“Partnering with Amazon Business is a bold step aligned with our strategy to make SAP Business Network more open so that users can more easily and compliantly buy the goods required to do their work and keep their businesses running,” said Tony Harris, global vice president, business network solutions, SAP. Integrating Amazon Business into the guided buying capability within the SAP Ariba solution experience helps simplify the purchase of general business goods while providing users with hundreds of millions of new items. With this partnership and technology integration, Amazon Business becomes a source of supply for Spot Buy, a capability within SAP Ariba solutions for users to purchase items from trusted suppliers. The partnership will also focus on assisting with compliance with corporate purchasing policies. So to Ariba then, SAP has this week announced it is partnering with Amazon Business in a move that it hopes will enable employees to tap into hundreds of millions of items on Amazon’s business purchasing site directly from within SAP Ariba.

Nothing to do with the now politically incorrect Speedy Gonzales and his cry of ¡Arriba, arriba! ¡Ándale, ándale! - the pre-SAP development team called the product Ariba, because it was easy to pronounce and spell. With some homegrown products (SAP HANA, SAP Leonardo etc.) and some acquired brands (SuccessFactors, Concur, Fieldglass, Hybris etc.) that now sport their “an SAP company” livery, the SAP smörgåsbord of software products looks like a comprehensive (if possibly/arguably/allegedly tough to integrate) selection pack.Īmong the acquired children at the SAP table is SAP Ariba, a procurement software product SAP bought in 2012 for just over US$4bn.

There’s a fleeting moment during SAP technology conference keynotes when the company posts up a slide that displays all its brands.

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