Ariba Procurement tends to integrate best with other SAP products and is harder to work with if you have non-SAP products in your architecture. In the next release, SAP should add links to artificial intelligence or some other technology that makes it easy to calculate third-party and vendor risk. For example, it could be interesting to include a feature that allows monitoring of clients' processes to evaluate the risk of lock-in and other internal process risks.
The creation tool is for HANA, and I would like the solution to be more automatic.
SAP could make it easier for people to become SAP Ariba consultants within the SAP ecosystem.
They should make the solution more user-friendly. The users have to download the files whenever they want to view the data for analysis.
Ariba Procurement tends to integrate best with other SAP products and is harder to work with if you have non-SAP products in your architecture. In the next release, SAP should add links to artificial intelligence or some other technology that makes it easy to calculate third-party and vendor risk. For example, it could be interesting to include a feature that allows monitoring of clients' processes to evaluate the risk of lock-in and other internal process risks.