, we can enable supply chains that are smarter, faster and more transparent from sourcing all the way through settlement.”

Read more on the Blockchain here | Read full press release here

SAP Ariba: No turning back as procurement goes digital | Procurement | Supply Chain Digital

The new age of digital is fundamentally reinventing business processes, from operations to customer engagement and more. A key driver behind this shift is the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 creating reams of data that allow decision makers to get the information they need, anytime and anywhere.

Accompanying this mass of data, the evolution of advanced analytics is accelerating decision making without any adverse effect on accuracy or performance quality. At the same time, business networks are creating highly efficient levels of collaboration that enhance productivity and generate value from data, regardless of where employees are located.

Procurement professionals have long been the unsung heroes of helping businesses adapt to these changes, tasked with reducing costs and ensuring savings are realised. But the most innovative among them are utilising new technologies like self-service portals, mobile apps and cloud or social collaboration tools to streamline processes, manage spend and simplify traditionally complex purchasing experiences. The end result is empowering buyers to comply with internal policies and best practices, while keeping costs down and raising the strategic value of every purchase.

Procurement organisations are more than comfortable with delivering buying experiences and supply chains that are fast, simple, sustainable, and low risk. But the key target here is to add value to the delivery of services and goods to customers. This is the future of procurement.

SAP Ariba: Read the full article here

SAP Ariba and Mercateo announce "game-changing" spot buy partnership | Procurement | Supply Chain Digital

SAP Ariba and Mercateo have announced a new partnership which will see the companies combine expertise and resources in what is being described as a “game changer” for the spot-buying market.

Combating B2B tail spend is a challenge for all companies with cross-border trade in Europe presenting its own hurdles, particularly when it comes to invoicing.

SAP Ariba’s Tony Alvarez admitted as much and says that Mercateo’s Unite, which is a neutral platform allowing sellers to put up content to show buyers, made it a no-brainer to team up with the German company.

Alvarez, who is a General Manager for SAP Ariba spot buying services said: “When I saw what Mercateo had to offer in terms of the platform, it was a case of ‘guess what I’m looking for!’

Read full article here

SAP Ariba and Samasource join forces to eradicate child exploitation in the supply chain | SCM | Supply Chain Digital

SAP Ariba has teamed up with nonprofit Samasource to ensure that child labor within the supply chain becomes a thing of the past.

The two companies have joined forces to stamp out poverty and drive fair labor practices across global supply chains by leveraging the power of technology and digital networks.

Founded in 2008, Samasource is a nonprofit social enterprise dedicated to lifting people out of poverty by providing training and access to dignified digital work through a process called “impact sourcing”, which is the practice of hiring people at the bottom of the pyramid, giving them access to earning a living wage, allowing them to transform their quality of life on their own terms.

For SAP Ariba, which works with 2.8 million companies in 190 countries worldwide, Samasource seemed like the ideal partner to work with to combat the exploitation of poverty within the supply chain and together they believe they have the transparency to resolve what is being described as "one of the biggest issues in the supply chain today."

Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer of SAP Ariba said: “At SAP Ariba, we firmly believe that one of the most effective ways to eradicate poverty is through free markets.

"Collectively, the Global 2000 spend $12 trillion on goods and services annually. These companies – more than 75 percent of which are connected to the Ariba Network - have the buying power to ensure they provide fair labor practices across their supply chains. And this is exactly what we, in collaboration with Samasource, hope to inspire them to do.

Read full article here

News: SAP Ariba a Leader in eProcurement

SAP Ariba has been ranked as a leader in eProcurement by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc. in a new report titled “The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement, Q2 2017,” (The Forrester Wave™: eProcurement, Q2 2017, Forrester Research, Inc., May 2017).

Designed to assess the current state of the market for eProcurement solutions, the Forrester Wave evaluated 12 Procurement software vendors using 30 criteria. SAP Ariba received among the highest scores for:

• Globalization
• Corporate strategy
• Market presence, including installed base and market share of new deals

The company was also recognized for providing a comprehensive spend management suite, continued investments in functionality for indirect categories and a shifted focus on direct materials.

Read full news article here

Ariba Network grows; SAP PartnerEdge provides new path to cloud

Ariba Network grows; SAP PartnerEdge provides new path to cloud: "The Ariba Network is growing rapidly, and this in turn is helping to fuel growth in some of the companies that participate in it. SAP reports that nearly 1,300 new sellers per day joined the Ariba Network in the second quarter of 2016, and that more than 2 million companies are now connected and doing more than $2.5 billion in business every day." - Read more here...

Ariba President Alex Atzberger on the Future of Commerce | Ariba LIVE 2015 Munich

Alex Atsberger, President of Ariba, dives into the value and power of the network and Ariba's goal of becoming the world's digital commerce network through collaboration with SAP. See what can come from a global, collaborative network and how you can be a part of it, too. 

SAP's Arbia to Simplify Direct Materials Procurement - June 15, 2016 - Zacks.com

NEWS: SAP's Arbia to Simplify Direct Materials Procurement - June 15, 2016 - Zacks.com: "Leveraging on the competence of Arbia Network, the Ariba Collaborative Sourcing Professional can easily connect with ERP and execution systems which will eventually bring efficiency gains and savings for clients. It will help business enterprises better connect with people, processes and indentify information procurement needs, thereby perfecting their sourcing activities. Some of the notable benefits of the Ariba Collaborative Sourcing Professional include the speeding up of product launches, improved tracking of item costs across time and contract compliance. Procurement, a crucial part of effective supply chain management, requires coordination of multiple high quality components sourced at low cost to allow smooth running of business organizations."

CONFERENCE: SAP Ariba Live Rolls On - August 29 in Singapore | Business Wire

SAP Ariba Live Rolls On | Business Wire: "PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SAP Ariba Live is on the move again. On the heels of sold-out events in Las Vegas and Madrid, the premier global commerce conference is headed for Singapore. The three-day show – which is the first-ever to be held in Asia - kicks off August 29 at the Marina Bay Sands."

Develop Your Procurement Roadmap with SAP and Ariba

If you spend all your time just keeping up with day-to-day procurement demands and processes, with little-to-no time to focus on sourcing strategy and driving innovation, watch this short video.

You'll gain some insight into how SAP and Ariba can provide you with a road-map for your procurement future, one in which you're streamlining processes, saving money, and accessing a whole new world of suppliers, partners, and cloud solutions that can help you strategize and innovate in the days ahead. 

SAP Ariba powers Al-Futtaim to improve procure-to-pay efficiency

SAP Ariba powers Al-Futtaim to improve procure-to-pay efficiency:

SAP said Al-Futtaim Group has tapped Ariba to improve procure-to-pay efficiency.

On April 8, Al-Futtaim will discuss how it is leveraging Ariba business network to fuel an automated procure-to-pay process that delivers game-changing improvements during an interactive breakout session at Ariba LIVE, the premier business commerce event being held April 7–9 at The Venetian in Las Vegas.

“We needed to gain better visibility into and control over our spend,” said Asad Zaidi, director of Procurement and Performance Improvement, Automotive Division, Al-Futtaim. “And we knew that in order to achieve this, we’d need to automate our operations.”