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Today, the inaugural Spend Matters SolutionMap Customer Insights report features reviews from SAP Ariba’s customers. We are taking a deeper look into our SolutionMap database, which ranks providers in the marketplace according to their capabilities and their customers’ reviews of the companies. SolutionMap has more than 900 customer reviews, and we’d like to share that insight for a few providers, beginning with SAP Ariba. (SolutionMap Insider subscribers can see the reports, but non-subscribers can see a sample report in this story.) The Customer Insights summary includes ratings to what degree the vendor meets user expectations, three key differentiators for the vendor and a list of quotes about the vendor’s greatest strengths.

Authored by Jason Busch and Pierre Mitchell The four primary leads here on the Spend Matters research team have been busy attending and speaking at […]

Please click here for the first part of this interview. Spend Matters:  Ariba's fees look inexpensive compared with p-cards. What's the difference for suppliers? Purchasing […]

Earlier this month at Ariba Live, Kimberly-Clark’s Richard Roe (Project Lead for e-Invoicing and Ordering) gave some background on his company’s supplier enablement and connectivity […]

Purchasing Insight’s Pete Loughlin recently published a supplier network fee modeler. We covered its launch last week on Spend Matters. Supplier network fees are an […]

This year’s Sapphire conference has been extremely interesting, not to mention big, with 80,000 users attending on-premise or virtually! It’s been a while since I […]

“If you build it, they will come” has been a frequent refrain since the early days of supplier (and business) networks, going back to Commerce […]

It’s been a whirlwind few weeks for the US Spend Matters research and analyst team this spring conference and event season. All three members of […]

Over the past few months, Ariba (and SAP) have actively shared a number of procurement technology and infrastructure roadmap elements with clients, prospects, and partners. […]

Today we’ll look at: Product rationalization (Ariba) compared with product proliferation (Oracle); underlying technology and product assets; product innovation (and roadmap); and partnerships and ecosystem.

It’s rare for a large ERP/MRP and business applications deal between top enterprise software vendors (Oracle, SAP) to hinge on the comparative capabilities of the […]

It’s rare for a large ERP/MRP and business applications deal between top enterprise software vendors (Oracle, SAP) to hinge on the comparative capabilities of the procurement suite. The same holds true of evaluations involving a new generation of often (but not always) middle-market driven providers like Workday, NetSuite and others that have more limited source-to-pay capabilities.