Ariba Quarterly Updates
Ariba releases four primary updates per year that are meant to improve the user experience. These quarterly releases happen in February (Q1), May (Q2), August (Q3) and November (Q4). Within those four releases are dozens, sometimes as many as a hundred or more, feature updates. They also fall into three possible categories: Automatically On; Customer Configured; and Contact SAP Ariba Support to Enable. Here’s a roundup of the best features for each update.
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Ariba 2024 Q1 Release: Our Top Feature Picks
The SAP Ariba 2024 Q1 Release includes over 60 features. Most of the features in this release focus in the Upstream applications – SAP Strategic Sourcing Suite, SAP Ariba Supplier Risk,…
Ariba 2023 Q4 Release: Our Top Feature Picks
The SAP Ariba 2023 Q4 Release includes about 90 new features. The theme of this release centers around user convenience, many features are focused on improved user experience and SAP…
SAP Ariba 2023 Q3 Release: Our Top Feature Update Picks
There's big news in the SAP Ariba 2023 Q3 Release, but it's not a feature update, it's a net new module. We don't know much about it, but we do…
Ariba 2023 Q2 Release: Top 10 New Features
SAP’s 2023 Q2 Release includes about 80 new features. Unlike the 2023 Q1 release, there was nothing our consultants were super excited about. However, there are tweaks to various products,…
Critical Change to HTTP Protocols in Ariba are Coming!
SAP Ariba has announced an important change to HTTP protocols that could impact access to links in your Ariba systems. SAP plans to enforce the use of HTTPS links for…
Ariba 2023 Q1 Release: Top 10 New Features
The SAP Ariba 2023 Q1 Release includes 67 new features. There were a couple that our consultants absolutely considered to be game changers, but most of the updates were smaller…
Ariba 2022 Q4 Release: Best Downstream Features
This feature update includes 89 new features. On the downstream side, the biggest takeaway for us is in the number of updates and improvements to buying and invoicing and the…
Ariba 2022 Q4 Release: Best Upstream Features
This feature update, the final release of 2022, includes 89 new features. The biggest takeaway for us is in the number of updates and improvements to supplier management in general,…
SAP Ariba 2022 Q3 Release: Supply Chain Collaboration updates
SAP Ariba's Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) solution is one of the best options to improve flow, increase visibility, and react quickly to issues that may disrupt your supply chain. And…
SAP Ariba 2022 Q3 Release: Mandatory Updates
We’ve already hit the highlights of SAP Ariba’s 2022 Q3 release, on both the upstream and the downstream side. However, within that release there are two updates that become mandatory…
SAP Ariba 2022 Q3 Release: Best Downstream Features
The focus on this particular release seems to be communication and efficiency. Many of the updates allow buyers and suppliers to be able to track their own orders, confirmations or…
SAP Ariba 2022 Q3 Release: Best Upstream Features
The big news for this release is the increased focus on improving the Guided Sourcing to have more of the functions and features associated with standard sourcing. There are also…