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To: Wizard who wrote (200)	7/28/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: William F. Wager, Jr.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2110

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.'' ********************************************************************** Also got Sonoco and Inacom biz today. --Bill