Business software giant SAP announced today that it will acquire Ariba’s cloud -based business commerce network for approximately $4.3 billion. SAP’s subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., is offering $45 per ...

Ariba is SAP’s business-to-business (B2B) sourcing and procurement software and buying network. Each day, the cloud-based platform handles billions of dollars’ worth of transactions as enterprises ...

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.

When Alexander Atzberger took on the role of president of SAP Ariba about two years ago, he told SAP CEO Bill McDermott he wanted to make Ariba a role model for the rest of the company. At Sapphire ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As a procurement professional, James Edward Johnson had embraced technology to turn a painful, manual process that made the eyes of his colleagues at Nielsen roll ...

SAP AG, largest maker of enterprise-applications software, agreed to buy Ariba Inc. for US$4.3-billion in the German company’s second multi-billion purchase in cloud computing to take on Oracle Corp.