Ariba vs Emptoris

Ariba

Ariba Contract Management is one of the best solution available and if you SAP ERP then I think there is no second thought.

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Shalindra Singh

Principal, Enterprise Architect

BristleconeInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Emptoris

Any company who needs more monitoring and has frequent contract language changes due to negotiations with parties can utilize the Emptoris Contracts software to a greater extent. Key Business Questions that are answered on Emptoris:

More clause language.
Multiple language support
Maintenance of the contracts during the life cycle.
Bringing Legacy contracts into new system and its maintenance.
Monitoring the contract and important remainders based on contract.
Complex contract approval process due to the business complexity.
User roles and responsibilities - Privileges.
Version comparison difficulties.

Many more..There are good amount of features on Emptoris that can be used, which improves the business process cycle times.

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Mahesh Aluvala

Technical Lead

iGATE global solutionsInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Ariba

7.6

Emptoris

8.3

Contract creation

7.6

9.0

Contract templates

7.3

7.8

Clause library/saved fields

7.7

8.3

Guided logic

7.7

8.0

Ariba

7.3

Emptoris

7.9

Contract sharing

7.7

8.0

Contract editing

7.3

8.7

Collaborating on contracts

7.3

7.5

MS Word plug-in

6.4

7.5

Approval process

7.6

8.2

Interdepartmental workflows

7.6

7.8

Ariba

7.8

Emptoris

7.8

Contract database

7.7

Legacy contracts

8.1

7.4

Contract search

7.6

7.5

Contract milestone reminders & alerts

8.5

Custom contract reports

7.3

7.4

Tracking contract status

7.9

8.4

Compliance check

7.8

7.9

Pros

Ariba allows us to automate the workflow.
Ariba allows approvers to approve the contracts through email.
We can easily obtain reports from the system.

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Prabhjyot Singh

Team Lead

UnitedLex CorporationLegal Services, 201-500 employees

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Maintaining contracts as Templates, This feature has helped business to simplify the contract language maintenance and also helped simplify the maintenance of clause related elements that will be used across the product.
Easy way to create the contracts, Emptoris has provided the easy ways to create the contracts. We dont need any expertise for creating a contract , with interview module any one can do so by answering a simple set of questions.
Monitoring, This is the best feature I can really count on. The monitoring of the contract is made very easy with the simple configurations and can be monitored in different ways like workflows, email etc.
MS word as a plugin for editing the language, this is another best feature. Editng of contract language can be done by opening the contract language in a word document . It is a simple process - open, edit, save and close. This saves to Emptoris templates.

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Mahesh Aluvala

Technical Lead

iGATE global solutionsInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

The only point I can think that Ariba can improve is the performance issue. Sometimes it is getting very slow. Other than that Ariba functions very well.
In Ariba, assigning facilitators and monitors needs to be simplified.
The customer support team should have more admin rights.

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Prabhjyot Singh

Team Lead

UnitedLex CorporationLegal Services, 201-500 employees

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Sometimes the software can be a little slow.
Possibly create a short cut when certain addresses/name don't have be inputted so many times. Create an auto-entry.

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Temisha Lee

Administrative Assistant

Molina HealthcareHospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Ariba7.0

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Emptoris8.0

Based on 10 answers

A to Z solution!

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Verified User

Consultant in Other

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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Emptoris8.0

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Emptoris is a pretty robust tool overall. Learning curve is small and it is simple to use

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Digvijay Singh

Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of CompaniesEntertainment, 10,001+ employees

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Support

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Emptoris8.0

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The support team is responsive. On a few cases, issues take longer than usual to get resolved but mostly support is pretty good.

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Digvijay Singh

Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of CompaniesEntertainment, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

Ariba Contract Management is more user friendly than SAP. It does not have all the interative functionalities that Ariba has, such as the approval flows, etc. It is easier to train users to use Ariba Contract Management than it is to use SAP. Ariba is more affordable than the SAP licenses.

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