ariba in comment and analysis
Leader: E-procurement - remember it, it's now with us
Leader A contract win today for Ariba (yes, they're still around, cast now as a 'spend management solutions provider') is instructive. On one hand, Ariba's customer du jour, O2, comes out with the heartening news that it is looking towards procurement... [18 Aug 2004]
Leader: How much do you spend?
Leader Admittedly the survey was sponsored by e-procurement company Ariba, which rather handily claims to have a solution to the problem, but the company, along with the London Business School says it is a business process issue that first needs to be... [10 Mar 2004]
Analysis: E-procurement back on the agenda
Comment Sourcing and procurement software revenues also went into freefall - dropping 28 per cent and 23 per cent in 2002 and 2001 respectively according to Gartner - leaving the supply chain and e-procurement companies such as Ariba, CommerceOne and i2... [24 Feb 2004]
Inside Ariba: A vendor dossier
Comment When Ariba eventually repositioned itself as a provider of enterprise spend management (ESM, if you must) software under the guidance of Calderoni, the general feeling among staff at Ariba's Sunnyvale HQ was good riddance - no one ever understood... [19 Mar 2002]
Supplier and buyer: Can you profit from e-sourcing?
Comment For all the stick Ariba et al have had thrown at them you have to admire their resilience. Kate Hanaghan recently did just that and here she describes the inner workings of a vendor which badly wants to step out of shadows still cast by Ariba and... [28 Feb 2002]
Has Commerce One backed itself into a corner?
Comment Take Commerce One and Ariba, rivals often mentioned in the same breath. But little more than a year ago Commerce One stood tall with its then fellow B2B star Ariba. At least Ariba has walked away from e-marketplaces and is repositioning itself as a... [24 Jan 2002]
Ariba Factfile
Comment The Ariba Spend Management Suite - Product suite released in September 2001 to herald Ariba's change of direction. Ariba e-forms Ariba Travel & Expenses Ariba Marketplace - Ariba's original B2B offering. [31 Dec 2001]
Re:Viewing 2001: Overview
Comment B2B vendors such as Ariba, Commerce One, i2 and marketplace enablers used to be such hot property. They are wrong, of course. In a year as difficult as 2001 we'd prefer to think about the industry growing up. [21 Dec 2001]
Is there more to PeopleSoft than internet-everything?
Comment PeopleSoft has recently been joined by Ariba in the enterprise software sector. Ariba is so closely associated with the boom and bust of the B2B bubble it has decided it is now a 'spend management' company. [26 Nov 2001]
John Lamb's Week: Summer's over - let the conferences begin
Comment Described as its biggest product announcement of the year, software company Ariba will be taking the wraps off an e-procurement tool called Sourcing 3.0. Whatever a blue arsed fly is you'll need to be one to keep up with this week's agenda. [14 Sep 2001]
Dazed and confused: Understanding the B2B monster
Comment While Commerce One has a strong ally in SAP the failure of Ariba's Agile deal left many industry watchers speculating Ariba's offering is simply not rounded enough, and Gartner Group has issued a report doubting the company's long term survival. [24 Aug 2001]
When in trouble, throw a senior exec out on his ear
Comment Ariba has done it - on more than one occasion, i2 has done it and now Commerce One is at it. At an Ariba user conference earlier this summer, then CEO Larry Mueller unveiled Ariba's value chain management strategy. [15 Aug 2001]
Avaya: From PBXes to CRM?
Comment Larson is excited at rumours of a merger between Siebel and B2B player Ariba. While Siebel has declined to comment on the speculation and Ariba has firmly denied it, he welcomes the new customers it would bring. [14 Jun 2001]
B2B: Not so nimble after all
Comment We know everyone in technology is being squeezed but analysts, and Ariba themselves, claim to have been taken aback by the profit warnings and the job cuts. Many are surprised Ariba has done quite so badly because it was thought that companies... [03 Apr 2001]
Getting results - everybody's talking at me...
Comment Although no giant, Ariba went into the black for the first time this week showing that the sun is definitely rising for the e-marketplace enablers. No one can be left in any doubt that the PC market has suffered. [19 Jan 2001]
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