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News Whereas rival Ariba was able to jump into web services relatively quickly, Hudson said, it was too hard for Commerce One to change perceptions. Software maker Commerce One is considering bankruptcy and even a complete shutdown, according to a... [24 Sep 2004]
Ariba helps O2 save millions in procurement costs
News O2 is claiming to have saved around £4.5m in procurement costs since spring this year after implementing sourcing software from Ariba. The mobile operator says it is happy with the savings it has made - one of its first e-auctions in March, for... [18 Aug 2004]
DoJ witnesses say competition is limited
News In the second week of the trial, Richard Cichanowicz, vice president of business systems integration at wireless provider Nextel Communications, said his firm began to explore consolidating the company's business applications needs with one vendor... [15 Jun 2004]
Internal power battles causing costly spending "black holes"
News The third annual European Spend Agenda survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne for e-procurement company Ariba and the London Business School, found that a lack of a central and board-level purchasing function is leading to a scattered - and costly... [10 Mar 2004]
Ariba treats itself with $493m purchase of FreeMarkets
News E-procurement company Ariba has announced it will acquire supply management software firm FreeMarkets for $493m in cash and stock. Bob Calderoni, CEO of Ariba, said in a conference call that FreeMarkets' services-based sourcing and supply... [23 Jan 2004]
Ariba splashes out for hosting company
News Software maker Ariba plans to purchase hosting services partner Alliente, a move that would follow other business application companies in experimenting with new delivery models. Ariba announced on Wednesday its intention to buy Alliente, a... [08 Jan 2004]
Customers exercising buying power in weak economy
News A survey of 100 procurement directors from European companies by purchasing software firm Ariba found 81 per cent review terms every six months instead of three to five years. Cleone Robst, head of UK marketing for Ariba, said: "That needs to be... [06 Jan 2004]
5 years ago... Ellison offers Gates a $1m stakes duel
News These best-of-breed competitors - Ariba, Commerce One and i2 - are in the process of vanishing. 17.11.98: Oracle chief executive, Larry Ellison, used his Comdex keynote address to poke fun at Microsoft's database application strategy. [17 Nov 2003]
BA tech plans to save £300m
News BA has already achieved IT-specific savings of over £50m as part of its IT21 programme but the rollout of the spend management suite from Ariba will cut procurement costs by automating manually intensive processes. [29 Jul 2003]
Ellison: There's a scarcity of information at the dawn of the information age
News He counted business application makers Ariba, Commerce One and Siebel Systems among such companies. Mocking Ariba, Ellison said the company developed an application so simple that "two cats could have written it". [15 Nov 2002]
Sun makes web services U-turn
News These companies include Ariba, Cisco Systems, Iona Technologies, KPMG International, Novell, Reed Business Information, Reuters, Tibco, VeriSign and WebMethods. Sun Microsystems has announced it plans to join the Web Services Interoperability... [25 Oct 2002]
BT's billion pound ecommerce pledge
News Ariba once touted itself as an e-marketplace specialist and made nearly all of its money from the business, but now calls itself an "enterprise spend management" company and only gets around 20 per cent of its revenues from that source. [15 Oct 2002]
Commerce One lays off another third
News E-marketplaces never materialised the way companies like Commerce One, Ariba and VerticalNet had predicted. By Alorie Gilbert Ebusiness software maker Commerce One said on Friday that it plans to cut 400 jobs, or 36 per cent of it staff, by the end... [07 Oct 2002]
Top 10 deals of the month - June
News AXA goes with Ariba Supplier: Ariba Customer: Department of Health Suppliers: Shortlist - BT, EDS, IBM, Siemens and Sema Value: £5bn Technology: computerise patient records, appointment booking and prescriptions http://www.silicon.com/a53909 [03 Jul 2002]
UK businesses are failing to work online
News According to B2B vendor Ariba the level of business conducted electronically in the UK is falling well short of a 20 per cent target set by analysts. Conducting your business electronically might be the best way to cut costs in these difficult... [13 Jun 2002]
