1. 9r2 Feature Candidate Discussion UpstreamCS
9r2 Feature Candidate Discussion Upstream
Jason Brown, Director, Solutions Management - On-Premise
Dave Morel, Sr. Manager, Solutions Management - Upstream
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2. Current Approved and Nominated Enhancement RequestsSP
Approved / Delivered
Nominated
SP19
Collaborative Requisitioning: Quick Enablement
Invoice Reconciliation via Approvals
SP20
Ability to Cancel PCO if Pcard Expired
Better Pcard Composition
Support Word 2010 for Contracts
Browser Certifications: FF7, IE9 (32-bit), Safari 5
Custom date Configuration
SP21
Support Office 2010
Browser Certifications: IE9 (64-bit)
Database Certification: Oracle 11gR2
Database Certification: DB2 9.7 existing platforms
SP22
Websphere 8 on AIX 6 (Java 6)
SP23
Websphere 8 on existing Platforms
Weblogic 10mp3 on existing Platforms
SP24
Websphere 8 on RHEL
Note: New recent requests: AIX 7, Peoplesoft 9.1
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3. Recent Candidate Enhancement Requests Upstream
Upstream Suite
Supplier Information Management
Contracts
Enhanced Contract Workspace Search
Sourcing
NDA Conditional RFPs
Suppliers who have accepted cannot decline
Enhanced Optimization with Excel
Japanese Auction
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4. Recent Candidate Enhancement Requests Suite / Infrastructure
Websphere 8 / RHEL 6
Websphere 7 / DB2 9.6
Better Handling of Failed Durables
Enhanced Permissions and Groups
Suite
Enhanced Search – Keyword Performance
Enhanced Notification
Ad-hoc Approver Functionality
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5. Existing Candidate Features Suite
Description
Requestor
Usability - Data Entry
Ability to check information submitted in the form before it is submitted. Includes the capability to have better hover help, indication of what is required, populating with default values, only allowing acceptable, valid selection in selection tool, configurable selection widget, better selection controller such as AJAX search
Various
Usability - Workflow
Ability to walk the user through the screen in a methodical manner so that they only need to enter smaller amounts / basic of data at a time with default values; have advanced version of information so the advanced user can add more detail; error checking validation on each field as well as each "wizard step" (all information on the step); confirmation page at the end;
Mobile Safari Support
Support the ability to use Ariba on Apple iPad
Mobile Capabilities for Approvals, Tasks, Notifications
Ability to support via web services (and possibly and application) for receiving notifications, approval approvals, tasks on a mobile device so no need to log into Ariba; This is more secure than HTML s and more user friendly and would increase adoption; Additional use case would be to create a Requisition
Various and Ariba
Hybrid - Sourcing
Seamless support for Ariba Buyer installed and Ariba Sourcing (Pro, Basic) On Demand
Hybrid - Spend Visibility
Seamless support for Ariba Buyer installed and Ariba Spend Visibility On Demand
Hybrid - Reporting
Seamless support for integrated reporting regardless of applications On Premise or On Demand. Would prefer if the synchronized data is On Premise.
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6. Existing Candidate Requested Features Infrastructure
Description
Requestor
Archiving
Ability to archive all data from a certain date for both upstream and downstream. Archiving means to extract all the records from a certain period onto an external media in a specified format and delete them from the system. The user can then take this external media and load it into a non-Ariba system for reporting. Once deleted out of the system, the information cannot be re-loaded back into Ariba. This includes all objects, attachments, history, etc.
Requested by >5 customers
Automated Testing Framework
Include Ariba's automated testing framework to decrease time for Service Pack and Point Release adoption. Would include the ability for IT users to create automated tests that can be run against a new SP or PR; This is the same ATF that Ariba uses today for its On-Demand Solutions.
Various and Ariba
More Safe Customizations
Inventory On-Premise customers unsafe customizations and make as many of the common ones as possible safe. The purpose is to decrease time for Service Pack and Point Release adoption.
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7. Future Upstream On-Demand Features
Product
Feature
Description
Analytics
New Supplier/Customer Fact
A new supplier/customer reporting fact table now allows reporting of supplier/customer organizations across projects, events, and contracts.
Sourcing
Grading and Scoring Usability Enhancements
The enhanced grading and scoring process allows graders to score participant responses in a quick and efficient manner. Graders can choose to grade participants by their response to a particular question or they can review all questions for one or two participants. In addition, graders now have the ability to export gradable content to Microsoft Excel, grade the content, and then import the graded content back in to Ariba Sourcing™.
Savings Form Approvals and Prototyping
This set of features provides more control over savings form processing in projects.  For example, a user can force an approval before publishing, set a prototype to be used for ad hoc form creation, control whether or not draft versions of forms are available in reports, and control whether or not projects can have more than one savings form.
Resend Event Invitations to Suppliers
Users now have the ability to resend invitations to participants with a single click when monitoring events and surveys.
Supplier Management
New Webservices Enhancements
This feature extends existing web services for the Ariba Contract Management™ solution by allowing you to automatically send contract header data when a contract workspace is created or published.
Spend Visibility
Enhanced Invoice and Purchase Order Fact
This feature segregates invoice and purchase order data for the Ariba Procurement and Invoicing solutions from the invoice and purchase order data for the Ariba Spend Visibility™ solution and stores it in separate, solution-specific fact tables for improved data load and reporting performance.
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8. Selected On-Demand Upstream Features
Upstream Suite
Multi-fact Reporting
Reporting
Workspace Message Board
Workspace Audit Trail
Advanced Approval Rules UI
Dynamic Team Member Rules
Sourcing
Advanced Discovery Integration
Event Pre-requisites
Enable/Disable Bidder Agreement
Conditional Content (in events and profiles)
Buyer-created Offline Excel Bid Sheet
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9. Q&A
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10. Don’t Miss the General Session Panel Today at 5:15 p.m.
Sustainable Supply Chains through Vested Trading Partner Relationships
Long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships between buyers and suppliers are increasingly being described as vested relationships, defined by a shared vision, agreed-upon desired outcomes, transparency, trust, and win-win. Developing such trading partner relationships pays dividends in many ways, particularly when your goal is ensuring a sustainable supply chain. Join Tim Minahan, chief marketing officer for Ariba, as he explores the concept with Kate Vitasek, author of Vested Outsourcing, and Tim McBride, general manager for global finance shared services at Microsoft. Mr. Minahan and his guests will engage with Ariba customers who will talk about such investments at their companies, and the impact they have on their comprehensive sustainability programs.
5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. – Florentine III and IV
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11. Appendix
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12. Pre-11s Key Upstream Cross-Product
Feature
Description
Multi-fact Reporting
The new multi-fact feature will allow reporting users to create more meaningful detail level reports by allowing content from multiple tables to be joined together based on defined keys. Additional features include, new intelligent UI to improve usability when creating multi-fact reports and left-outer join support.
Documentation: 11s1 Release Guide: p ; Each individual solution’s reporting guide: separate chapter (e.g., Appendix A in the Procurement Reporting Guide)
Reporting
Allows the user to schedule reports to run in background. Results from the background execution can also be ed to multiple users.
Documentation: Each individual solution’s reporting guide (e.g., Contract Reporting Guide: Chapter 5, p.52-54)
Workspace Message Board
Ability to send an from outlook, yahoo, etc directly to the workspace/project (all project types, contracts, sourcing, SIPM). We will scrape the contents and log in the workspace including documents. This is useful for tracking offline activity and storing in the project
Documentation: Contract Process Management Guide : Ch. 7 p
Workspace Audit Trail
Provides an audit trail of all activities in the projects (Contract, sourcing, SIPM) such as a task being added, project being changed/edited, team member being deleted..etc
Documentation: Contract Process Management Guide: Ch. 7 p.42-43
Advanced Approval Rules UI
Configurable approval rules provide an easy-to-use, graphical, browser-based management of all aspects of approval process creation and deployment. For each type of approvable document (also referred to as an approvable), you can build a flow diagram of approval rules, defining the conditions and actions for each rule. You can then test the approval process by previewing approval flows generated for selected test approvables.
Documentation: Project Template Guide: p.48-69
Dynamic Team Member Rules
The feature allows the administrator to dynamically assign team members to a project based upon rules.
Documentation: Project Template Guide: p.71-78
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13. Pre-11s Key Upstream Sourcing
Feature
Description
Advanced Discovery Integration
Automatic creation and monitoring of Discovery Posts from within an event. Ability to find and include in your Sourcing event Discovery Suppliers that meet event criterion.
Documentation: Event Management Guide; Chapter 9
Event Prerequisites
Prerequisite questions can prevent participants from accessing the event data or submitting a response until they have provide satisfactory answers. Buyer can control what information is hidden until the prerequisite questions have been cleared.
Documentation: Event Management Guide; Chapter 6, page 74
Enable/Disable Bidder Agreement
This feature provides the ability in the template to disable the Bidder Agreement so suppliers would not have to agree to it prior to participating in the event.
Documentation: Event Management Guide; Chapter 3, page 60
Conditional Content (in events and profiles)
This feature allows the buyer to define content to be hidden until responses to other questions meet a certain condition. The condition could be simple, based upon only one other content question, or complex, based upon responses to multiple questions.
Documentation: Event Management Guide; Chapter 6, page 120
Buyer-created offline Excel Bid Sheet
Custom offline response sheets enable you to create your own customized version of the Ariba Sourcing offline bid sheet. You have complete control over the customized offline response sheets you create and can utilize all the functionality available in Microsoft Excel. You only have to map cell values from your custom offline response sheet into the standard Ariba Sourcing offline bid sheet.
Documentation: Event Management Guide; Chapter 17, page 291
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