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JohnK
Product and Topic Expert
Product and Topic Expert


The message for you who are already using or planning to use market-leading SAP Ariba for your digital commerce, is the urgency to accelerate business outcomes and maximize consumption by effectively communicating, execute, and overcome challenges when managing their implementation and operations.

A key element you require to succeed on a day-to-day basis is to have all participants in the solution lifecycle on the same page as a collective group. Collaboration is what SAP Ariba is all about: buyers and suppliers connecting to get business done, discover new opportunities, collaborate on transactions and grow their relationships to provide a compelling user experience. To support these objectives, SAP Cloud ALM is fundamentally intended to seamlessly implement and operate intelligent cloud and hybrid business solutions including SAP Ariba, on a single, integrated cloud platform.

With SAP Cloud ALM, included with your cloud subscription, you can now benefit from an out-of-the-box, native cloud solution, designed as the central platform to manage your SAP-centric landscape that includes SAP Ariba, with content driven implementation and highly automated operations.

SAP Cloud ALM provides value to SAP Ariba customers and partners by:

  • Accelerate fit-to-standard workshops of integrated SAP Ariba processes with powerful project management capabilities

  • Reduce implementation and configuration efforts for SAP Ariba, for faster time-to-value, leveraging 7 scenarios with 37 solution processes + SAP Activate Roadmap tasks

  • Enable operational stability by providing a unified operations user experience using a common look-and-feel and handling experience

  • Improve business continuity through proactive monitoring and alerting of 4 key SAP Ariba scenarios: Sourcing, Procurement, Network and Cloud Integration Gateway messages



Convenient business process models help determine the scope of Fit-to-Standard workshops.



SAP Ariba messages are monitored to visualize the current integrations status, identify critical issues, and trigger corrective actions.


In a nutshell, customer and partner teams are being challenged to implement and operate SAP Ariba to increasingly high standards while also performing day-to-day activities. SAP Cloud ALM provides relief to implementation and operations teams with superior collaboration and higher efficiency. As a result, customers and partners together, can make better decisions, complete team tasks quicker, and take advantage of cross-team adoption transparency.

Realize the benefit many other customers have already experienced with SAP Cloud ALM. Act today to raise your efficiency, and enjoy a big organizational win by taking resilient, scalable and sustainable steps by leveraging SAP Cloud ALM for SAP Ariba.

Learn more about how SAP Ariba customers and partners can benefit from SAP Cloud ALM at the SAP Cloud ALM for SAP Ariba homepage.

As thought leaders for SAP Cloud ALM, we’re here to help!  Feel free to include your comments below or contact us at cloudalm@sap.com with any questions or requests for advice.

Thank you for visiting this blog post and for your partnership in making your experience and business outcome a world-class success!