An introduction to Ariba solutions given at SAP Inside Track 2015 in Wroclaw

1. Ariba in 30 minutes
Radek Kotowicz, Ariba Technology, SAP PL
SAP Inside Track, Wroclaw, 12 Sept 2015

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A bit of history
• Founded in 1996 on the idea to use the Internet to enhance procurement
processes
• Ariba provides "Spend Management solutions" which help companies "analyze,
understand, and manage their corporate spending to achieve cost savings and
business process efficiency."
• Flagship: Ariba Buyer (P2P)
• 2 clients from Fortune 100 before the first release
• 84 clients from Fortune 100 currently >200K using Ariba SaaS
• Competition: Emptoris, GEP, Coupa, Oracle, SAP
• Acquisitions: Tradex (1999), Agile Software (2001), Freemarkets (2004), Procuri
(2007), Quadrem (2010), b-process (2011), SAP (2012)

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What does Ariba do?
5) Invoicing
Invoice Pro
Process
Invoice
4) Purchase
Procure to Order
Request Approve Receive
Ariba
Network
Requisition
Sourcing
Contracts
Purchase Orders
Order Confirmation
Shipping Notices
eInvoices
Invoice Status
Payment Status
Early Payments
catalogs2) Contracting
Contract
Management
Contract
1) Find a supplier (Sourcing/Upstream)
Spend
Visibility
Ariba
Discovery
Ariba Sourcing
Supplier
Information &
Performance
Mgt
Analyze Discover Plan Negotiate Track
Performance
3) Publish
Procurement
Content
Broadcast
catalog
Procure to Pay
6) Payments
Discount
Payment Mgt
Manage
Cash
Ariba
Cloud
Solution
s

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Which way?

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Suppliers in ASN (2000-2012)
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100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
800,000
900,000
1,000,000
2,665 15,918 44,081
77,246
121,017
153,924
179,872 200,305
289,482
351,394
427,868
714,573
1,053,226
1,100,000
Number of
Registered
Members
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Transaction
(USD in millions)$$$
$0.6B $2B
$21B
$43B
$59B
$74B
$101B $99B
$108B
$112B
$135B
$193B
$388B
0

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Suppliers in ASN (2000-2012)
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100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
500,000
600,000
700,000
800,000
900,000
1,000,000
2,665 15,918 44,081
77,246
121,017
153,924
179,872 200,305
289,482
351,394
427,868
714,573
1,053,226
1,100,000
Number of
Registered
Members
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Transaction
(USD in millions)$$$
$0.6B $2B
$21B
$43B
$59B
$74B
$101B $99B
$108B
$112B
$135B
$193B
$388B
0

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Open Platform
Sellers Have Multiple Connectivity Options
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Web Portal
Fax
cXML
 Direct connection with automatic validation for
high-volume suppliers
 Receive orders directly at your fax machine
 Easy to use portal requiring only an Internet
connection
E-mail
 Interface with Ariba using e-mail – receive orders and
route to as many addresses as you need
EDI (VAN)  Interface with Ariba through your VAN
EDI (AS2)  Interface with Ariba using EDI over the Internet
CONNECTION OPTION DESCRIPTION

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Supplier Discovery &
Lifecycle Management,
Strategic Sourcing & Contracting,
Procurement & Order Collaboration,
Collaborative Invoice to Pay
SAP ERP FI
Ariba Integrated Cloud Solutions
Cloud
Solutions
On-Premise
Solutions
Hybrid
Procurement
SAP MM
SAP ERP FI
Sourcing, Contracts, Supplier
Information Performance
Management, Spend Visibility
Ariba
Upstream
On-Premise
Procurement
SAP MM
SAP ERP FI
SAP SRM
PO / Invoice Automation; Ariba
Procurement Content; Discount
Professional, Invoice Professional
Ariba
Network
SAP SD
SAP ERP FI
Supplier Side
Master
Data
Integration
Full Cloud
Procurement
Ariba
Procure-to-Pay

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ARIBA ITK
SIPM Interfaces available for SAP Integration
SAP ECC ARIBA SIPM
SAP PI*
MASTER DATA
VENDOR EXPORT
VENDOR MASTER
MASTER DATA
HTTPS
MAPPING
SUPPLIER MASTER
(VENDOR MASTER)
VENDOR CREATE
VENDOR EXPORT
VENDOR UPDATEVENDOR UPDATE
VENDOR CREATE
FULL/DELTA
SAP
VENDOR UPDATE VENDOR UPDATE
ARIBA Project
Integration
SOAP
SOAP
SOAP
SOAP
SYNCHRONOUSSYNCHRONOUS
*SAP NetWeaver PI is SAP's enterprise application integration software. Other integration software can be used for the customer integration projects.

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Integration technologies
• SAP PI (the new normal for transaction data)
• Tibco (only per-request, deprecated in 9r1)
• Boomi (ASN Connectors: MS Dynamics, Peachtree, Peoplesoft)
• ITK (flat file integration with SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft, many more)

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Typical scenario
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14. Curiosities
• Published WSDL 1.0 with IBM and Microsoft
• Released Ariba Web UI to open source
(marketed as „100x less code than RAILS”)
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Questions?