Ariba is a software and information technology services company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a number of sales, support, and consulting offices worldwide. It is publicly traded. The focus of their products and services is cost savings in procurement via electronic commerce, also known as spend management.

Visibility solutions lets one build a data-warehouse of spend data and analyze the spending pattern. It can reveal opportunities for saving costs through strategic, tactical or operational level decisions. Ariba recently acquired Softface, a provider of spend analytics, thereby strengthening its visibility solution.

Sourcing solutions lets one plan and manage sourcing at a low cost. It comes with features like supplier evaluation, supplier selection, auctions and reverse auctions. Latest acquisition of FreeMarkets strengthens its position in sourcing solution.

External links

• Ariba Inc. - official website
• Stock quote from Yahoo!
• Ariba solution and partner overview

Companies based in California | Computer companies of the United States