Ariba Visibility Solutions - Enterprise

A crucial component of any visibility solution is spend-focused, analytical technology that business users can access with ease. Ariba Analysis helps decision makers accelerate bottom-line results by identifying and quantifying all opportunities-enabling effective prioritization of spend management activities. Designed by and for purchasing professionals, Ariba Analysis provides continuous visibility into suppliers and buyer performance as well as spend, procurement and sourcing processes.

Ariba Analysis is business-ready, J2EE compliant, and compatible with most databases, application servers and hardware platforms. When integrated with Data Enrichment or other Ariba applications, it offers a flexible dashboard that promotes seamless control over the combined system. Ariba Analysis can be delivered as installed software behind your firewall, as a hosted application, or as part of an Ariba managed service solution.

When amassing company-wide data for analysis, many organizations face an unanticipated problem: poor-quality data. Decision makers can draw few, if any, useful conclusions from data characterized by multiple commodity taxonomies, cryptic descriptions, blank fields, and inconsistent supplier naming. Ariba Data Enrichment promotes comprehensive, accurate spend data analysis by extracting granular details about products and services, classifying them according to logical taxonomies, and enriching supplier information.

Ariba Data Enrichment represents a highly automated, repeatable process that enables your organization to achieve:

Ariba Data Enrichment is enterprise ready, J2EE compliant, and compatible with most databases, application servers and hardware platforms. It can integrate with everything from flat files (CSV, XLS) and XML (iAccel, Commerce, Commerce XML) to Ariba Analysis, which in turn integrates with various ERP and other back-end systems. We deliver Ariba Data Enrichment in one of two ways to meet your specific needs, as Ariba Data Enrichment Service, provide Ariba with your real spend data and we return analysis-ready spending information to your database or as Ariba Data Enrichment Software where we train your team to use the software, load the knowledgebase with company-specific data, and classify and enrich the data. Ariba provides a quarterly download to capture all improvements to our central knowledge base.

Ariba Spend Visibility - Enterprise Package is the ideal solution for companies that want deep, rapid spend visibility without the effort of behind-the-firewall software implementation or involvement in the data enrichment process. This solution combines Ariba Analysis and Ariba Data Enrichment (as a service) in a fixed, hosted offering with active project management. Ariba fully manages your spend visibility program, ensuring that decision makers have access to fully cleansed, classified and enriched spend data for analysis through their web browser.

With Ariba Spend Visibility - Enterprise Package, companies can achieve:

Ariba Spend Visibility - Enterprise Package is a fixed, on-demand offering that can be purchased on a subscription basis. It provides continuous, hosted access to Ariba Analysis and includes data enrichment service to deliver meaningful, enriched spend data and project management. Ariba will define a clear, thorough service-level agreement that lets you know what to expect and when to expect it. A pilot package is also available.