About Us
It all began years ago, with crayons, a paper tablecloth, and some imagination.
Over sandwiches at Quadrus Café in Menlo Park, seven colleagues talked about how much time and money businesses wasted whenever they bought goods and services. Their beef: cumbersome and costly paper-intensive processes. They sketched out on the table what an automated solution would have to look like:
It would have a walk-up user interface. It would integrate with enterprise financial systems. It would hook right up to the suppliers. It would run on this new thing called the Internet. And it would fundamentally change business models.
And that’s how Ariba was born. For more than 16 years now, we’ve helped companies like yours control spending and cut costs. We became widely recognized as the leading provider of spend management solutions.
But our solutions have evolved. See, we know that business commerce doesn’t happen within the four walls of your organization. It happens outside, in the space between you and your trading partners. Where business commerce has been notoriously costly and inefficient.
Until now. Ariba is today the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. We help companies extend their business commerce processes into the cloud, where they can use our solutions and the Ariba Network to work more efficiently and effectively with their trading partners, and drive more value whenever they’re buying, managing cash, or selling.
Today, the Ariba Network is the world’s largest trading partner community, home to more than 730,000 companies, including more than half of the Fortune 500. And over the next 24 hours, using our solutions and network, companies around the world will:
- Buy and sell nearly $822 million worth of goods and services
- Save over $82 million in supply costs
- Process more than 250,000 purchase orders and payments
- And, manage a whole host of other commerce collaborations, like discovering new business opportunities, negotiating contracts, and strengthening working capital.
Carrying On the Legacy
Of course, we saved that table paper. To us, it’s more than just a colorful first blueprint of something that gradually morphed into the company we are today. We look closely and see reflections of ourselves, and the values that make us who we are. We see teamwork, an essential part of our DNA. We see a commitment to customer success, achieved through a passion for excellence, initiative, and innovation. We see collaboration, rooted in respect for our customers and colleagues. And we see courage and integrity, striving for things that seem just out of reach, and realizing them by working ethically and honestly with our customers, partners, stakeholders, and each other.
So if you’re looking to control supply chain costs, increase sales, minimize risk, or enhance cash flow and operations, you’ve come to the right place. Because, quite simply, commerce is better with Ariba.
Learn more about Ariba’s solutions.
