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Benefit from Upcoming Innovations in Procurement
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How we innovate
Agile adoption
Feature adoption driven by customers
Toggle “switch on” functionality – 89 features
Phased functionality rollout – Arches, SAP HANA platform
Co-innovation
Design thinking and co-innovation
Mobile – 3 design partners
Ariba Network Spot Buy – 4 design partners
Collaborative supply chain – 8 design partners
Readiness
Product-ready, customer-ready, Ariba Ready program
Early access program – 371 customers
Readiness webinar – 570 customers
Speed
Cloud speed
331 new features
12 major releases
22 fast trains
Quality
Always-on commerce
Uptime 99.9%+
Innovation over the last 12 months Ariba is an SAP company.
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SAP solution strategy for procurement
Deliver market-leading applications
with seamless end-to-end
integration and process flows
Embed business network-
enabled community, content, and
collaboration in applications
Provide on-premise customers with
ongoing innovations, hybrid scenarios,
and a non-disruptive path to the cloud
Offer a single
solution
Provide unified
customer experience
for all LoB procurement
solutions
Simplify the
solution portfolio
Keep the Ariba Network
as an open platform
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Total spend management solution from SAP
Ariba Network
Indirect and MRO
Travel and expense
User experience + SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Contingent labor and services
Direct and supply chain
Source and contract Request and buy Invoice and pay
End-to-end process management for all spend
categories, geographies, and industries
Complete enterprise spend visibility and
process orchestration
Network-enabled supplier collaboration and content
providing real-time insight
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Focus areas for Ariba innovation
User experience
Application innovation
Cloud platform
Ariba Network
Source and contract Request and buy Invoice and pay
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User experience (UX)
Deliver delightful user experience on desktop and mobile, across all procurement applications, using SAP Fiori UX principles
UX approach
Work anywhere Learn in context Modern UX principles
Mobile
More scenarios
Mobile first “continuity” concept
Search
Global search adoption
User interface
UI renewal
AP-centric invoice flows
Visualization for sellers enabled by SAP
Lumira software
Community
Supplier and buyer in situ
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The current
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Simple and clean, the renewal
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Focus areas for Ariba innovation
User experience
Application innovation
Cloud platform
Ariba Network
Source and contract Request and buy Invoice and pay
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Application innovation
Industries | End to end | Closed loop
Market leadership Spend coverage #1 $ Network-centric
Procurement
Demand aggregation
Total landed cost
Content validation, enrichment, and
reporting
Advance payments
Real-time budget check
ERS and recurring payments
AribaPay solution
Ariba Network Spot
Buy
Source and contract
Contract and ERP alignment
Risk management
Public sector including large line items
Network
One network
Seller value
Supply chain
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Procurement LoB applications and Ariba – update
First batch of customer transitions
underway
UX harmonization program
Common master data adaptor
PO and invoice process flows in
Q2/Q3 2015
First focus: SAP Cloud for Travel
and Expense solution and
Concur* product alignment
Planned invoice automation and
scanning integration
SAP S/4HANA
Native integration with Ariba Network
SRM and materials management
Extend suite adaptor to P2P
Integration of Ariba Network Spot Buy
and the Ariba Spot Quote solution
Fieldglass** integrations
+ SRM
*Concur is now part of SAP.
**Fieldglass is an SAP company.
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Focus areas for Ariba innovation
User experience
Application innovation
Cloud platform
Ariba Network
Source and contract Request and buy Invoice and pay
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Cloud platform strategy
Business network
Uptime and scalability
• Increase system limits
• Improve uptime
SAP HANA
• Performance
• Real-time analytics
SAP HANA Cloud Platform
• Common services
• Across all cloud applications
True “end-to-end”
• Process coverage
• No integration needed
Ariba applications Public cloud
SAP HANA
SAP HANA Cloud Platform
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Cloud platform innovation
Market leadership Spend coverage #1 $ Network-centric
Cloud integration Application and network
Seller integration using SAP HANA
Cloud Integration technology (proof of
concept)
SAP HANA Transaction enablement for applications
Network reporting, SAP Lumira software
Secure | Scalable
Opening the ecosystem APIs on network
SAP HANA Cloud Platform
Infrastructure Tenant-level data encryption
Extension of data privacy capabilities
Scalability
Globalization Globalization as a service
Right-to-left UI (Hebrew)
New invoice countries
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We value your input
Functionality and usability testing Early access programs and design partnerships
Connect
connect.ariba.com On-site customer visits Feature surveys
On-demand releases
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Ariba Exchange User Community
exchange.ariba.com
13s
Advisory councils and user groups
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