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5 unusual facts about ARIBA


ARBA

Ariba (Nasdaq stock symbol: ARBA), an American software and information technology services company

Ariba

Ariba's competitors include Wax Digital, PROACTIS, SAP, Bravosolution, MultiQuote, Oracle, GEP, Zycus, Rosslyn Analytics, Ivalua, Tradeshift, Coupa, and Emptoris.

Procurement had been a paper-based, labor-intensive, and inefficient process for large corporations; main competitors in this arena include GEP, Basware and iPayables.

Guidewire Software

The company was established in 2001 founded by six people: Ken Branson, James Kwak, John Raguin, and Marcus Ryu, from Ariba (and McKinsey, where James and Marcus had met), and John Seybold and Mark Shaw from Kana Software.

Reverse auction

In January 2004, Ariba announced its purchase of FreeMarkets for $493 million.


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Invoice processing

Automated invoice processing system vendors include Automation Centre, Basware, Ariba, docSTAR, Hyland Software, Kofax, Open Text, Perceptive Software, and ReadSoft.

John Frederick Fogerty

John Frederick Fogerty, ARIBA, was an Irish architect and engineer active in mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Limerick, London, Shropshire, Bournemouth, Pretoria, and Zambia.

Martin Roscheisen

- In 1997, Roscheisen, with Stanford professor Yoav Shoham, created TradingDynamics, an enterprise software company which was acquired by Ariba for $740 million in 2000.

Rex Distin Martienssen

Rex Distin Martienssen, ARIBA, CIAM, 26 February 1905 Queenstown - 23 August 1942 Pretoria, was a South African architect who was greatly influenced by Le Corbusier and spearheaded a modernist architectural movement in South Africa.

Supply management

According to Gartner, the research firm, leading providers of supply and contract management software include SAP, Ariba, GEP, BravoSolution, Ivalua, AECsoft, Rosslyn Analytics and Emptoris.


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