Ariba Services

Ariba understands that spend management expertise, support, and administration are critical components for promoting user adoption and maintaining a successful spend management production environment. Ariba Services are focused on the entire Spend Management continuum and designed to integrate with and leverage our technology platform. Our expertise helps manage project prioritization in order to accelerate results and build momentum for subsequent project phases.

Ariba Services are focused on delivering sustainable, company-wide capability and rapid results. Our capabilities include:

• Strategic Consulting. Enables strategic decision making, organizational assessment, process design, and performance improvement
• Category Expertise. Delivers market insight, global support, supply market access, and programs that provide guidance based on best practices across industry leading companies
• Solution Deployment. Executes tailored implementations to meet specific requirements leveraging best practices and lessons learned from hundreds of previous projects
• Sourcing Services. Expand the sourcing capabilities of organizations, accelerate adoption of deployed sourcing tools and deliver bottom-line savings by tackling complex projects and advanced sourcing initiatives
• Education and Change Management. Provides expert training and education solutions as well as services to manage the organizational impacts associated with Spend Management technology and business processes to support the adoption and skills needed for success with Ariba Spend Management Solutions
• Ongoing Support. Provides premier technical support, upgrade, application management and hosting services to ensure the successful adoption of your organization's Ariba Spend Management Solutions

To help you identify opportunities and accelerate results, Ariba Services can assist you with unmatched levels of speed, sustainability, coverage and flexibility:

• Speed. Fast access to spend management knowledge with quick turnaround and rapid delivery, management and reporting
• Sustainability. Transfers knowledge into your organization, drives enablement and knowledge retention, and adapts as your needs change
• Coverage. Provides information on hundreds of categories and supply markets, available across all services and software
• Flexibility. Delivers best practices captured and transferred for multiple services, with integration across multiple platforms and technology