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|operating_income= $ -2.9 million (FY 2011)〔 |net_income= $ 33.2 million (FY 2011)〔 |assets= $ 913.1 million (FY 2011)〔 |equity= $ 647.9 million (FY 2011)〔 |num_employees = 2,432 (September 2011)〔|url=http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Ariba_(ARBA) | parent = SAP SE | homepage = (www.ariba.com ) | footnotes = | intl = }} Ariba is a software and information technology services company located in Sunnyvale, California. It was acquired by German software maker SAP SE for $4.3 billion in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ariba, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date May 22, 2012 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ariba, Form 8-K, Current Report, Filing Date Oct 1, 2012 )〕 == Company Beginnings == Ariba was founded in 1996〔Seeking Alpha. "(5 Cloud Computing Takeover Targets Revisited )." February 14, 2012. Retrieved March 14, 2012.〕 by Bobby Lent, Boris Putanec, Paul Touw, Rob Desantis, Ed Kinsey, Paul Hegarty, and Keith Krach〔(Ariba, Form S-1, Quarterly Report, Filing Date April 23, 1999 ), Retrieved August 15, 2013 〕 on the idea of using the Internet to enable companies to facilitate and improve the procurement process. Procurement had been a paper-based, labor-intensive, and inefficient process for large corporations; main competitors in this arena include Tungsten Network, GEP, Basware and iPayables. According to the company's website, Ariba provides "Spend Management solutions" which help companies "analyze, understand, and manage their corporate spending to achieve cost savings and business process efficiency." Currently, 94 of the Fortune 100 and more than 200,000 other companies use Ariba's SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions to manage their spend and commerce activities. Ariba was one of the first business-to-business Internet companies to go public (in 1999).〔Om Malik, Forbes. "(Ariba's next big challenge: managing hypergrowth )." August 03, 1999. RetriGEPeved March 14, 2012.〕 The company's stock more than tripled from the offering price on opening day,〔Larry Dignan, CNET News. "(Update: Ariba soars up 291 percent in IPO )." June 23, 1999. Retrieved December 13, 2011.〕〔Chris Nerney, InternetNews. "(Ariba IPO Keeps Hope Alive )." June 24, 1999. Retrieved December 13, 2011.〕 making the three-year-old company worth $6 billion. In 2000, the stock value continued to climb, and Ariba's market capitalization was as high as $40 billion.〔 By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News. "(O'Brien: Rising from the dot-com dead, Ariba surprises us all )." June 5, 2012. Retrieved May 7, 2013.〕 With the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Ariba's stock price fell dramatically to the low double digits in July 2001, where it remained for the rest of its life as an independent company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ariba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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