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Breakthrough in Spend Management. Ariba Spend Management solutions hosted by IBM are designed to deliver the breakthrough in Enterprise Spend Management that can help give your organization a strategic advantage. Built from the ground up to provide closed-loop management processes that can help you realize sustainable savings, the Ariba Spend Management solution includes: Find the savings with Ariba Analysis Helps companies view and evaluate spending across the entire organization so that they can make better business decisions. Ariba Analysis provides spend visibility into your spend categories to help identify new sourcing opportunities, measure supplier performance and monitor compliance. > Find the savings faster with IBM Application Hosting for Ariba Buyer managed infrastructure, analysis Get the savings with Ariba Enterprise Sourcing Provides an enterprisewide solution to help companies automate and streamline the entire sourcing process, from building requests for information and quotes, to locating and evaluating suppliers, to negotiating and managing contracts. Robust bidding mechanisms help buyers create an environment that delivers the best market price for purchases. Powerful reporting tools help identify trends and develop analyses and forecasts for strategic planning. > Get savings sooner with IBM Application Hosting for Ariba Enterprise Sourcing Keep the savings with Ariba Buyer Supports and automates the full purchasing process, from requisition to payment. In addition to restricting maverick buying and driving compliance with negotiated contracts, Ariba Buyer has the potential to deliver rapid cost savings by lowering transaction expenses, decreasing cycle times and leveraging supplier relationships. Solution components include: Ariba Contracts helps streamline and optimize the handling of complex commodity, long term contract and strategic negotiated purchases Ariba Invoice helps reduce the costs and errors of manual data entry, invoice matching and exception resolution Ariba Travel and Expense helps automate travel planning, expense reporting, approvals and management analysis. > Keep the savings coming with IBM Application Hosting for Ariba Buyer managed infrastructure
The fast track to fi nancial control While it s true that you must spend money to make money, achieving profi tability depends on spending less than you earn. Sounds simple enough. But in today s volatile business environment, companies must go beyond obvious spend reductions to gain strategic advantage. Controlling what your company spends and realizing sustainable, continuously improving savings is a challenge. That s why successful companies are embracing spend management as a critical tool for controlling resources and optimizing profi tability. With Ariba Spend Management, information, technology and processes come together to help you understand where your money goes, negotiate favorable terms with suppliers, and automate procurement to drive compliance and preserve savings. The result? A breakthrough in your ability to manage spend across the enterprise. Now, with IBM Application Hosting for Ariba Spend Management, you can quickly and cost-effectively deploy integrated sourcing and procurement solutions without a signifi cant up-front investment in new e-business infrastructure. IBM and Ariba have joined forces to deliver a fl exible, scalable e-business on demand solution that combines the proven infrastructure, industry know-how, application management expertise and attractive financing options of IBM with software from Ariba.
Realize benefi ts faster with e-business on demand IBM e-business on demand helps advance e-business initiatives faster by reducing the complexity and costs of information technology, improving implementation times and reducing risk. Acquiring the e-business infrastructure for your Ariba Spend Management applications as a service delivered over the network offers signifi cant potential time and cost advantages compared to in-house deployment. That means large companies can begin seeing the bottom-line benefits of Ariba Spend Management sooner and can potentially realize a faster return on investment. What s more, a networkdelivered hosted solution can help you extend participation to users, suppliers and systems, virtually anywhere they are located, and deploy consistent best practices across your enterprise. The value of Ariba Spend Management The Ariba spend-centric solution provides closed-loop management processes that are designed to deliver sustainable enterprisewide savings that improve over time, thereby helping you to: Pay less for goods, materials and services Shorten requisition-to-fulfi llment cycles dramatically Lower inventory costs Reduce off-contract ( maverick ) buying Achieve signifi cant reductions in administrative, transaction and reconciliation costs Improve supplier management Enforce compliance of preferred contracts Take advantage of Internet-based marketplaces, auctions and trading networks to access new suppliers around the world. Industry-leading application know-how, infrastructure and support from IBM Whether you are in the planning stages of an Ariba implementation or already have a project underway, working with IBM can help ensure that you have the most appropriate infrastructure for your Ariba applications. IBM Application Hosting offers a security-rich, reliable Web-enabled infrastructure for your Ariba applications plus the expert assistance to help assure that your mission-critical sourcing and procurement systems can deliver the performance and availability that you demand.
Most Ariba deployments require special technical expertise and new system management skills. With Application Hosting for Ariba Spend Management, IBM takes care of day-to-day technical application management as well as the underlying infrastructure. Your hosting solution includes application technical support, database and middleware management, monitoring and reporting, capacity and performance planning, backup and restore, and transition services. Plus, you have ready access to IBM professionals who are skilled in requirements analysis, application setup and confi guration, customization, legacy integration and ongoing management of Ariba applications. Pick the starting point that works for you You can begin with an integrated sourcing and procurement solution for a small number of users or a limited set of purchasing activities, then scale up to leverage benefi ts across your entire enterprise. Or you can start with a single spend management application, then add new functions step by step. Either way, IBM Application Hosting allows you to get started with little risk, gain experience and demonstrate value before launching a major spend management initiative. This pay as you grow fl exibility is the beauty of e-business on demand, allowing you to fi t IT to your unique requirements. At the same time, working with IBM can help assure that your hosted infrastructure will scale effortlessly, with virtually no disruptions to your day-to-day business operations. Extend your reach with value-added services IBM offers a single point of contact for business-to-business (B2B) services that can help you integrate new technology and reach suppliers and buyers around the world. From Internetbased data transport and transformation, IBM WebSphere MQ messaging and traditional electronic data interchange (EDI), to trading community enabling and world-class help desk support, IBM e-business Hosting value-added services can help you extend the value of Ariba Spend Management. IBM helps you get started with fl exible fi nancing IBM Global Financing offerings are available to help you implement Application Hosting for Ariba Spend Management solutions. We can offer fi nancing for software licenses (including licenses purchased directly from Ariba) and for one-time startup charges for hosting solutions. Flexible payment structures allow you to more effectively distribute initial costs and match payments to service benefi ts. For more information To learn more about IBM Global Services, call your IBM sales representative, or visit: ibm.com/services To learn more about IBM Application Hosting for Ariba Spend Management or other managed solutions from IBM e-business Hosting, visit: ibm.com/e-business/hosting
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