Now that the regulatory inquiry period is over, sources close to events (as they say) have confirmed SAP is expected to close its Ariba acquisition next Monday, 8th 1st October (see update at end.) At ...

I was in a plane somewhere over Europe when the news broke that SAP plans to acquire Ariba for $4.3 billion. It answers a couple of nagging questions coming out of SAPPHIRE Now but poses many more.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twenty years ago, procurement was a manual function driven largely by phone calls, faxes and handshakes. Then along came the Internet. And a company named Ariba.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today’s healthcare consumers are more educated and demanding than ever. To meet their expectations requires a well-oiled supply chain. And Emdadat is delivering it.

Ariba is a digital commerce platform born in Silicon Valley during the early days of the Internet. It was acquired by SAP in 2012 for $4.3 billion and is now under the leadership of its newly-named ...

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - March 13, 2017) - OutsideIQ, the leader in investigative cognitive computing, today announced that SAP Ariba will leverage its DDIQ platform as part of its solution aimed ...

For most tech-company CEOs and entrepreneurs, having a platform business model and successfully taking it to scale is stuff of legend. Due to their network effects and ability to create a virtuous ...

Despite the attention the issue has received in the past decade, child labor and modern slavery are still prevalent across the world and in many corporate supply chains. The figures are stark – the ...

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In his keynote at his second Sapphire as CEO of SAP, Christian Klein hailed what he described as the advent of the “world’s largest business network”. At the core of the avowedly “new” network is ...