Ariba Expands Global Channel Partnerships

Ariba, Inc, (NASDAQ: ARBA), the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions, is expanding its global channel partnerships. The company today announced agreements with two leading IT consultancies to resell its solutions across the Asia Pacific region. ECC International Group, a dynamic and innovative consulting and products company specializing in quality and process improvement across Southeast Asia, has signed on to resell Ariba’s offerings to customers throughout the Phillipines and Theta Edge Berhad, formerly known as Lityan Holdings Berhad, a Bursa-listed IT service provider, will do the same in Malaysia.

"In today’s economy, few things are more critical to survival than managing costs and cash,” said Susan England, Vice President, Channel Sales, Ariba. "Ariba provides companies with access to market-leading technology, expert capabilities and the world’s largest trading partner community which they can leverage to control costs, minimize risk and optimize cash flow and operations. We are pleased to be teaming with ECCI and Theta Edge to bring our solutions to market in the Asia Pacific and to helping companies throughout the region deliver results.”

Under the terms of its agreements with Ariba, ECCI and Theta Edge will offer Ariba’s cloud-based solutions to customers to help them create a standardized, best-practice approach to procurement that is tightly integrated with other business functions such as finance and aligned with overall corporate goals.

"The economic crisis has taught us a lot of things, the most common of them being that companies must procure goods and services for less," said Sreeni Narayanan, Managing Director of ECCI Group. "But it can’t be done in a vacuum. By joining forces with Ariba, we can provide companies with all of the tools they need to mature their procurement processes and collaborate with key stakeholders across the enterprise to create superior financial impact for their organizations."

"In joining forces with Ariba, Theta Edge can help companies in Malaysia drive better commerce through more efficient sourcing and spend management,” said Nor Badli Mohd Alias, Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Theta Edge Berhad. "Our experience in system integration capabilities and existing customer base and available prospects, coupled with Ariba’s proven solutions and processes provide companies throughout the country with everything needed to improve their cost structures and performance.”

Ariba delivers a comprehensive range of solutions designed to help companies drive more efficient, effective and collaborative business commerce through the Ariba Commerce Cloud, including:

• Market-leading applications for Spend Management, Collaborative Finance Management, and Sales Acceleration Management – all delivered as scalable, cost-effective and burden-free cloud-based services
• The Ariba Network, the world’s largest Web-based trading community, empowering more than 300,000 global businesses to discover, connect, and collaborate for better commerce
• Ariba Exchange, the industry-leading customer community where companies can network, share best practices, and collaborate with partners and peers
• Market, category, technical, strategic and other expert capabilities that can be accessed on-site or remotely via the Web as needed to support ever-changing business needs and objectives

Whether looking to control supply chain costs, increase sales, minimize risk, or enhance cash flow and operations, companies can do it better in the Ariba Commerce Cloud.

"With Ariba’s best-in-class software, services and network and the understanding that ECCI and Theta Edge have of their local markets, we can deliver a unique total solution that enables companies of all sizes across industries to drive fast and sustainable results across the sourcing & procurement lifecycle," said Sivakumar Thulasidoss, General Manager & Regional Group Director, South East Asia, Greater China & Korea, Ariba.

More than 300,000 companies – including 91 of the Fortune 100 – rely on the Ariba Commerce Cloud to manage their commerce activities. To learn more about the benefits that it can deliver for your organization, visit: www.ariba.com/commercecloud

About ECCI

ECC International is a dynamic professional training and business consulting company specialized at providing solutions in the areas of Management systems implementation IT process excellence, Best practices formulation, Business process excellence and e-learning development. ECCI runs its operations in 5 countries, with the Head Office in the Philippines and satellite offices in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and China, ECCI has worked with more than 600 clients (among which 80% are multinational companies) over the last 12 years of existence across the APAC region.

About Theta Edge Berhad

Theta Edge Berhad (formerly known as Lityan Holdings Berhad) is a member of the Tabung Haji Group, one of Malaysia’s leading IT service provider in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Established in 1984, the Group made its debut on the Second Board of the then Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in March 1994 and moved to the Main Board in November 1999 and is currently categorized under the Technology sector of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. Theta Edge’s enviable track record underscores its capability to undertake, deliver and manage large scale ICT projects both locally and overseas. The Group has evolved into a dynamic business group committed to be the best and most innovative ICT company in the world as a leading Systems Integrator, Advanced Technology and Telecommunications service provider. For more information, please visit www.theta-edge.com

About Ariba, Inc.

Ariba, Inc. is the leading provider of collaborative business commerce solutions. Ariba combines industry-leading software as a service (SaaS) technology to optimize the complete commerce lifecycle with the world's largest web-based community to discover, connect and collaborate with a global network of trading partners and expert capabilities to augment internal resources and skills, delivering everything needed to control costs, minimize risk, improve profits and enhance cash flow and operations – all in a cloud-based environment. Whether you’re buying, selling or managing cash, you can do it more efficiently and effectively in the Ariba® Commerce Cloud. Over 300,000 companies, including more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500, use Ariba’s solutions to drive more efficient inter-enterprise commerce. Why not join them? For more information on Ariba commerce solutions and the results they deliver, visit www.ariba.com

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