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Cisco Systems Completes Nationwide Deployment of Ariba E-Commerce Solution
16,000 Cisco Employees Have Access to Ariba Solution; Entire Company Procures
Goods and Services Via Intranet
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Ariba, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARBA - news), a leading provider of
business-to-business eCommerce solutions, today announced that Cisco Systems has completed
corporate-wide deployment of the Ariba® eCommerce solution. Since February, all of Cisco's more than
16,000 U.S. employees have had access to the system and are able to purchase operating resources or
non-production goods and services -- ranging from office supplies and capital equipment to consulting
services -- online with the Ariba Operating Resource Management System(TM) application through Cisco's
intranet.
''From the beginning, Cisco's goal has been to use intranet and Internet technology to provide strategic
business benefits to the bottom line,'' said Michele Sordal, senior manager of corporate supply at Cisco. ''The
Ariba solution has been an instrumental component in enabling us to attain our strategic procurement
objectives.''
Cisco spends approximately US$1 billion annually on operating resources, the goods and services used to run
its day-to-day business operations. The Ariba business-to-business eCommerce solution is intended to allow
Cisco to concentrate and leverage its buying power by capturing corporate-wide operating resource spending
at end users' desktops and directing it to pre-approved suppliers on the Ariba Network(TM) eCommerce
service.
''Our strategic objective is to continuously increase corporate efficiency,'' said Carolyn DePalmo, business
process design manager at Cisco. ''Ariba delivers a solution that fulfills our goals by providing better visibility
into our corporate spending and greater control over operating resource purchasing.''
At Cisco, Ariba ORMS(TM) is integrated with multiple, heterogeneous corporate systems, including enterprise
resource planning (ERP) applications from Oracle and the PeopleSoft human resource management system
(HRMS). This allows Cisco to take advantage of its existing systems and data, protecting its current IT
investments.
''Cisco is a leader in eCommerce and is a partner as well as a client,'' said Dave Rome, vice president of
marketing at Ariba. ''As a cornerstone Ariba client, Cisco's vision and early decision to implement Ariba
eCommerce solutions has resulted in a best-in-class procurement system and made its internal operations a
business-to-business eCommerce role model for others to follow.''
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