Ariba Consulting

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Do you need to seamlessly integrate your Ariba solution to your backend systems?  Have a new Ariba module to implement?  Ready to expand to additional business units or abroad?  Would customizing your Ariba solution save more time, money and effort?

AT&T Hosting & Application Services will take you where you need to go. We’re experts in designing, implementing, customizing, upgrading, integrating and supporting the Ariba applications that manage your company’s spend management processes.

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Helping Your Ariba Modules Run Smoothly

We use best-practice methodologies and innovative toolkits to streamline implementations and upgrades, allowing you to quickly gain top benefits from your Ariba applications. Among tasks we can handle for you:

• Upgrade to Ariba Buyer 9r1 or implement and upgrade any Ariba module.
• Provide assessments to examine your readiness for 9r1, pinpoint opportunities to increase the value of your Ariba applications, or identify solutions to recurring performance problems.
• Seamlessly integrate with your backend systems, such as PeopleSoft HR, Oracle, JDE or SAP.
• Manage projects from end to end to fully automate your efforts, including supplier and user profile setup, catalog construction, commodity hierarchy, contract templates, documentation, workflow and user training.
• Conduct “before and after” user surveys to determine how well the application is working after it’s in place.
• Create a roadmap to improve user adoption, business processes, application support or return on investment.

Deploy Company-Wide and Globally

If you’re expanding worldwide, dealing with acquisitions, or rolling out your Ariba applications to additional locations, AT&T has the know-how to ease the process. For example, we can:

• Evaluate your solution and identify key requirements for successful expansion.
• Configure the application for multiple languages.
• Implement currency conversions, capture value-added taxes and handle other country-specific tasks.
• Connect with suppliers in diverse countries, including loading and supporting foreign-language catalogs.
• Train users in a global environment, deploying mobile training units as needed.

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• Implement and upgrade any Ariba module—including new version 9r1
• Integrate Ariba seamlessly to backend systems
• Provide consulting and customization to fully automate your system
• Manage projects from end to end
• Conduct onsite assessments to pinpoint functional and technical improvements
• Train users

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• Cross 'to-dos' off your task list by outsourcing hard-to-get-to items
• Save money with AT&T’s cost-effective services
• Expand globally so all your locations benefit from Ariba savings and efficiencies
• Implement proven best practices to improve efficiency and satisfaction
• Gain better use and performance from your technology solution

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• eCommerce Consulting

You have a business goal, problem or directive…and you know technology plays a role, but what should you do next?

• IBM WebSphere Commerce Consulting

Whether your goal is to boost sales, increase loyalty, automate processes, capture data, simplify transactions or make it easier for partners to do business with you, AT&T can help.

• Oracle Consulting

Do you want to streamline your business processes? Simplify tasks? Tie systems together?  Expand? Get more functionality?

• PeopleSoft Consulting

AT&T can help you assess options and put the right solution in place based on your budget, goals, software and infrastructure.